DOHA: One of the two young Qatari nationals taken into custody by UAE authorities last year has been released.
Youssef Abdussamad Ali Al Mulla, 30, has safely returned home, Al Sharq reported yesterday quoting “informed” sources.
Comments on local social media said he was welcomed back, with people hoping the other Qatari would be freed soon.
Al Mulla, according to some social media commentators, was dropped in Al Sila at the UAE-Qatar border yesterday.
“He was dumped there,” some tweeters claimed. His photographs taken at regular intervals during his journey back home were also posted on social media.
Al Mulla and friend Hamad Ali Mohamed Ali Al Hamadi, 33, had gone missing late last June following a road trip to the UAE.
It emerged almost three months later that they were arrested by UAE authorities at Ghuraifat check post on their way to the UAE. The families of both Qataris said the duo had been to the UAE several times and were surprised why they were taken into custody this time.
Al Sharq said Qatari authorities had been trying their best to get them released and one of them was eventually back home.The daily said that while they were in the UAE jail, they were not allowed to see relatives or friends, and nor was the reason for their arrest stated by the UAE authorities.
In February 2013, a Qatari doctor, Mehmoud Al Jaidah, was arrested at Dubai international airport while he was en route to Doha.
He was later sentenced to seven years in jail on charges of supporting a banned local organisation.
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