Security authorities question two British men

QNA

Doha

The Foreign Ministry has confirmed that two British men, who were arrested by security authorities on August 31, are being interrogated for violating the provisions of Qatar’s laws.

The director of the Department of Consular Affairs at the Foreign Ministry, in a statement yesterday, said that all of the actions that had been taken against the two Britons, identified as Krishna Upadhyaya and Ghimire Gundev,  were consistent with the principles of human rights enshrined in the Constitution and the laws of the State of Qatar. 

He pointed out that the British embassy in Doha had visited the two men to ascertain their situation, noting “to the existence of direct contact between the Qatari Foreign Ministry and the investigating authorities with the British embassy in Doha in this regard”.