"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing". It amazes me how some QLers constantly attack Qatar out of ignorance, how can you attack the judicature based on a few edited articles in an English papers when your sole source is an english papers in an Arabic country,at least learn something about the people,culture and language. To stay on topic, most of these "lenient" cases are already resolved outside the court,so charges are dropped already.The sentence you hear about it is called "Altaazir" that's why it may sound very lenient compared to where you come from.