But unfortunately this is becoming the norm here.
Late last year I had a female friend awake to find a man standing above her in her bedroom as she slept. She screamed, he fled, nothing was stolen. But he crept in through a sliding glass window (that didn't have a bar stuck into place to block it from being opened). Later she found that a large rock had been pulled under another window -- apparently the intruder had been watching her.
I also recently heard (from a source I cannot assail) of a young Irish woman, here in Doha, who was recently found weeks after she was abducted and kept captive (and presumably sexually assaulted repeatedly) by a man she knew here.
None of this stuff ever makes the press/news in Doha.
They're too worried about bad publicity. But what they fail to realize is that by informing the public, people can then arm themselves better and take precautions.
Nobody expects Doha to NOT have any crime; that's not resonable. Wejust want a realistic picture of life here. The media and the government need to allow articles about this stuff to be published. When they don't, rumor and gossip become the main source of info for residents, and trust me, the country comes off looking far worse when that happens.
But unfortunately this is becoming the norm here.
Late last year I had a female friend awake to find a man standing above her in her bedroom as she slept. She screamed, he fled, nothing was stolen. But he crept in through a sliding glass window (that didn't have a bar stuck into place to block it from being opened). Later she found that a large rock had been pulled under another window -- apparently the intruder had been watching her.
I also recently heard (from a source I cannot assail) of a young Irish woman, here in Doha, who was recently found weeks after she was abducted and kept captive (and presumably sexually assaulted repeatedly) by a man she knew here.
None of this stuff ever makes the press/news in Doha.
They're too worried about bad publicity. But what they fail to realize is that by informing the public, people can then arm themselves better and take precautions.
Nobody expects Doha to NOT have any crime; that's not resonable. Wejust want a realistic picture of life here. The media and the government need to allow articles about this stuff to be published. When they don't, rumor and gossip become the main source of info for residents, and trust me, the country comes off looking far worse when that happens.