Karki and Shrestha have been in prison for 15 years, Uruwa for 7 years, in the murder case of a Nepali.
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Three Nepalese citizens are serving life sentences in Qatar. A Qatari court has sentenced them to life imprisonment for their involvement in an "international murder".
Qatar considers incidents involving more than one country as international murder. According to details received from Qatari authorities, Nepali citizens Karki, Shrestha and Uruwa have been sentenced to life imprisonment. Karki and Shrestha have been in prison since November 5, 2010. They are the longest-serving of the approximately 70 Nepalese prisoners in Qatari prisons.
Both Karki and Shrestha were convicted in the case of murdering a Nepali citizen. The court has also ordered both of them to pay blood money of 260,000 riyals (about 10 million rupees) each to the victim. However, they have not been able to pay the amount to the victim so far.
Similarly, Uruwa has been in prison since October 30, 2018. The amount of blood money to be paid to the victim in his case has not yet been determined. It has not been revealed which country's citizens he killed.
The Nepali Embassy in Doha has stated that it is aware of the Nepali citizens who have been sentenced to life imprisonment. “We are in regular contact with all prisoners in prison,” an embassy official told Ikantipur. “From time to time, embassy representatives visit prisons and meet with prisoners.”
According to Qatar’s main penal code (Law No. 10, 2004), life imprisonment is a sentence that keeps the convict in prison for the rest of his life. It is interpreted as an alternative to the death penalty. The law does not explicitly mention a provision for converting life imprisonment into a sentence with release after a certain number of years.
