Khalid AlHail

Khalid AlHail is a Qatari businessman and exiled political leader. AlHail set up the Qatari National Democratic Party becoming its President in the process. He also served as the founder and spokesman for the Youth Movement to Save Qatar, a pressure group which opposes Qatar’s ruling system and calling for greater political freedoms in Qatar.
AlHail enjoyed a career in banking and finance in a number of Qatari businesses at home and overseas. After speaking out publicly against Qatar’s political regime, AlHail claims that he and his businesses started to be harassed by government media and Qatar’s internal security service. As a result, he left Qatar in 2013.

In March 2014, having received guarantees from the Qatar government that he would be allowed to practice his rights to free expression within the country, he was persuaded to return.

However, on arrival, he was detained and imprisoned by the state police. There, having been subjected to physical violence and threats of life imprisonment, he was forced to sign an agreement that he would stop publicly opposing Qatar’s political regime. He was subsequently released and left the country ending up in London.
In June 2014, he told a conference organised by the Youth Movement to Save Qatar in Cairo that there were 612 prominent Qataris which had participated in the opposition movement’s charter.
AlHail claims the of Qatari nationals, including some disaffected members of the ruling family, who oppose Qatar’s support and financing of the Muslim Brotherhood.
The Qatar National Democratic Party appears to be the first political party that been established with a presence in a country where political parties are banned. [https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2015/qatar#.Va_VwvlViko Freedom House rates Qatar] as "Not Free" and, on a 1-7 scale (1 being the most "free") rates the country a 6 for political rights.
AlHail publicly echoed claims made by the Daily Telegraph that the Qatari government was directly involved in the funding of terror. He also used social media to repeat claims that Qatar supports financially the Muslim Brotherhood across the region and paid bribes to host the 2022 World Cup.

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