In February, five opposition activists were acquitted after being charged for insulting the emir on Twitter.
The new Al Jazeera channel, like the original, is heavily subsidized by the emir of Qatar.
The Emir provided me insights into how he sees reform evolving throughout the region.
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Opposition leaders have called on the emir to announce a date for the upcoming parliamentary elections.
If he is convicted Kuwait will explode in a bad way against the Emir.
Backed by his cousin, the emir, the sheikh is building a photography museum in Qatar.
Al-Hirbi's tweet quoted a line by a dissident poet interpreted as insulting the emir.
When not attending to military matters, the emir dealt with a variety of requests.
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Many people doubt whether the new council will dare challenge the emir or his ministers.
Last year, a group of clerics petitioned the emir to prohibit women from standing.
Whatever the emir's motives in holding an election, most Qataris took to campaigning with glee.
His press officer, Ali Abdel Emir, fled the country this week after an assassination attempt.
The old emir watches from abroad, rich but powerless, after a nominal reconciliation with his son.
Is power as stated in the constitution for the public, or is it contrary to the constitution for the Emir?
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Mr Barrak had first been detained in October on suspicion of "undermining the status of the emir".
The emir offers to meet U.S. gas needs, as his nation steps up its ties to Washington.
Abou Zeid had been promoted by the emir of AQIM -- and fellow Algerian -- Abdelmalek Droukdel.
Mr Erdogan is said to have lobbied the emir of Qatar personally to invest in the deal.
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The emir of Qatar, Hamid bin Khalifa Al Thani, appointed his cousin as chairman of Al Jazeera.
Even veteran dissidents concede that the atmosphere has improved, and that the emir's gestures have created optimism.
The progressive Emir-heir tries to duck out from under western hegemony and gets assassinated by a guided missile.
The deposed emir, a man reluctant to modernise his country, was offered sanctuary by the United Arab Emirates.
On the other hand, it makes no difference to the emir of Qatar because it's chump change to him.
Today, the Kuwaiti parliament resolved a nine-day political crisis of leadership, following the death of there emir in January.
Another fake text message suggested the wife of Qatar's emir, Sheikha Moza bint Nasser Al Missned, had been wounded.
His crime: to have written a poem which was deemed to have insulted the emir and the ruling family.
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Dissidents claim that they are turned away from the emir's much-publicised public audiences.
It has become a cornerstone of Bosniak identity, says Emir Suljagic, one of the younger generation of Bosnian politicians.
The new emir promised his people a free press and, heaven forbid, a democratically elected parliament in due course.
And Emir Strati punished Well when he struck the winner after 66 minutes.
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