28. Reports indicated that Qatari State security and police started to closely surveille members of the al-Ghufran clan in particular, including by posting observers outside of specific mosques. 29. From mid-2005 onward, the Qatari government pressured people by other means, such as denying those stripped of their nationality of the right to work and promising people that if they leave and acquire another nationality the government would restore their original Qatari nationality. 30. Following publication of the decree, the government officials demanded thousands of members of the al-Ghufran clan leave Qatar; a great many – the exact number is not known - refused outright or sought to delay having to leave. 31. Starting in October 2004, and lasting to September 2005, the government cut electricity and water supplies to communities and to specific houses, ignoring whether there were any vulnerable people who might need continued water and electricity supplies who resided in the premises targeted. Generally, no advance notice was given prior to the cut of such services. 32. Some families resisted police action to remove them from their dwellings, leading to dissent amongst police personnel and the halt of forcible removals, but a small number of people – exact number not known – were imprisoned. One of those detained, 21 at the time, was Saleh Mohammad al-Marri, detained for three days in 2005. He was, however, a US national and was able to leave for the US using that passport. From June 2005 to September 2005, the authorities detained nine people for three months at the Central Jail under Law No.17 of 2002, on [the] Protection of Community, which is used to “protect society”.30 33. The purpose of this conduct was to force members of the al-Ghufran clan to leave Qatar and/or to renounce their citizenship of Qatar and turn in documents to the Passports and Immigration Department of the capital in Doha both their civil ID and passports and other Qatari identification. As this was the only centre able to provide concrete information regarding one’s fate, most people facing removal of their citizenship went to this office, including the Manah Saleh al-Kohla. She visited the office in 2005 and asked to leave the country to Saudi Arabia. Officials instructed her to bring a guarantor to bring the documents back once she was in Saudi Arabia but even once arrived there; the government did not return the documents and she remains in Saudi Arabia. 34. The government expelled other members of the community from specific jobs, notably parts of the civil service and, especially, the military. Almost all of the al-Ghufran clan members employed in the military were transferred to Civil Defence. As they were told that the move was “just orders”, it appears that there are no written documents showing the orders, which were verbally transmitted. 30 Under the provisions of Law No. 17 of 2002, on [the] Protection of Community, the Minister of Interior has the right to order the detention of a citizen up to six months and can be extended without referral to court. See: http://www.almeezan.qa/LawArticles.aspx?LawTreeSectionID=1180&lawId=116&language=en 7