Prague court closes case of Qatari Prince Hamid bin Abdal Sani

A Prague district court has closed the case of Qatari Prince Hamid bin Abdal Sani who was tried in absentia in the Czech Republic on charges of sex abuse. Between 2001 and 2004 the prince allegedly paid to have sex with four girls under 15. A court sentenced him to 2.5 years in absentia due to the fact that he was in the meantime extradited to Qatar on the promise that he would be prosecuted there. Local prosecution dropped the case shortly after. In 2015 a Prague court lowered Sani’s sentence to 11 months and 8 days, the exact amount of time the prince spent in a Czech jail before his extradition. The international arrest warrant issued on him has also been cancelled.