Share Share on Twitter Until almost five months ago, Lukman Thalib was an accomplished public health professor working passionately to fight the coronavirus pandemic in Qatar. But, according to his daughter Maryam Talib, that all changed on the afternoon of 27 July when at least six people in plain clothes barged into his security complex - “kidnapping style” - and arrested Professor Thalib, 58, and his son, Ismail Talib, 24. “No words, no paper, no charge, nothing was presented,” she told SBS News from Turkey. Ms Talib’s mother and younger sister were also at the complex when the arrests took place. “It shook us to our core … we’ve got absolutely no idea what’s been going on. Why on earth things have unfolded the way they are. I’m just hoping it’s a big mistake.”