Australian academic ‘haunted’ by possibility of false confession during torture in Qatar

Exclusive: Lukman Thalib says he struggles to recall what he said during calculated' torture

An Australian public health professor alleges he told Australian consulate staff he was being tortured and held without charge they visited him in a Qatari prison, but says they did nothing to help.

Biostatistician Prof Lukman Thalib, 58, was arrested at his Doha home and detained for five months without charge in Qatar, where he had been working as acting head of Qatar University's public health department.