http://ktep.org en http://ktep.org/post/qatari-poet-sentenced-life-prison-writing Transcript <p>AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: <p>Last week in the country of Qatar, a poet was sentenced to life in prison. That was the punishment for writing verse that the country's ruler found insulting. The poet's name is Mohammed Ajami, and his poem skewered governments across the region. At one point, it declared: We are all Tunisia in the face of the repressive elite.<p>Well, commentator Andrei Codrescu says this case shows a brazen bit of hypocrisy.<p>ANDREI CODRESCU, BYLINE: The Emir of Qatar is a tolerant man. Tue, 04 Dec 2012 23:05:00 +0000 Andrei Codrescu 6431 at http://ktep.org