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SUNDAY 30 AUGUST 2015 • 15 Dhul-Qa’da 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6538 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Fire at Doha Port Emadi hails Al Jazeera Fitch report slams jailing on Qatar’s economy DOHA: Following the conclu- of scribes sion of a regular review, Fitch Ratings has affirmed Qatar’s long-term foreign currency sov- Channel to intensify campaign ereign rating at “AA”, the third highest on the rating scale, with DOHA: Al Jazeera yester- independence instead of defend- a stable outlook. day condemned the sentenc- ing liberty and the free and fair This means that Qatar is ing of three of its journalists media.” Al Jazeera’s head of inter- among a select group of countries — Egyptian Baher Mohamed, national and media relations, considered to be extremely cred- Canadian Mohamed Fahmy and Osama Saeed, called the verdict itworthy. Earlier this year, both Australian Peter Greste — by an “grotesque”. Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s Egyptian court to three years Al Jazeera said that the “whole affirmed Qatar’s rating and its in jail as a “deliberate attack case has been politicised and has stable outlook. on media freedom”, and said it not been conducted in free and Firefighters at work after a small fire broke out at the Doha Port yesterday. The cause of the fire was not known Fitch’s rating report notes would appeal the verdict. fair manner”. “Today’s verdict and no casualties were reported. SALIM MATRAMKOT that Qatar’s strengths include a Officials of Al Jazeera told defies logic and common sense,” strong external position, a healthy reporters at a news briefing here said Dr Mostefa Souag, Al banking sector and budget sur- yesterday that an appeal would Jazeera Media Network’s acting pluses that are well above those be filed as soon as the Cairo court director-general. of similarly rated countries. Fitch has explained its verdict. “Our colleagues Baher notes that Qatar is “implement- The TV network also vowed to Mohamed and Mohamed Fahmy ing measures to maintain fiscal intensify its campaign to get its will now have to return to prison, Clerics urge youth to marry sustainability” and can “rely on journalists freed. and Peter Greste is sentenced in large fiscal and external buffers” Legal officer of the network absentia. There is no evidence in adjusting to the new energy Farah Al Muftah said at the news proving that our colleagues in price environment. event that Al Jazeera would not any way fabricated news or aided divorced women, widows The report also highlighted the give up. She said once details of or abetted terrorist organizations improvements in the budget proc- the verdict are had an appeal and at no point during the long DOHA: Clerics and community second marriage for women was victim, there is no harm in mar- ess, debt management policies and would be filed in Egypt’s highest drawn-out retrial did any of the elders have called on men eligible not so welcome. The East as a rying her.” the review of capital projects, that court, the Court of Cassation. unfounded allegation stand up to to marry to pick younger widows whole looked down upon second Mohamed Saad Al Sulaiti, was carried out by the Public After the details are released scrutiny”. and divorcees as their wives. marriage of women. yet another Qatari, said widows Investment Management unit at there would be 60 days to file an Al Jazeera will continue to call Young men wanting to marry But the daily interviewed sev- and divorced women are part of the Ministry of Finance. appeal in the court of cassation, for the freedom of its journal- must change their attitude eral young Qatari men who said “our community” and they also Minister of Finance H E Ali she said. ists and an end to the ordeal for towards widows and divorced they would gladly pick a young have rights. “They should not be Sherif Al Emadi, welcomed the Giles Trendle, acting man- Baher, Peter and Mohamed and women and should pick them as widow or divorcee as wife if she socially isolated.” publication of the report and said: aging director of Al Jazeera six Al Jazeera staff who were their life partners. was a good person. Mubarak Al Buanain said to “The fact that Qatar remains English, said at the news con- sentenced in absentia, said the Local Arabic daily Al Arab cited Ali bin Khalifa said that if he think about widows and divor- highly rated by Fitch and other rat- ference that the company was in statement. some study in a report yesterday marries he wouldn’t be both- cees as prospective life partner ing agencies is a testimony to the a state of shock. He added that The support shown for Baher, which suggested that 30 percent ered if his prospective wife is a is a noble thought. strength of its economy, its finan- international campaign to get Peter and Mohamed has been of divorced women in Qatar are widow or divorcee as long as she “This attitude should be encour- cial position and the prudent poli- the journalists released will be loud and unified and has come happy after their marriage ended. is a person of good character and aged in the community. Youths cies adopted by the government.” re-launched and intensified. from every corner of the world Another 30 percent wanted to homely. “The woman must be a should be made aware and encour- The affirmation of Qatar’s rat- “Today’s (yesterday’s) ver- — from world leaders, journalists, marry again, while 20 percent good house-maker,” said Ali in aged to marry these vulnerable ing is notable at a time when oil dict is yet another deliberate human rights organisations and were regretful and thought that remarks to the daily. women,” he said. This would help exporting countries are witness- attack on press freedom,” he the general public, Souag said. they were better off when married. Jaber Mohamed said men gen- widows and divorcees to be part of ing pressure due to the decline in said. “It is a dark day for the “Journalism is not a crime”. The daily said that while soci- erally want their first wives to the social mainstream again. They international energy prices. Egyptian judiciary. It (the judi- Continued on page 5 ety looked differently at men be virgin. “However, if a divorcee would be rehabilitated. Continued on page 2 ciary) has compromised its own THE PENINSULA marrying for the second time, is educated and good and was a THE PENINSULA QNA US policeman Three children rescued shot dead from van in Austria near Houston VIENNA: Three young chil- would not transport animals dren suffering from dehydration under these conditions on our WASHINGTON: A sheriff’s and close to death have been roads in Austria,” said Furtner, deputy was gunned down from rescued from a van crammed refering to Friday’s discovery. behind and shot multiple times with 26 refugees from Syria, Austria lies on the way from at close range while fueling his Afghanistan and Bangladesh, poorer countries in southern and patrol car in a “cold-blooded Austrian police said yesterday. eastern Europe where many refu- assassination,” Texas authorities The two girls and a boy, aged gees first land, such as Greece, to said yesterday, appealing for help five and six, were found in a dire more prosperous nations in the in tracking down the killer. state when police stopped the north and west. The fatal shooting prompted an vehicle after a chase near the The 29-year-old Romanian emotional reaction from local offi- Austrian town of St. Peter am driver of the van found on Friday, cials, who pointed their finger at Hart on the border with Germany, registered in Romania, was ramped-up rhetoric against police a police spokesman said. They are arrested. The children and their officers in the United States in recovering in hospital. parents were taken to the hospital protests against perceived police “The emergency doctor told us in Braunau, where they are now brutality, although they had yet they would not have made it much in a stable condition. to identify a suspect. longer - two, maybe three hours,” Among the dead found in the A gunman came up from said David Furtner, police spokes- lorry on Thursday, four were behind and opened fire on Darren Lebanese activists carry placards during a demonstration against the ongoing garbage crisis and demanding the man for Upper Austria province. children, one of them a baby girl, Goforth, 47, in a Houston area gas resignation of the government, in Beirut yesterday. The incident follows the discov- police said on Saturday. They station on Friday night, police ery of the corpses of 71 refugees in were presumed to be from Syria - said. “The deputy then fell to the an abandoned lorry on an Austrian in the grip of a four-year-old civil ground and the suspect then con- Lebanese in massive ‘You Stink’ rally highway on Thursday - victims of war - or possibly Afghanistan. tinued over to him and shot the an unfolding tragedy as refugees Three Bulgarians and an deputy again multiple times as he BEIRUT: Thousands rallied in downtown Beirut itself “You Stink,” a catchy slogan playing off the and migrants escaping conflict Afghan arrested in Hungary in laid on the ground,” said deputy yesterday in the largest anti-government pro- garbage crisis that addresses Lebanese politicians.