Egypt Charges Morsi with Leaking Secrets to Qatar
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SUBSCRIPTION SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2014 THULQADA 12, 1435 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Cebu Pacific Shabab name Obama delays Neymar launches new leader acting on stunner gives direct flights after US strike immigration Brazil win to Manila3 kills chief7 reform9 over20 Colombia Egypt charges Morsi with Max 45º Min 30º leaking secrets to Qatar High Tide 05:14 & 20:23 Muslim Brotherhood slams ‘kangaroo trial’ Low Tide 13:14 40 PAGES NO: 16278 150 FILS CAIRO: Egypt charged ousted president Mohamed Morsi and nine others yesterday with endangering national security by leaking state secrets and sensitive documents to Qatar, furthering a state crackdown on his outlawed Muslim Brotherhood. Relations between Qatar and Egypt have been icy since July 2013, when Egypt’s then-army chief Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi toppled Morsi after protests against his rule. Qatar had supported Morsi, who is already in jail along with thousands of Brotherhood mem- bers, many of whom have been sentenced to death on separate charges. Security sources had said last month that Egypt was investigating Morsi in connection with documents they said were leaked to Qatar and its satellite news channel Al Jazeera. The Egyptian public prosecu- tor’s office said yesterday its secret investigation had unearthed enough evidence of espionage to charge Morsi and nine others in a criminal court. The maximum penalty if convicted is death. “The inquiries ... exposed humiliating facts and the extent of the largest con- Mohamed Morsi spiracy and treason car- ried out by the terrorist Brotherhood organisation against JAMMU, India: Residents look towards threatened houses as waters from the overflowing Tawi river rage past yesterday. — AFP the nation through a network of spies,” it said in a three- page statement. The public prosecutor said Morsi’s aides were involved in leaking to Qatari intelligence and Al Jazeera, docu- ments which exposed the location of and weapons held Rains kill 230 in Pakistan, India by the Egyptian armed forces and detailed the country’s foreign and domestic policies. The Qatari Foreign Ministry SRINAGAR, India: More than 230 people in Pakistan ing have left at least 128 people dead and marooned also were killed in a mudslide Thursday near the de- in Doha did not immediately respond to requests for and northern India have been killed in torrential mon- thousands more, according to officials. facto border with India, known as the Line of Control comment on the accusations. Al Jazeera, which has been soon rains which triggered flooding, landslides and Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif chaired a dividing disputed Pakistani- and Indian-administered banned from Egypt, has denied any bias in reporting house collapses, officials in the two countries said yes- high-level review meeting yesterday and ordered Kashmir. events there or any role in aiding the Brotherhood. terday. Troops and other emergency personnel were acceleration of relief and rescue efforts in the country, Pakistan has been swept by deadly monsoon The Brotherhood dismissed the charges as political. deployed in both countries to help with relief opera- his office said. In worst-hit Punjab province, the death floods for the last four years - in 2013, 178 people “Today is the start of yet another kangaroo trial... Morsi’s tions, with boats and helicopters being used to reach toll from rains and flooding over the past three days were killed and around 1.5 million affected by flood- trials are politically motivated cases with trumped up stranded people. Incessant rains in Pakistan have hit 55 while 235 people were injured, rescue services ing around the country. Rescue workers struggled to charges and a corrupt judiciary preciding over it,” killed at least 106 people over the past three days and director general Rizwan Naseer, told AFP. Another 48 reach remote mountain villages in Pakistan’s scenic Abdulla El-Haddad, a Brotherhood spokesman based in damaged thousands of houses, officials said as people have died in Pakistani-administered Kashmir, Neelum valley along the Line of Control but landslides Britain, said by email. Morsi faces trial in five other cases authorities put four districts on red alert for floods. said Akram Sohail, chairman of the disaster manage- hampered efforts. as well, on charges ranging from violence to insulting And in neighbouring India, torrential rains and flood- ment agency in capital Muzaffarabad. Three soldiers Continued on Page 13 the judiciary. Continued on Page 13 Iran forces plane to land TEHRAN: A charter plane carrying 100 landed at an airport in Bandar Abbas, a people, including Americans, out of port city on the Gulf. The plane had earli- Bahrain extends Afghanistan was ordered to land in er left Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, southern Iran because of errors in its US officials said on Friday. The State activist custody flight plan, a Tehran-based official said Department quickly refuted US media yesterday. The rare incident prompted a reports that Iran had scrambled fighter DUBAI: A Bahrain court ruled yesterday that promi- flurry of reaction in the United States but jets and forced the charter plane to land. nent rights activist Maryam Al-Khawaja be kept behind the problem was solved and the aircraft Ilkhani said airport officials had not been bars for an extra 10 days despite a UN call for her headed on to Dubai, its original destina- aware that Americans were on board but release, her lawyer said. The Bahraini co-director of the tion, after a few hours on the ground. the plane was asked to land because it Gulf Centre for Human Rights, who also has Danish “We realized that the flight information was in Iranian airspace and there was a nationality, was arrested for assaulting a police officer was incorrect and to be sure there was problem with its route information. after arriving at Manama airport on Aug 30. Her lawyer no problem, we asked to pilot to land,” “We interviewed the pilot and verified Mohammed Al-Jishi told AFP the judge ordered that said Mohammad Ali Ilkhani, head of the his flight documents. The pilot acknowl- Khawaja be kept in custody on that charge. Iranian Airports Organisation. edged there had been errors. In a hearing held in the judge’s office, and attended Flight FZ 4359, operated by flydubai, Continued on Page 13 VENICE: Director Roy Andersson shows his Golden Lion for the best film for his only by Jishi and a Danish diplomat, Khawaja insisted movie ‘A Pigeon Sat On A Branch Reflecting On Existence’ during the awards cer- st the charges against her were “vindictive and fabricat- emony of the 71 edition of the Venice Film Festival yesterday. — AP ed”, according to lawyer. Her arm in a sling, she coun- tered by accusing police of attacking her at the airport. Jishi said Khawaja had to see a doctor during her cus- Swedish film wins tody due to her apparent trauma. If convicted, Khawaja could face a max- Venice Golden Lion imum of two years in jail, Jishi said. VENICE: Swedish director Roy his baby son’s life in Italian Saverio On Friday, the United Andersson’s film “A Pigeon Sat on a Costanzo’s New-York based tale “Hungry Nations called for Bahrain Branch Reflecting on Existence”, a series Hearts”. Italian actress Alba Rohrwacher to release Khawaja, a of comedic sketches exploring the won best actress for her performance in member of the island human condition, won the Golden Lion the same film, where she played a moth- kingdom’s Shiite majority for best movie at the Venice film festival er who believes her child is a ‘chosen’ one and the daughter of yesterday. The eccentric film, which fea- but risks killing him with her love. prominent opponent tures salesmen flogging novelty items, The Grand Jury prize went to Joshua Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja. He singing bar women and a sex-mad fla- Oppenheimer’s powerful “The Look of Zainab Al-Khawaja KUWAIT: Children head to school in this file photo. — KUNA was jailed for life follow- menco dancer, was hailed by critics in Silence”, his second documentary on the ing 2011 protests against authorities in the Sunni-ruled Venice for its distinctive look and moving Indonesian genocide, in which the broth- state across the Gulf from Shiite Iran. Ravina exploration of what it means to be er of a murdered man confronts his Back to school! Shamdasani, spokeswoman for the UN High human. killers. “Adi made this film because he Commissioner for Human Rights, said Friday the Collecting the prize, Andersson told wanted to meet the perpetrators and agency was “seriously concerned” that Khawaja had KUWAIT: Schools start the new aca- schools. The number of learners at liter- the audience in English that he had been have them accept what they’d done so demic year today by welcoming 638,496 acy centers is 20,308, 2,801 students are been arrested. “We urge the government to take inspired by Vittorio De Sica’s 1948 he could pardon them,” Oppenheimer students in both public and private undergoing religious education and immediate steps to release Ms Khawaja and all human “Bicycle Thieves” - an emblem of said by video link about the protagonist schools including 82,646 kindergarten special needs schools have 1,763 stu- Neorealism filmmaking - particularly the of his work. The only person in the docu- rights defenders and individuals detained for the and 54,410 elementary students, with dents. scene in the pawnshop, because the mentary who accepts responsibility, peaceful exercise of their rights,” she said in a state- the expectation of traffic jams returning Assistant Undersecretary for Public character “discovers Rome’s poor”. “It’s a however, is the daughter of an ageing ment. to the streets despite preventive meas- Education Khalid Al-Rashid said results humanistic scene, it’s true empathy.