ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Home | 3 Business | 17 Sport | 28 Marriage costs average HSBC apologised Defending champions QR1m due to spending to customers and India beat arch rivals on ceremonies. However, investors for past Pakistan by 76 runs in dower money is not practices at its their opening World Cup included in this cost. Swiss private bank. game in Adelaide. MONDAY 16 FEBRUARY 2015 • 27 Rabial II 1436 • Volume 19 Number 6343 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Emir meets Moroccan Speaker 21 Copts killed in Some lawyers Libya: IS video CAIRO: Islamic State released a video yesterday purporting to show the beheading of a group practising of Egyptian Christians kid- napped in Libya, violence likely to deepen Cairo’s concerns over security threats from militants thriving in the neighbouring without licence country’s chaos. Egypt’s state news agency MENA quoted the spokesman for the Coptic Church as confirm- Lawyers’ body calls for scrutiny ing that 21 Egyptian Christians believed to be held by Islamic DOHA: The Qatari Lawyers’ that regulates Qatar’s legal profes- State were dead. In the video, mil- Association has claimed that sion, also known as the Lawyers’ itants in black marched the cap- several foreigners are operating Law. “These QFC-registered for- tives, dressed in orange jump suits, in the country as lawyers with- eign firms have 70 percent share Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani met Morocco’s Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rachid Talbi to a beach the group said was near out licence. These individuals are of the Qatari legal market.” Alami, and his delegation at Emiri Diwan yesterday. Talks dealt with means of enhancing relations and issues of Tripoli. They were forced down operating under the nose of the Qatari law says that if a law firm mutual concern. Advisory Council Speaker, Mohammed bin Mubarak Al Khulaifi, was present. onto their knees, then beheaded. authorities concerned and some is not registered with the Ministry The video appeared on the Twitter claim to represent famed foreign of Justice, it cannot practice the feed of a website that supports law companies. legal profession or represent cli- Islamic State. REUTERS “We have discovered that some ents in court, said Al Nuaimi. See also page 8 so-called foreign law firms oper- He said in an irony of sorts the ating here don’t exist anywhere work QFC-registered firms are Parents urged to approach in the world,” said the head of getting from government or pri- Arab League to the Qatari Lawyers’ Association, vate entities, eventually comes to Rashid bin Nasser Al Nuaimi. Qatari law firms. “So why give us These “fake” lawyers don’t even work indirectly?,” asked Al Nuaimi. SEC with school complaints meet on Yemen have offices but are working here “Give it to us directly.” freely and without fear. His deputy said that gone are the DOHA: Seats are available at complaints. We contact the school allowed after October. However, Al Nuaimi said in comments days when there were few Qatari all private schools and no stu- concerned and try to settle the there can be exemptions for on Wednesday published by local Arabic dailies lawyers and the work load was dent has been forced to sit at issue amicably. Despite this, some some expatriates, especially new yesterday that there are 25 for- more. Today, Qatari lawyers total home for failure to get admis- parents are going to the media, comers. CAIRO: The Arab League said it eign law firms registered with the 190, and they are highly experi- sion, a senior official of the instead of communicating with Al Ghali said there is no dis- will hold an extraordinary meet- Qatar Financial Centre (QFC), and enced and they can do all the jobs Supreme Education Council our office,” said Al Ghali in an crimination between Qatari and ing on Wednesday on the crisis some of them are flouting the provi- that are required of them, including (SEC) has said. interview with Al Arab daily pub- non-Qatari students in private in Yemen where Houthi mili- sions of the law that regulate them the complex legal work required for Hamad Al Ghali, director of lished yesterday. “No Qatari or and international schools, pro- tiamen have ousted Western- and the QFC itself. “There are no mega development projects. Private Schools Office at SEC non-Qatari (student) who holds a vided they fulfil all the require- backed President Abdrabuh restrictions on them. They are free Sheikh Thani bin Ali Al Thani, urged parents to take up their residence permit has been forced ments. He said increase in salaries Mansur Hadi. to do what they wish to. This is not deputy chairman of the Qatari complaints related to private to sit at home. Seats are available of teachers and other staff is one Yemen, a traditional US ally, acceptable to us,” said Al Nuaimi. Lawyers’ Association, said: schools directly to his office in all private schools and in all of the criteria while considering has descended into chaos since the Some of these firms are working “Therefore, there is no need for instead of going to the media. specialisations,” he added. fee increase requests from private Houthis seized the capital Sana’a with state agencies as legal con- foreign law firms in Qatar”. “The Private Schools Office is Admissions at private schools schools. in September, and later ousted the sultants and contract administra- Continued on page 5 open to all. There are experts start in March/April and close Continued on page 2 government and dissolved parlia- tors. This is in violation of the law THE PENINSULA to look into different types of in October. No registration is THE PENINSULA ment on February 6. The decision to hold the special meeting of Arab foreign ministers comes as the UN Security Council prepares to discuss a resolution, calling on the militiamen to step Man demands down or face consequences. Chapel Hill solidarity march draws huge crowd “The purpose of the meeting QR10m over is to review the recent danger- DOHA: More than a thousand ous developments on the Yemeni botched surgery people marched at the Education scene,” Arab League deputy head, City yesterday in a rare show of Ahmed bin Helli, told reporters DOHA: A man, claiming to solidarity with the family of the yesterday at the organisation’s have become impotent due to three Muslim students killed at headquarters in Cairo. alleged negligence of a doctor Chapel Hill in the US last week. When asked about the Arab during surgical operations, has The ‘Qatar Solidarity Walk’ position on the crisis, he said: “It demanded QR10m in damages organised by students of the Qatar is up to the foreign ministers to in a lawsuit. Foundation demonstrated the par- declare an Arab stand after study- The man has actually gone in ticipants’ belief that education and ing all the aspects of the crisis.” appeal against the ruling of a not hatred must be shared among The Arab League has previously lower criminal court that sen- everyone. accused the Houthis of carrying tenced the doctor to a month H E Sheikha Hind bint Hamad out a “coup” when it ousted the in jail and fine of QR460,000 Al Thani and the US Ambassador government of Hadi. ($126,000). And the court ruled to Qatar Dana Shell Smith were In their bid to establish author- that the sentence be kept in sus- among the participants of the ity across Yemen since sweeping pension. This means that the doc- demonstration. down from their mountainous tor is to be jailed only if he repeats The three students Yusor northern stronghold in September, medical negligence within a speci- Mohammad Abu Salha, her hus- the Houthi militiamen have tried fied timeframe. band Deah Shaddy Barakat and to stifle opposition and been The lawyer for the complain- her sister Razan Mohammad accused of detaining and tortur- ant has told the Criminal Court of Abu-Salha were shot and killed ing opponents. Appeals in his plea that the doc- last Tuesday at their home near They have refused to withdraw tor has walked away with light the University of North Carolina their fighters despite a UN call punishment for what was a seri- allegedly by a neighbour Craig H E Sheikha Hind bint Hamad Al Thani, US Ambassador to Qatar Dana Shell Smith and other dignitaries during to “engage in good faith in the ous negligence. Stephan Hicks. The student com- UN-brokered negotiations” led the ‘Qatar Solidarity Walk’ in Doha yesterday. Medical reports suggest that munity and teachers of Hamad Bin by special envoy Jamal Benomar. the complainant has suffered Khalifa University and QF’s part- The UN has also called for the multiple disabilities during a slew ner universities, as well as students The participants also included Administration, and Engineer slogans such as ‘We all have the release of Hadi, his Prime Minister of surgical interventions for piles, of Qatar University and other aca- Engineer Saad Al Muhannadi, Jassim Telefat, Group Executive right to live free from hate’ ‘Hate Khalid Bahah, as well as other offi- reports local Arabic daily Al Raya. demic institutions walked together President of Qatar Foundation, Director of Qatar Foundation Crime’ and ‘United we stand.’ cials and activists under de facto Continued on page 6 in solidarity and in support of fami- Fahad Saad Al Qahtani, Group Capital Projects and Facilities. Continued on page 2 house arrest or in detention. AFP THE PENINSULA lies of the Chapel Hill victims.