ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Monday 1 July 2013 22 Shaaban 1434 - Volume 18 Number 5747 Price: QR2 Petrochemical Rosberg holds exports to hit on to win British 23m t/y: Minister Grand Prix Business | 17 Sport | 28 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Qatari students stuck Emir meets Lebanese president in Cairo flown home Two special flights with 200 students arrive in Doha DOHA: More than 200 Qatari board flights bound for any GCC fell, isolated acts of violence left students stranded at the inter- country. two people dead. national airport in Cairo, where According to Al Sharq, noted “The people want the fall of anti-government protests are Doha-based Islamic cleric, Dr the regime!” they shouted, echo- raging, have been brought here Yusuf Al Qaradawi, reached Egypt ing the Arab Spring rallying cry by two special flights. on Saturday from Turkey and that brought down Mubarak — The first batch of 110 students in a televised speech yesterday this time yelling not against an arrived on Saturday in a special evening asked anti-government ageing dictator but against the Qatar Airways’ flight, while the protesters to calm down and have first elected leader in Egypt’s second group of 99 students was faith in the regime of President 5,000-year recorded history. flown in yesterday. Mohammed Mursi. Thirty-one people were injured According to Qatar News He urged the Egyptian people in fighting in the town of Beni Agency (QNA), the special flights not to fight among themselves Suef, south of Cairo, and doz- were organised by the Foreign and resolve their political differ- ens suffered gunshot wounds Ministry in coordination with ences in an amicable way. during an attack on a Muslim Qatar Airways. “Give Mursi more time. He Brotherhood office in Housh QNA said the Qatari embassy has completed just one year as Eissa, in the northern Nile Delta. in Cairo set up a control room President. He needs more time The Brotherhood’s national two days ago which is operating to put things right in a country headquarters in a Cairo suburb round-the-clock to help Qatari that remained for decades under also came under attack from mili- students and citizens stranded corrupt rule,” the cleric said. tants hurling petrol bombs and in Egypt. The Foreign Ministry rocks and firing shotguns. The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani with Lebanese President General Michel Sleiman, who recently urged Qatari citizens, DELUGE OF PROTESTERS The liberal opposition National congratulated him on assuming the reins of power in Qatar, yesterday. See also page 3 including students in Egypt, to Hundreds of thousands of Salvation Front coalition leave the country for their safety Egyptians flooded into the streets declared victory in what it styled and security. on the first anniversary of Mursi’s “Revolutionary Communique No Meanwhile, people commenting inauguration yesterday to demand 1” saying the masses had “con- on local social networking sites that he resign in the biggest chal- firmed the downfall of the regime have been claiming that some lenge so far to rule by his Muslim of Mohammed Mursi and the Maid trafficking gangs busted Qatari citizens are still stranded Brotherhood. Muslim Brotherhood”. in Egypt. Waving national flags and Organisers called on demon- DOHA: Law enforcement officials busted six 21 men belong to various nationalities. A commentator said that chanting “Get out!”, a crowd of strators to continue to occupy gangs involved in inciting housemaids to run During interrogation, members of the gangs con- according to a Twitter message, more than 200,000 massed on central squares in every city until away from their sponsors, and giving them shel- fessed to the crime. some fellow citizens remain Cairo’s central Tahrir Square. It Mursi quits. The Tahrir Square ter, a press statement by the Ministry of Interior The gangs took large sums of money from the stranded in Cairo and requested was the largest demonstration crowd roared with approval as an said yesterday. maids to provide them shelter and “protection”. The that a special plane be sent to since the 2011 uprising that over- army helicopter hovering over- The hideouts operated by some 21 members of the women were promised good jobs in companies. bring them back. threw Mursi’s predecessor, Hosni head dropped Egyptian flags on gangs in different parts of the country sheltered 83 All the arrested will be referred to the Public Another commentator urged Mubarak. Despite the peaceful the protesters. THE PENINSULA runaway maids who didn’t have residence permits. Prosecution for further investigation after which fellow nationals in Egypt to atmosphere of the day, as night See also page 7 The gang members were also runaway workers charges will be filed against them. whose residence permits had expired. All the 104 The ministry’s statement said that the SFD had persons caught had police complaints against them. busted another gang of absconding workers arrest- Interior Ministry’s Search and Follow Up ing 25. Department (SFD) acted on a tip-off that some Charges were filed against them and the court gangs were inciting domestic workers to flee their imposed a fine of QR340,000 on those who provided sponsors. them shelter. The Department set up a team to conduct The director of the SFD, Brigadier Nasser Eissa searches, locate the hideouts of the runaway work- Al Sayed, said that the inspection drives to crack ers and arrest the culprits before they could expand down on the violators of the Residency Law will their illegal activities. continue. The SFD zeroed in on the hideouts after seeking He pointed out that those arrested will be housed official approval from the Public Prosecution and at detention wards at the Department that are took into custody 83 runaway maids and 21 men equipped with comfortable living facilities. It is then who were sheltering them after influencing them that the cases will be referred to Public Prosecution to escape their employers. for further legal proceedings, he added. All the maids are from South East Asia, while the THE PENINSULA GCC, EU plan Syria peace meeting DUBAI: The Gulf countries and play “a constructive role” in the Russia and the United States have the European Union pledged Sunni-dominated region. been striving to hold in Geneva. yesterday to pool their efforts to The ministers “reiterated the The GCC and the EU also took help convene a peace conference utmost urgency of finding a politi- a swipe at Lebanon’s Shia mili- on Syria, as they wrapped up a cal settlement of the Syrian con- tant movement Hezbollah which one-day ministerial meeting in flict,” said a statement issued at backs the Damascus regime in Bahrain. the end of the meeting. the 27-month conflict and “con- The gathering attended by EU They also pledged to “spare demned” its role “in military foreign policy chief Catherine no effort in helping to create the operations in Syria”. The state- Ashton and the foreign ministers appropriate conditions for a suc- ment, however, made no men- Egyptian demonstrators gather outside the presidential palace in Cairo during a protest calling for the ouster of of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation cessful convening of the peace tion of demands by Syria’s armed President Mohammed Mursi yesterday. Council also called on Shia Iran to conference on Syria” which opposition for weapons. AFP Lone Indian turns up for once-popular open house DOHA: Only one Indian turned up government. Indian vernacular newspa- of Indians had been registered with the getting air tickets to send them home. P S Sasi Kumar, First Secretary; Sunil at the monthly ‘open house’ of the pers published locally carried reports yes- embassy and some 200 Indians were “During the month of June, 40 Thapliyal, Head of Counseling Section Indian embassy here yesterday lend- terday describing how the monthly ‘open detained at the deportation centres over Indians were sent back home from the (Second Secretary); Shiv Lal Meena, ing credence to criticism in the Indian house’ had gradually become just a ritual. the last six months. Deportation Centre as a result of follow Assistant Counseling Officer; Suman expatriate community that the once- The person who turned up at the event Until June 24, some 43 Indians were in up by the Embassy. The Embassy pro- Sharma, Press officer at the embassy, along popular forum had gradually turned was from the south Indian state of Kerala the Central Prison, and 201 Indians were vided 23 air tickets to the detainees,” with the President of Indian Community into a farce. and had exit permit-related grievances. detained for repatriation until June 27. Arora said. Benevolent Forum (ICBF), Kareem The fact that the ‘open house’ was Indian Ambassador Sanjiv Arora held “Every month our officers visit the In 2013, a total of 95 deaths have been Abdullah. conducted on a working day yesterday a press briefing after the ‘open house’ and Central Prison and the Deportation registered at the Embassy, and in June The ICBF said that it will hold a two- and just a day’s notice was given to the was as usual in a hurry to leave, saying Centre to meet Indian inmates,” Arora about 12 Indians died in Qatar. However, day health camp in association with community has infuriated some com- nothing about the event. said. the embassy did not provide any further Apollo Clinic in September for Indians, munity organisations. These bodies are In his brief interaction with the media, He said the embassy was taking care details about the nature or cause of these especially unskilled workers living in likely to take up the issue with the Indian he said some 1,700 labour-related woes of Indian detainees and prisoners, and deaths.