ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Home | 6 Business | 17 Sport | 23 57 students Portfolio investors Mishal Al Naimi graduate from view Qatar as wins pole Georgetown an exciting position at University. destination. Losail Circuit. SUNDAY 10 MAY 2015 • 21 Rajab 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6426 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 OPINION Sheikha Moza attends Teaching and Learning Forum Where is the New rules for freedom of expression? construction, obody noticed the World Press NFreedom Day this year. It passed quietly. Even the out- demolition dated propa- ganda Bid to avoid disturbance to public which the press and DOHA: The Ministry of 6.30am to 6pm from Sunday to media Municipality and Urban Planning Thursday. The work hours on organisa- has fixed the timing for con- Saturday is from 8am to noon tions in struction, demolition and main- and from 2pm to 6pm. No work is several tenance works in residential and allowed on Fridays and the Eid hol- Arab Dr Khalid Al-Jaber commercial areas to minimise idays, unless in exceptional cases. coun- disturbance to the public. In commercial areas, work can tries are so used to, promot- The schedule is included in be carried out round-the-clock ing so-called media freedom the guide issued by the Ministry from Saturday through Thursday. and freedom of expression, recently on “special requirements The timing for Friday is from was absent this time. It for work sites to curb damages 10.30am to 1pm and no work is became clear that such gim- resulting from maintenance, con- permitted on the first day of Eid. micks would not last long struction and demolition”. Besides the regular working and work all the time. The guide was released on the hours, there are “quiet hours” H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, Chairperson of Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community The findings of interna- World Day for Safety and Health when the work can be continued Development (QF), yesterday attended the second annual Teaching and Learning Forum. The forum was tional reports issued this at Work observed on April 28. without any noise or disturbance. attended by a number of dignitaries and senior officials from Qatar Foundation. Report on page 2 AR AL-BAKER year are no different from “Actually there is no need for This is from 2pm to 3.30 pm in those published before. All any restrictions on working hours all work sites from Sunday to reports point to a steep as long as the work is not going Thursday and from 10.30am to decline in media freedom to affect any one. But in practice 2pm on Fridays and Saturdays. and freedom of speech in we have found that most people For work sites located near the the Arab world whether it is and employees in the private and school, the “quiet hours” are from in print, electronic or social government sectors, hospitals, 7am to 1pm and during the prayers Qatar University doubles fees media. schools and commercial facilities for sites close to the mosques. The reports also said that have been affected directly or Before starting work near the DOHA: The Qatar University from QR400 to QR800. at the beginning of each semester, some GCC states which were indirectly,” said the guide. schools, the contractors must has raised the tuition fees up to Fee for Engineering pro- Fall, Spring and Summer. Students earlier considered role mod- “This has made it necessary to notify Supreme Education Council 100 percent for all undergraduate gramme has been increased from are required to pay all amounts due els in media freedom have fix the timing so that the work (SEC) besides the municipalities and Foundation Programmes. QR600 to QR1000, Foundation for the current semester before now joined countries that can be carried out inside the cit- concerned about site hoardings. The hike will come into force Program from QR500 to QR900, they go to the next semester, severely suppress freedom ies,” it added. The new guidelines Before starting work, the con- from Fall semester this year Law from QR400 to QR800, according to the university website. of expression. They cracked have been issued in line with the tractor must conduct a study which begins after the summer Pharmacy from QR600 to Details of the fees existing and down mainly on Twitter existing laws and regulations and about each work site in terms of holidays. The university has not QR1000, Science from QR500 new are available on the website users. There are 157 mil- in consultation with contracting equipment and distributing space increased the fees since Fall 2009. to QR900, Sharia and Islamic of the varsity. lion people using Internet companies, said the document. for various purposes like machin- The tuition fees for Arts pro- Studies from QR400 to QR800. Besides Qataris who are mostly in Arab countries today; 360 In residential and mixed areas eries, gathering workers and stor- gramme has been hiked from QR Fee for the Arabic for Non- exempted from the fees, a large of them are in jail just for (that house both residential and ing material. 400 ( per credit hour) to QR800, Native Speakers Programme number of expatriate students are expressing their opinions. commercial facilities) timing for Continued on page 7 Business and Economics from remain unchanged at QR600. enrolled at the university. Continued on page 7 construction works is fixed from THE PENINSULA QR500 to QR900, Education The tuition fees are to be paid THE PENINSULA Russia Victory Day celebrations Mubarak, sons sentenced to Saudi strikes in Yemen city break three years for corruption law: UN official CAIRO: An Egyptian court three had already spent in jail. yesterday sentenced ousted They had initially been sen- GENEVA: Air strikes by a president Hosni Mubarak to tenced to three years on the same Saudi-led coalition on Saada city three years in prison on corrup- charges but an appeal court over- in Yemen, where many civilians tion accusations, after he was turned the original verdict. are trapped, are in breach of cleared of murder charges in Mubarak, who waved at his international law, despite calls another case. supporters in the benches before for civilians to leave the area, the Mubarak and his sons Alaa the judge read his verdict, was UN Humanitarian Coordinator and Gamal, also sentenced to taken to the military hospital for Yemen said yesterday. three years, were present in the where he has spent much of his “The indiscriminate bombing of caged dock, wearing suits and time since his detention in 2011. populated areas, with or without sunglasses. Their lawyers may try He and his sons were fined prior warning, is in contravention to appeal. It was not immediately 125m pounds ($16m) — the of international humanitarian law clear whether the sentencing took amount they were accused of (IHL),” Johannes van der Klaauw into account time served. embezzling from funds meant for said. “Issuing warnings of imped- The three had all been arrested the maintenance of presidential ing attacks does not absolve the in 2011, months after Mubarak palaces. The court also ordered parties of their IHL obligations was toppled in a popular 18-day them to pay an extra 21m pounds. to protect civilians from harm.” uprising after three decades in Before yesterday’s verdict, Scores of civilians were report- power. State news agency MENA Mubarak and his sons had been edly killed and thousands forced later reported that prison author- free men after their pretrial Fireworks explode over Red Square during the Victory Day celebrations in Moscow yesterday. Russian President to flee their homes after the coali- ities contacted the prosecution to detention period expired. Vladimir Putin presided over a huge military parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of victory over Nazi tion, which includes Saudi Arabia inquire about how much time the AFP Germany, brushing off a snub by Western leaders over Ukraine. See also page 12 and nine other Arab countries and is backed by the US, Britain and France, declared the entire gover- norate a military target, he said. “Many civilians are effectively trapped in Saada as they are una- ble to access transport because of Afghan Taliban ‘soften stance’ on women’s rights the fuel shortage. The targeting of an entire governorate will put KABUL: The Afghan Taliban, leave their homes without a male in male-dominated professions burqa compulsory, I used to see the who accused the Taliban of phony countless civilians at risk,” Van condemned for their misogynis- chaperone. like engineering’,” Heather Barr, world through small holes in the assurances. der Klaauw said. tic ideology, were surprisingly But three women who were a senior Human Rights Watch burqa, through a small window’,” Shinwari was accompanied Under international law, all open with female delegates who part of a 20-member Afghan del- researcher on women’s rights in Shinwari said this week. by two young Afghan women parties to the conflict must avoid attended peace talks in Qatar, egation that held informal peace Asia, said in a statement. Shinwari said she went into the who serve as defence lawyers inflicting harm upon civilians, pledging support for women’s talks with insurgent representa- Former MP and women’s rights meeting expecting the insurgent for Taliban detainees. “I told the and Van der Klaauw said military education and their right to tives in Qatar last weekend said activist Malalai Shinwari, who delegates would not even greet her, Taliban representatives: ‘You personnel and assets must not be work in “male-dominated pro- they were unanticipatedly recep- attended the talks, also said the but one elderly Taliban member didn’t let these two women go located in densely populated areas, fessions”, activists said.