ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Home | 5 Business | 17 Sport | 26 Family $520m Kahramaa Federer returns Fun Friday order for Siemens with easy victory permanent at to deliver turnkey in Cincinnati FBQ museum. substaions. Masters. THURSDAY 20 AUGUST 2015 • 5 Dhul-Qa’da 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6528 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Emir with Eritrean President Qatar passes Fine for overtaking law on organ donation from right doubled DOHA: Qatar passed a law yesterday that allows organ donation for transplant by people Emir approves amended traffic law who are not related to recipients. The only condition the legisla- DOHA: An amended traffic above violations will be liable to concerned were to deal with such tion specifies for such donations law likely be enforced by year- be jailed as well as fined. violations but now the former is that the transplant must be end will allow motorists to pay Points are also to be deducted (traffic department) has been urgent and without which the half the fine for a violation that from the driver’s points scale solely authorized to deal with it. recipient cannot be treated or his figures on the reconciliation list for exceeding speed limits. No A vehicle seized for violation life cannot be saved. provided the fine is paid within fines are, though, prescribed for must be taken back by its owner Moreover, an ethics committee at 30 days. The rule will not apply breaching speed limits. The Emir within three months after paying the hospital where the transplant to violations in which reconcili- H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad the fines, or it would be auctioned. is to take place must approve the ation is not possible. Al Thani yesterday issued Law The fine amount will be deducted donation. Children and people with However, once the 30-day Number 16 of 2015 amending from the sale proceeds after the unsound mind are barred from period is over, the errant motorist some provisions of the Traffic auction and the remaining amount making organ donation even if their will have to pay the fine amount Law that was issued in 2007. will be handed to the owner. parents or guardians or legal repre- in full. The amended traffic law, Qatar News Agency (QNA) However, if the fine is more sentatives have given consent. however, doubles the fine for reports that the amended law than the sale amount, the mat- Any kind of trade in human overtaking from the right side to will be effective 90 days after its ter will be referred to the court organs is not allowed and their QR1,000 from QR500. publication in the official gazette. for recovery of the outstanding sale or purchase is an offence The fine for illegal parking of The legislation bars an owner amount. Earlier, the period for punishable with a jail term of cars in slots reserved for people of from parking a car in a public claiming a seized car was six up to 10 years and fine of up to a special needs has also been raised place, including roadside and open months. Car rental companies, million riyals or both. The Emir to QR1,000 from QR500. Three ground, with an announcement all car showrooms, garages and H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad points will also be deducted from for sale without permission from automobile décor shops will need Al Thani yesterday issued Law the driver’s points scale for the the Department of Traffic. to be licensed by the “authorities Number 15 of 2015 regulating the above violation. Earlier, the Department of concerned”. Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani yesterday met President of transplant of human organs. Those found repeating the Traffic as well as the municipality THEPENINSULA Eritrea Isaias Afwerki. Emir also hosted a luncheon banquet in honour Continued on page 3 of the President and his delegation. THE PENINSULA Weather office forecasts hotter days with high humidity DOHA: Qatar could bask in even more August 26 will be between four to seven 26 will be due to deep low Indian monsoon 90 percent and tomorrow, the maximum that the maximum temperature will vary soaring temperatures over the next degrees higher than the average for the pressure over the Gulf region, associated could reach up to 90 percent. from 39 degrees (in Al Ruwais) and 45 several days, predicts the Met office. It current period (40.7 degrees). with southwesterlyy wind which will be He said the temperatures would begin degrees (Abu Samra). In Doha, it will be will be hotter than the present weather In a special bulletin the bureau said light to moderate in speed, said the bureau. easing a bit from August 27 onwards. 43 degrees. from tomorrow until August 26, with that the maximum temperature in the As for humidity, a weather forecaster told Yesterday, the humidity levels were The minimum or nightly tempera- temperatures peaking at 48 degrees above-said period is expected to be this newspaper that the levels will be high 70 to 75 percent. According to the fore- ture, on the other hand, is forecast to be at places on Tuesday and Wednesday. close to mid-forties in Doha, and more today and tomorrow and in the days that caster, as a result of high humidity the between 29 degrees (Abu Samra) and 33 Those will be the hottest days. in southwesterly (Abu Samra, etc) and follow. weather will be much hotter. degrees (Messaieed and Al Wakrah). In The weather bureau said yesterday central areas. He said that today, humidity levels Meanwhile, in the routine weather Doha, it will be 32 degrees. that temperatures from tomorrow until The rise in temperatures until August are expected to range between 85 and forecast for today the Met office said THE PENINSULA Palestinian detainee ends 65-day hunger strike RAMALLAH:Palestinian detainee Mohammed Allan ended his 65-day hunger strike against his detention without trial yesterday after the Israeli Supreme Court suspended his arrest warrant, his lawyer said. Allan has sustained brain dam- age as result of his hunger strike and is hospitalised in Israel in critical condition. The court said that in his current condition he poses no threat and therefore sus- pended his arrest warrant. Turkish police secure the area after a shooting incident near the entrance The 31-year-old Islamic Jihad to Dolmabahce Palace in Istanbul, Turkey, yesterday. activist’s case was being monitored closely by opposing sides in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which Istanbul palace attacked had looked likely to boil over into new violence if Allan were to have ISTANBUL/DIYARBAKIR: ceasefire last month. died as result of his strike. Gunmen fired on police out- The unrest in the NATO mem- “The story is over, adminis- side an Istanbul palace and a ber state comes weeks after it trative detention is cancelled and bomb killed eight soldiers in the declared a “war on terror”, open- therefore there is no strike,” Allan’s southeast yesterday, heighten- ing up its air bases to the US-led lawyer, Jameel Khatib, said. ing a sense of crisis as Turkey’s coalition against Islamic State, The Israeli government saw leaders struggled to form a new launching air strikes on Kurdish his hunger strike as a powerful government. militants, and detaining more than challenge against “administrative The Istanbul governor’s office 2,500 suspected members of radi- detention”, a practice that has said two members of a “terror- cal Kurdish, far-leftist and Islamist drawn criticism from human rights ist group” armed with hand groups. There was no immediate groups but which Israel calls nec- grenades and an automatic rifle claim of responsibility for the essary for its national security. It were caught after attacking the attack at Dolmabahce palace, fears his release would only encour- Dolmabahce palace, popular with where the assailants opened fire age some 370 other Palestinian tourists and home to the prime on police guarding the entrance. detainees held without charge to minister’s Istanbul offices. There The building has been targeted refuse food. The court said Allan were no reports of casualties. before by leftist militants. was to stay at the Israeli hospital Militants from the Kurdistan The Prime Minister Ahmet where he was being treated. Workers Party (PKK) meanwhile Davutoglu was in the capital Allan’s lawyers said that in killed eight soldiers with a road- Ankara as reports of the shoot- return for an end to the strike, side bomb in the southeastern ing emerged and did not inter- Israel had pledged not to renew province of Siirt, the military rupt a speech he was giving live his six-month detention period, said, intensifying a conflict there on television. meaning he would go free on after the breakdown of a two-year REUTERS Novemebr 3. REUTERS THURSDAY 20 AUGUST 2015 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03 Leaders greet 26 firms in Art Mill design contest Afghan president DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani sent a cable of congratula- Sheikha Mayassa: Number of designers interested in the project surpassed our expectations tions to Afghanistan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani on DOHA: The global search National Museum of Qatar under his country’s Independence Day. for the designer of the Art construction. Deputy Emir H H Sheikh Mill in Doha, envisioned as H E Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani one of the world’s leading cul- Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, also sent a congratulatory cable tural centres, is gathering Chairperson, QM, said: “The to Ghani.