DOHA: A young man who understandably posted for show-off a picture of his unlicensed rifle on social media had to pay a huge price. He was caught by authorities, tried and sentenced by a court to a year in jail and fined QR10,000 ($2,746) for keeping the weapon without licence.
According to the local Arabic daily Al Raya, the man posted a photograph of a German Kalashnikov gun on his Instagram account.
The Search and Follow-up Department at the Ministry of Interior was tipped off by a secret agent. The may was caught and interrogated.
A search of his home led to the recovery of the rifle. Later, the public prosecution filed charges after the state forensic laboratory confirmed that it was a German Kalashnikov and in a good condition.
The court sentenced the man to a year in prison and fined him QR10,000 for keeping the gun without license.
The defence lawyer, though, argued in the court that his client had no intention of committing any crime with the Kalashnikov. He just had it for fun. The prosecution counter-argued that owning a gun without license was illegal punishable by law. The Peninsula
Tunis: Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid presented a cabinet line-up to parliament yesterday that included no members of the moderate Islamist Ennahda party which led the former government.
Essid’s government will be the first since the first freely contested parliamentary and presidential elections last year.
There had been conflicting reports over whether Ennahda, which dominated interim administrations since the Arab Spring in of 2011 would join the new government. The anti-Islamist Nidaa Tounes party of President Beji Caid Essebsi won the largest number of seats in the October elections but fell short of a majority, forcing it to look for coalition partners. Ennahda, which came second, had not excluded joining a unity government under Essid. Nidaa Tounes Secretary-General, Taieb Baccouche, was named Foreign Minister and the ministries of health and transport also went to members of the president’s party. But other posts went to independents or nominees from smaller parties.
Sana’a: Yemen’s parliament will hold an emergency meeting tomorrow after President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi offered to resign over a deadly stand-off with Shia militia controlling the capital, official media said. Hadi, an US ally in the fight against Al Qaeda, said in his letter of resignation that he could no longer stay in office as the country was in “total deadlock”.
Witnesses and security forces said Huthi militiamen had encircled the parliament building overnight, having seized the presidential palace earlier this week. Agencies
