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  • Tuesday ,08 September 2015
العربية

TV channel employee ‘contacted and helped publicise Muslim Brotherhood’

By The National

Copts and Poliltical Islam

00:09

Tuesday ,08 September 2015

TV channel employee ‘contacted and helped publicise Muslim Brotherhood’
A Kuwaiti media worker made contact with Muslim Brotherhood members to give them TV coverage, the Federal Supreme Court heard.A Kuwaiti media worker made contact with Muslim Brotherhood members to give them TV coverage, the Federal Supreme Court heard.
 
K F A, 46, an Al Bedaya TV channel employee, is accused of helping to publicise the Brotherhood’s UAE arm, a banned organisation.
 
It was alleged he received 250,000 Qatari riyals (Dh252,169) from a Qatar charity to finance another TV channel called Hayatona. The Beirut-based channel had been backed by some of the defendants in the sedition trial who were jailed for conspiring to overthrow the UAE Government.
 
A K, a State Security service officer, said K F A was a known Kuwaiti Muslim Brotherhood member and was working with the organisation in this country.
 
“K F A has relations with a few members of the UAE Muslim Brotherhood and had assisted them in media coverage,” the witness said. “He gave the members a chance to portray their opinions during a show targeted towards family life. He had also attended a secret meeting held in Sharjah by one of the prosecuted members in the sedition trial of 2012.”
 
K F A denied the charges, saying that he loved the UAE.
 
The hearing was adjourned to next Monday.