{"id":33948,"date":"2019-03-03T17:23:51","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T17:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33948"},"modified":"2019-03-03T17:23:51","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T17:23:51","slug":"afghanistan-donates-1-million-to-un-agency-for-palestinians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=33948","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan donates $1 million to UN agency for Palestinians"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"48\">\n<p>\nCAIRO: An Egyptian court on Sunday upheld a five-year prison sentence for the country\u2019s former anti-corruption chief, found guilty of insulting the military, legal sources said.<br \/>A military court rejected Hisham Geneina\u2019s appeal and confirmed his sentence, a judicial source said, over comments made in an interview with the news website HuffPost Arabi.<br \/>Geneina was head of Egypt\u2019s Central Auditing Organization until he was sacked by President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi in 2016 for allegedly exaggerating the cost of corruption.<br \/>He subsequently became a top aide to former military chief of staff Sami Anan, who planned to challenge El-Sisi in presidential polls but was arrested.<br \/>Geneina claimed Anan held documents on \u201cpolitical events and crises that Egyptian society has passed through\u201d since the 2011 uprising.<br \/>He said the documents could be released if Anan \u2014 who remains in jail \u2014 was harmed.<br \/>Following the interview, Geneina was detained in February 2018 and sentenced last April to five years in prison for \u201cspreading news that harms the armed forces.\u201d<br \/>Sunday\u2019s ruling \u201ccould be challenged before a higher military court,\u201d Geneina\u2019s lawyer Ali Taha said.<br \/>Moataz Wadnan, the journalist who conducted the interview, was also detained but has not yet been put on trial, according to rights lawyer Negad Al-Borai.<br \/>Without any serious challenger at the ballot box, El-Sisi won a second four-year term last March with 97 percent of the vote.<br \/>Egypt\u2019s parliament, packed with El-Sisi supporters, is seeking to institute constitutional amendments that would extend his rule beyond 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAIRO: An Egyptian court on Sunday upheld a five-year prison sentence for the country\u2019s former anti-corruption chief, found guilty of insulting the military, legal sources said.A military court rejected Hisham Geneina\u2019s appeal and confirmed his sentence, a judicial source said, over comments made in an interview with the news website HuffPost Arabi.Geneina was head of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":33949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}