{"id":37719,"date":"2019-03-27T23:23:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T23:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37719"},"modified":"2019-03-27T23:23:17","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T23:23:17","slug":"nine-iranians-held-for-smuggling-drugs-off-indian-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37719","title":{"rendered":"Nine Iranians held for smuggling drugs off Indian coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"85\">\n<p>\nCAIRO:\u00a0The Egyptian Actors Union has cancelled the membership of two prominent former associates \u2014 Khalid Abol Naga and Amr Waked \u2014 after they attended a session in Washington, DC. criticizing the country\u2019s human rights record.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nThe union called their actions \u201ca great betrayal of their homeland and of the Egyptian people \u2026 pushing the agenda of conspirators against the security and stability of Egypt.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nIt added that the pair would not act in Egypt again, stressing that it could not accept members it considered traitors.<\/p>\n<p>\nWaked ridiculed the decision, describing the organization, through his official Twitter account, as \u201cthe union of political arts.\u201d Naga said that it was important that the union should not rush to judgements, and that it should have contacted him first to ask for an explanation.<\/p>\n<p>\nLawyers on behalf of the organization have filed letters to the Egyptian attorney general\u2019s office against the pair, accusing them of committing acts of treason, incitement against the state and publishing false news.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn an informal session of the US Congress in Washington, Waked called on Egyptian people not to fear the regime.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nHe added that he had received threats that he would be arrested if he returned, but that it was his duty to express his opinion on behalf of the Egyptian people.<\/p>\n<p>\nMohamed Abdel Fattah, a member of the union, told Arab News that regardless of his opinion of the actors\u2019 visit to the US, the union had overstepped the mark.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThere are hundreds of unemployed actors, but I do not see any activity from them on that, only decisions to persecute colleagues. I am surprised by their interest in political affairs, all the while ignoring the problems of members such as the unsafe environments under which many members work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nDoubts have also been raised over the legality of the decision, given that it remains unclear whether Waked and Naga were notified of the intention to expel them, or even investigate them before their expulsion, contravening Egyptian law.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAIRO:\u00a0The Egyptian Actors Union has cancelled the membership of two prominent former associates \u2014 Khalid Abol Naga and Amr Waked \u2014 after they attended a session in Washington, DC. criticizing the country\u2019s human rights record.\u00a0 The union called their actions \u201ca great betrayal of their homeland and of the Egyptian people \u2026 pushing the agenda&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":37720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37719","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\/37719","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=37719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}