TV channel employee ‘contacted and helped publicise Muslim Brotherhood’

ABU DHABI // 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.