based Indian fishermen held in Qatar since July on charges of illegal entering its territorial waters were released with fines Thursday. Ja'far Al-Safwani of the Fishermen's Society in the Eastern Province said the verdict from the Qatari Al-Sadd Court applied to the crews of four of the total of six fishing vessels. “The court fined each fisherman SR2,000, a total of SR38,000,” Al-Safwani said. Fishing boat owner Abdullah Al-Ghazal said the fate of the four-man crew from the fifth boat would be determined next Sunday, and that lawyers were moving to secure a date for the trial of the remaining five from the sixth vessel.
