{"id":896,"date":"2006-05-23T19:14:28","date_gmt":"2006-05-23T19:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=896"},"modified":"2006-05-23T19:14:28","modified_gmt":"2006-05-23T19:14:28","slug":"2006-5-23-revisiting-the-beni-suef-fire-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=896","title":{"rendered":"Revisiting the Beni Suef fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">Remember the <a href=\"\/archives\/2005\/09\/28\/the-beni-suef-fire-scandal\/\">Beni Suef fire scandal<\/a> last September? Well a verdict has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alertnet.org\/thenews\/newsdesk\/L22280886.htm\">come out<\/a> on who&#8217;s responsible:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>CAIRO, May 22 (Reuters) &#8211; An Egyptian court sentenced eight government employees, including the head of a cultural body, to 10 years in jail each on Monday for negligence over a theatre fire last year that killed 46 people, a judicial official said.<br \/>The official said that Mostafa Elwy, head of the authority for cultural centres who was among those convicted, was also a member of the ruling National Democratic Party&#8217;s policies committee. The rest also worked for the Culture Ministry.<br \/>The official said the men were responsible for the running of the overall administration of state-run theatres throughout the country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A lot of people were calling for Mostafa Elwy&#8217;s head back then. It was given to them instead of Minister of Culture Farouq Hosni&#8217;s. My question: what new fire safety procedures have been implemented?<\/p>\n<p>See you at the next disaster.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">Remember the <a href=\"\/archives\/2005\/09\/28\/the-beni-suef-fire-scandal\/\">Beni Suef fire scandal<\/a> last September? Well a verdict has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alertnet.org\/thenews\/newsdesk\/L22280886.htm\">come out<\/a> on who&#8217;s responsible:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>CAIRO, May 22 (Reuters) &#8211; An Egyptian court sentenced eight government employees, including the head of a cultural body, to 10 years in jail each on Monday for negligence over a theatre fire last year that killed 46 people, a judicial official said.<br \/>\nThe official said that Mostafa Elwy, head of the authority for cultural centres who was among those convicted, was also a member of the ruling National Democratic Party&#8217;s policies committee. The rest also worked for the Culture Ministry.<br \/>\nThe official said the men were responsible for the running of the overall administration of state-run theatres throughout the country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A lot of people were calling for Mostafa Elwy&#8217;s head back then. It was given to them instead of Minister of Culture Farouq Hosni&#8217;s. My question: what new fire safety procedures have been implemented?<br \/>\nSee you at the next disaster.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[102,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}