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How family of Qatar’s UNESCO candidate escaped jail for Villagio mall fire

The daughter and son-in-law of Qatar’s candidate for top UNESCO post were charged, sentenced and eventually acquitted for a 2012 Doha mall fire that killed 13 children and four adults.

Hamad bin Abdulaziz al-Kawari, Qatar’s former minister of culture, was announced as one of nine short-listed candidates for the post of UNESCO director-general.

His daughter, Iman Hamad al-Kuwari and her husband Sheikh Ali Bin Jassim al-Thani, Qatar’s Ambassador to Belgium, were co-owners of the Gympanzee nursery. Both al-Kuwari and al-Thani remained abroad and in their diplomatic post despite having been convicted of manslaughter in 2014. They were acquitted a year later.

Continued at: https://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/gulf/2017/10/11/How-family-of-Qatar-s-candidate-for-UNESCO-post-escape-jail-for-mall-fire.html

We are probably unfamiliar with this story but it sounds really bad.
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