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Battered women in the media either victims or criminals!
29-11-2017
Local newspapers last week covered news about crimes in the country involving women, but did that briefly or hastily without trying to investigate the underlying causes behind the acts. One sample of the news cited by Al Diyar said, that the Rabieh municipal police arrested an Ethiopian MWDW on charges of attempted murder of her employer and was handed over to the ISF Information Department. Similarly, Al Mustaqbal newspaper wrote that the ISF General Directorate has circulated the photo of an Ethiopian migrant worker believed to have killed her employer and burning down his/her house in Baskinta, and asked whoever spotted the suspect to drop by the Jdaideh Judicial Police Unit. Additionally, Al Mustaqbal daily mentioned that the ISF Information Department has successfully detained a Lebanese young woman and another stateless (non-registered) woman on charges of forming a ring to allure girls into prostitution and then stealing their money. The same newspaper reported another news related to the arrest by the General Directorate of State Security of a human smuggling network active between Lebanon and Syria and run by a Lebanese woman, who was arrested in the West Bekaa locality of Suweiri. Again, in a separate incident, Al Mustaqbal reported about a mentally disturbed person who slaughtered his sister soon after he returned from Deir al Salib Hospital where he was being treated. The newspaper wrote that the suspect told the court he had an argument with his deceased sister about being hospitalized for 3 straight years. Given his condition, the court gave the mentally ill criminal defendant a mitigated sentence reducing the death penalty to 7-year imprisonment at a custodial asylum, Al Mustaqbal said. (Al Mustaqbal, L’Orient Le Jour, Al Diyar, November 19, 25, 28, 2017)
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