After two Nepali women activists, GS detains two other women on charge of espionage for the enemy

General Security (GS) detained last Wednesday, two women domestic workers of Nepalese nationality, on the charge of espionage for Israeli enemy. According to a statement issued by GS, investigations revealed that the two afore-mentioned Nepalese women were active in field of recruitment of Nepali foreign domestic workers of the Nepalese in Lebanon in service of the Israel, through providing them with the telephone numbers of Israeli embassy in Nepal in order to gather information about their sponsors for the Israeli’s intelligence agency. In addition to the two Nepalese, the security forces detained two Lebanese individuals of the Lebanese and a Palestinian refugee in Lebanon on the same charge. It is noteworthy that the General Security detained on last December 11th, two Nepalese domestic worker activists Sujana and Rosy who were members of the Council of the Syndicate of Male and Female Domestic Workers, (c.f: http://bit.ly/2gCoFfa)). Sujana was subsequently deported, whereas Rosi was held in detention, At the time SG actions raised protest from some of human rights organizations, while security officials alleged that the two women were involved in smuggling of domestic workers and assisting them to leave their sponsors’ places [of residence]”. (Al-Akhbar, The Daily Star, and L’Orient le Jour, January 27, 2017).

 

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