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MP Geagea on honor crimes: women remain victims of archaic tribal system
18-7-2018
In her comment on the latest honor killings in the country, LF MP Sitrida Geagea said that Article 562 of the Penal Code which mitigates sentences for assailants in specific cases has been annulled in the texts but is still rooted in the souls and minds of some Lebanese, pointing that today as in the past, killing a woman displays itself as a means to reinstate the honor of some criminal mindsets. Geagea maintained that in the absence of official statistics on so called crimes of honor, the mere scanning of articles published in local journals is enough to expose the gravity of the situation, noting that while names change from one victim to another, the Lebanese woman is the scapegoat that carries away the ill doings of the felonious and obsolete family and clan system. In her reference to the recent murder of Rabia Hamiyeh, Geagea said she will not be the last victim unless effective and appropriate measures are taken to counter it. Speaking for the LF al-jomhouria-el-kawiya bloc, Geagea appealed to the Judiciary to be stricter in enforcing relevant court sentences and rulings and to severely penalize the perpetrators, calling on security forces to respond adequately to any complaint filed by a battered woman or any woman subjected to any form of violence. (An Nahar, Al Diyar, July 18, 2018)
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