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Religious jihad against vice: What about trafficking and violence against women in Lebanon?

14-11-2018

At a time when spiritual circles in Lebanon trade in moral codes to attack personal freedoms under the pretext of fighting immorality and sin, (c.f: https://bit.ly/2RVy3J4), trafficking in women continues at a large scale. Furthermore, on-going dysfunction within families, violence against women, migrant domestic workers and children, which in some cases take the form of murder, suicide, or more tacitly moral abuse and neglect, hardly ever motivate religious chiefs to interfere in what they generally consider as personal matters. In the latest on trafficking in women, the Anti-Human Trafficking and Morals Protection Bureau revealed that, based on information it has about an unknown woman facilitating prostitution work and managing an upscale prostitution ring (USD 1500 for 60 minutes of sex), and following surveillance action, it uncovered the identity of the procurer. Claudia F, a Venezuelan national, runs the ring from Spain, and has used one of the Beirut hotels to carry out her services. She was reportedly persuaded to come to Lebanon and arrested with two Spanish and Ukranian women. Claudia, who admitted to facilitating sex work for girls in return for a percentage of the profits, was referred to the competent judiciary along with the other suspects. (Al Mustaqbal, November 14, 2018)

 
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