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Verdict against human traffickers in Beirut, Ethiopian woman falls dead in Tyre
16-4-2019
The Criminal Court of Beirut, headed by Judge Samy Sidqi, issued a verdict yesterday against suspects of human trafficking and prostitution, Ahmad Kh, Ahmad H, Fawaz S and Ibrahim Y (Syrian nationals, sentencing them to two years in prison and fining each with LBP 200,000. The ruling also indicted Attaa H (Syrian) according to Article 523 of the Penal Code, but mitigated the penalty to the period of detention for insufficient evidence of involvement in sex work with one of the defendants. She was also punished for illegal residence status. According to the ruling, the defendants facilitated prostitution for girls by driving them to hotels and homes in the areas of Beirut, Bsalim and Jdeideh to meet their clients. They also lured girls and smuggled them from Syria for sex work in Lebanon. On the other hand, this morning, Civil Defense units transferred a migrant domestic worker to the Jabal Amel Hospital who was injured after falling from the third floor of a residential building in the Tyre town of Hosh. Security Forces arrived at the scene and started investigation. Since the start of the year, our site recorded the death of two Ethiopian migrant workers in Tripoli and Antelias, and the attempted sale of another MWDW by her employer. (Al Mustaqbal, Al-Diyar, April 16, 2019)
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