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Violence against women in the north, trial of wife killer rescheduled
16-11-2018
In the latest of violence against women, an ISF patrol in Akkar arrested yesterday a Syrian young man on charges of abduction for the purpose of marriage. A Syrian woman was also detained on charges of adultery and running away with her two underage daughters (6 and 4 years). The suspects were referred to Halba police station. Concurrently, the Army Command announced that, after a video circulated showing a soldier’s wife, N.S forcing another woman to kiss her foot, a man, Y.S shot his sister and her husband in the Lebanese Army in Minyeh, killing her and wounding her husband. The attacker was arrested. On the other hand, the head of Mount Lebanon Criminal Court, Judge Elie Helou, postponed till next February 14, the trial of Ali Zein, killer of wife Sarah Amin, for the absence of witnesses and psychiatrists requested to give their testimonies, and noting that the given date is an official holiday. The Amin family attorney said that the defense attorney is repeatedly procrastinating in the case, which goes back to 2015 when the culprit killed his wife at their house in Aramoun (https://goo.gl/b4kXdY). When the court session was adjourned, the victim’s mother told the judge: “I wish the sentence will be pronounced before I die.” (Al Mustaqbal, November 16, 2018)
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