Women and civil society organisations denounce a prison sentence targeting a mother

Women and civil society organisations in Tripoli issued a statement denouncing a six months prison sentence issued by a local judge and ordering a mother to be jailed because her 13 year old daughter refused to meet her father although the mother was perfectly willing to accompany her daughter to the encounter.
The above mentioned organisations asked that the mother not be penalised because of the reaction of her daughter and to withhold the prison sentence until after the judicial summer leave. They stressed that the current law does not penalise such cases, insisting that the International Human Rights, and Child Rights Conventions, both ratified by Lebanon, be upheld.
The organisations signatory to the statement are the following: The Lebanese Council To Resist Violence Against Women – lecorvaw, The youth Parliament, Shabab el Balad, Together Association, Al Wifak El-Sakifia Association, The Public Committee of the North Unit, Araa2 wa Afkaar – Tripoli group, Afak Social and Welfare Association, Mouwatana for Monitoring and Development, Abdullah Hazem Darwich Welfare Association: Ihda2, Child Welfare Association, Working Women League in Lebanon – North branch, Humanities and Sciences Association, Ward, Feminist Work Association, Progressive women's association, Lebanese Women Democratic Gathering.
Source: Al-Mustaqbal 5 August 2013