Violence against women in Lebanon and abroad and the Parliamentary Commission for human rights meets to discuss this matter

The phenomenon of deadly violence against women has gone beyond borders with the murder last week of Maguy Bou Kreim (47, mother of two children) by her husband in Sidney (Australia) who bludgeoned her to death.  This is the fourth such incident in less than a month.  The husband was charged with the murder of his wife by the Australian police who refused to release him on bail.  Within the same vein, the husband of Krystel Abi Assi who had succumbed to a lethal dose of poison was arrested at the Jdaideh judicial station following a warrant after he was sued by his wife’s family and whilst waiting for the communication data so as to go further in the investigation.
Against this gory background, the president of the Parliamentary Commission for Human rights, MP Michel Moussa, called on the Minister of Justice, the Minister of Interior and Municipalities as well as the district attorney and the director general of internal security to meet next Tuesday to hear the Ministers’ new plans with regards to addressing the growing problem of domestic violence.  In an interview to the An Nahar newspaper, MP Michel Moussa noted that his Commission will first require that the judiciary speeds up the processing of current cases as well as call on the Parliament to proceed with the endorsement of the project law to protect women from domestic violence.
Source: Al-Mustaqbal, Al-Safir, Al-Nahar 19 February 2014