Manal al-Assi’s Death : J’accuse
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Police in #Beirut distribute fliers for a hotline to report cases of #domestic_violence against women. (Photo: Marwan Tahtah) #police in Beirut distribute fliers for a hotline to report cases of domestic violence against women. (Photo: Marwan Tahtah)
1 – The Killer As if it wasn’t enough that he killed her, after 15 years of battering her. As if it wasn’t enough that he took a second wife, and beat her, burned her, and strangled her to death while her mother was watching. As if it wasn’t enough that he prevented paramedics, neighbors, and even her parents from helping her, and dragged her bleeding and unconscious in front of them, while they begged him to let her go. As if it wasn’t enough that he only let her go to hospital (...)
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