78-Year-Old, Cancer-Stricken Woman Freed from Jail after Uproar
A 78-year-old, leukemia-stricken woman was released from jail Friday after five days of detention over a construction violation committed by her daughter.
The imprisonment of the elderly and ill woman, Khadija Asaad, had created an uproar on social networking websites and a number of women in her hometown, the southern town of Doueir, staged a demo demanding her release.
The uproar eventually prompted some politicians to express condemnation and follow up on the case.
In an interview with al-Jadeed television, one of the woman's daughters, Mariam, said her sister had constructed a tent on a building's rooftop in order to move her parents from a lower floor whose humidity and water leaking were aggravating their already poor health situations.
Mariam said the violation dates back to two years ago and that it returned to the spotlight after they installed some windows.
“We are ready to bear the full responsibility for the violation, but our mother has nothing to do with the issue and nothing is registered under her name,” Mariam added.
Nabatiyeh judge Mohammed Abdo had ordered the immediate release of the woman but Nabatiyeh prosecutor Ghada Bou Karroum revoked Abdo's ruling and referred the file to Judge Maha Fayyad who ordered her re-arrest.
Justice Minister Salim Jreissati held a phone conversation with Bou Karroum on Friday, the National News Agency said.
Both Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat and Arab Tawhid Party chief Wiam Wahhab had condemned the woman's arrest.
Speaking outside the Baabda prison after the woman's release, MP Hassan Fadlallah said she “was taken as a hostage from her home,” seeing as she was not behind the violation.
“We call on all the relevant officials to launch an urgent probe into the detention of Mrs. Khadija, which is a mark of shame on the forehead of the Lebanese judiciary,” Fadlallah urged.
05 May 2017, 21:49
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Does old age and Hezbollah's interference with justice negate the violation she committed?
05 May 2017, 22:03
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To be fair she was not the one who committed the violation, it was her daughter. Regardless everything in this whole affair stinks, from the arrest (if she was jailed for something her daughter did), to the political interference by the Justice Minister, to the grandstanding of Fadlallah.
05 May 2017, 22:20
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and you believe she had nothing to do with the violation?! This is just to draw sympathy. If her daughter committed the violation, why isn't the daughter in Jail then?
06 May 2017, 03:23
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she committed the violation alright and thought she would get away with it being shia first and an old woman second and fabricated the cancer story third.
05 May 2017, 22:36
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The story being reported is not complete. Why would Nabatiyeh prosecutor Ghada Bou Karroum have an issue with a 75 year old woman if she was not guilty?! But what is more pathetic is the Justice Minister's and Hezbollah's interference in the Judge's decision.
05 May 2017, 22:49
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It looks like prosecutor Ghada Bou Karroum was jealous of the 75 year old shia woman hitting on her husband or boyfriend.
06 May 2017, 07:01
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If their grandmothers are outlaws, what do you expect their children and grandchildren to be? Terrorists
06 May 2017, 13:53
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Every illegal construction should be bulldozed ASAP. this includes those who were built during the civil war era. Without such drastic measures, these people will still be above the Lebanese Republic's laws.
06 May 2017, 14:25
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The Houthian granny is as guilty as hell. Mark aka Jaafar messaged me on WhatsApp and asked me to join him at the Justice Palace to demonstrate against his grandmother Khadija's arrest. I could not believe it when he told me his grandmother beat up the ISF and threatened them with violence.
This is a prime example why Houthians should be deported back to Houthia and have no place to live among civilized people.
Ba3ed Na2is!
06 May 2017, 18:18
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توقيف أحد الضالعين الأساسيين في عمليات سرقة السيارات
“ضمن إطار مكافحة عمليات سرقة السيارات في مختلف المناطق اللبنانية، ونتيجةً للمتابعة والرصد، تمكنت دورية من مكتب مكافحة جرائم السرقات الدولية في وحدة الشرطة القضائية، بتاريخ 5/5/2017، من توقيف أحد الضالعين بهذه السرقات، وذلك في محلة حي السلم/الضاحية الجنوبية، ويدعى: – ع. ش. (مواليد عام 1982، لبناني).
وبالتحقيق معه، اعترف بما نسب إليه، إضافةً إلى مشاركته في عمليات نقل سيارات مسروقة وتسليمها الى أحد الاشخاص في بلدة بريتال البقاعية، ليصار الى تهريبها خارج الاراضي اللبنانية، وذلك بالاشتراك مع آخرين، أوقف أحدهم بتاريخٍ سابق من قبل شعبة المعلومات، والعمل مستمر لتوقيف البقية.
https://www.lebanese-forces.com/2017/05/06/security-forces-287/
07 May 2017, 09:48
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This article will pose a dilemma for gigahabil and his shia crowd: how can they spin the khadijah Assad incident and market it as a common occurrence of something that happens regularly in sunni or christian area.
