A march marking International Women's Day on March 8, 2019, in downtown Beirut. (Credit: Nic Frakes/L'Orient Today)
BEIRUT — A source within the Internal Security Forces denied reports on Tuesday that a man accused of kidnapping and beating two women had been released, as was reported Monday by the feminist association and online journal Sharika wa Laken. In a post on its social media, the NGO also claimed that the alleged aggressor is a member of the "Soldiers of God" (or Jnoud al-Rab in Arabic), a far-right extremist Christian group, which the security source indicated has not yet been confirmed.On April 18, the ISF announced that two women held captive in the New Rawda neighborhood of Beirut's eastern suburb had been freed by the police and that their alleged captor, T.F., a 29-year-old Lebanese man, had been arrested. The man is accused of holding the women — one Lebanese and one undocumented — against their will in his apartment for two days....
BEIRUT — A source within the Internal Security Forces denied reports on Tuesday that a man accused of kidnapping and beating two women had been released, as was reported Monday by the feminist association and online journal Sharika wa Laken. In a post on its social media, the NGO also claimed that the alleged aggressor is a member of the "Soldiers of God" (or Jnoud al-Rab in Arabic), a far-right extremist Christian group, which the security source indicated has not yet been confirmed.On April 18, the ISF announced that two women held captive in the New Rawda neighborhood of Beirut's eastern suburb had been freed by the police and that their alleged captor, T.F., a 29-year-old Lebanese man, had been arrested. The man is accused of holding the women — one Lebanese and one undocumented — against their will in his apartment for two...