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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on April 01, 2018, 03:34:11 pm
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Kuwait court sentences couple to death for Filipina maid's murder
MEE and agencies
The killing of 29-year-old Joanna Demafelis sparked a diplomatic crisis between Kuwait and the Philipines
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Residents of Joanna Demafelis' hometown await the arrival of her body. The 29-year-old Filipina maid was killed and found inside a freezer in Kuwait (Reuters)
Sunday 1 April 2018 11:44 UTC
Last update: Sunday 1 April 2018 12:04 UTC
A Kuwaiti court has sentenced a Lebanese man and his Syrian wife to death after they were convicted in absentia of killing a Filipina maid in a case that triggered a crisis between the Philippines and the Gulf Arab state, Kuwaiti newspapers reported on Sunday.
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte last month ordered workers in Kuwait to return home over alleged abuse following the discovery of 29-year-old Joanna Demafelis’s body in a freezer in the abandoned home of a Lebanese man and his Syrian wife.
Kuwaiti newspaper al-Rai said the pair were convicted in absentia of premeditated murder. Al-Qabas, another newspaper, said the criminal court issued its verdict at its first hearing, convicting the pair of "killing the Filipina worker and putting her body in the freezer".
Read more at: http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/kuwait-court-sentences-couple-death-filipina-maids-murder-1366620239 (http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/kuwait-court-sentences-couple-death-filipina-maids-murder-1366620239)
Good to see some justice done even though the couple is NOT in custody in Kuwait; but apparently, they are being held in Syria and Lebanon per the article. The article also says that there are 252,000 Filipinos and Filipinas working in Kuwait, while there are a large number of such workers in Qatar, United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.
It's often in the news, about these kinds of workers in these countries.
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I'll be surprised if either of them get returned to Kuwait to face their just rewards...