75 women forced into sex slavery.

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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-35957845


Full Story: https://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Leban ... eport.ashx

The article: The doctor complicit in performing 200 abortions on 75 emancipated sex slaves was arrested Friday as part of a widening crackdown on the organized criminal network, identifying the suspects who remain at large.

Security sources told The Daily Star that the doctor who offered his services to the criminal network has been arrested and identified as Riad Alam. He was assisted by his clinic’s nurse, J.A. Together they performed some 200 abortion procedures on the 75 enslaved women.

Sources indicated that all of the victims were Syrian nationals. The number of minors among them remains unclear.

When the Internal Security Forces this week raided the apartments and nightclubs where the women were being housed, two suspects managed to flee the scene. They have now been identified as Imad al-Rihawi, a Syrian national, and Ali Hassan Zeaiter, a Lebanese.

The pair acted as brokers for the gang. Their contacts in Syria would procure the women and arrange a meeting. They would then smuggle their victims into Lebanon and transfer them to apartments and nightclubs owned by Maurice Geagea.

Authorities have indicated that the victims have been transferred to a number of NGOs that specialize in women’s rights. Most of the organizations have been reluctant to talk to the media before the ISF concludes its investigation, out of fear for the victims’ safety.

We don’t know the reach of this criminal network and there are security concerns, said a member of prominent women’s rights NGO.
Caritas Lebanon prefers not to disclose any particular information in order to preserve the security of the victims while the investigation is still underway,” the charity replied when contacted for comment by The Daily Star. It also cited security concerns and stressed the need to maintain the confidentiality of victims.

Ghada Jabbour, co-founder of KAFA Violence and Exploitation and the head of the Exploitation and Trafficking in Women Unit said she hopes the case will be a turning point for judicial reform in Lebanon.

[As it stands, we have an anti-human trafficking law which runs in parallel to a penal law barring prostitution,] she said. [The judiciary treats the prostitutes as criminals even though they are almost always forced into it ... We hope that such a case, and the obvious fact that these women were victims, changes that mentality.]

She decried the dismal services provided by the state and said that NGOs are tasked with providing the majority of the aid to victims of gender-based violence. Jabbour conceded it is not enough.

KAFA offers social and legal services to victims of domestic abuse and human trafficking. They also provide psychiatric support.

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^^^Here the full story, there are many rumors around about Hezbollah's role in the rescue (as good guys, this time) in the matter. Hezbollah claims that the girls went to this Hezbollah area (Southern Suburbs) thinking it would be the safest - but other sources claim that the van driver he found 4 escaped women in the Jounieh area where they were held (a very Christian city btw) , he offered them to take them to the Southern Suburbs where he lives (claiming to be wanting to help and maybe he's a hezbollah himself) and apparently he attempted to exploit them himself but their screams were heard by neighbors nearby, who have called the local hezbollah militiamen who in return called the police. I dunno what to believe, media is full of propaganda from both sides.


PS: I had to remove some punctuation to bypass this stupid captcha thing.

I wouldn't believe anything that the murdering Islamic fascists of Hezbollah say.

Something doesn't add up much.

Here an article talks about Hezbollah's involvement:


Some of the 75 Syrian sex slaves rescued last week from brothels in a Lebanese coastal town had been *rented* by clients for months at a time in exchange for up to $20,000, a report said Monday.

A few days after the Internal Security Forces busted a ring enslaving the girls in Jounieh, Al-Akhbar published a report detailing their accounts.

According to the report, one of the pimps, Emad Al-Rihawi, nicknamed The Executioner, would negotiate the price to rent out the girls with customers. The girls had no say in the matter.

He would charge between $1,000 and $3,000 to reserve a girl for one month, or $20,000 for a lengthy period.

The report also describes Hezbollah’s involvement in helping the ISF track down the ring after four of the girls escaped to the southern suburbs of Beirut, and informed the group of the atrocities they were facing.

Hezbollah in turn notified the ISF, which began to investigate.

The report said that even the seven female guards who watched over the sex slaves were tricked, as they were promised jobs in restaurants or beauty salons when they left Syria for Lebanon.

ISF spokesperson Jospeh Mousallem told the BBC that members of the gang would travel to Syria and show that they had a lot of money to recruit the girls, promising them work in Lebanon.

Upon arrival [to Lebanon], that's when the slavery begins. Their freedom is taken away, they are locked up, their mobile phones are taken, they work for nothing, he said.

One of the victims interviewed in the BBC report published Monday said she endured the torture starting two years ago at the age of 16.

At first it was very hard. I would cry whenever clients came, so they would choose another girl. I thought of killing myself or running away, but the place was guarded, she said.

She added that the pimp would come see how much money she earned in the mornings.

If it wasn't enough he would accuse me of not wanting to work and he would beat me. If I moved around a lot while he was beating me he would tie me to the table, she added.

Girls cited in the Al-Akhbar report recounted similar horrors, saying they told police that they were forced to perform all acts demanded by the clients, or face torture.

One girl said she was forced to have sex with a client 15 times in one day, and did not receive any money.

They said the pimps would pocket all the cash. One watch girl told police she was promised that money would be sent to her family in Syria.

The report said that police raids first targeted the Chez Maurice and Silver night clubs in the Maameltein district in Jounieh, north of Beirut, in October 2015.

For five months, investigators listened to the accounts of around 14 girls in their attempt to dismantle the ring. During that period, they did not tell police they were being tortured, as Rihawi convinced them that government agents were in his pocket.

Last week, the ISF announced that police had freed the 75 girls held against their will and forced into sexual slavery in fresh raids. The pimps, guards and a doctor who performed about 200 abortions over a period of four years on the girls, have been arrested.

The girls were then sent to NGOs specialized in providing care for abuse victims, including KAFA and Caritas.

Lisa Abou Khaled, UNHCR's Lebanon spokesperson, told the BBC that her organization is evaluating the needs of the girls, and that they are being provided with health care and psychological counseling.

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It is possible (According to another article I've read but it's in Arabic) that when things went public, after the 4 escaped girls' screams were heard by neighbors coming from the apartment of the so-called savior, then hezbollah had no choice but to release them and to call the police for a good publicity.

Something doesn't add up, why 4 Syrian women escaping from sex slavery would go to a radical islamist party for asking help.

Also these amounts of money (ie.$20000) is not something a common local can afford, some wealthy clientele is involved in this, It wouldn't surprise me if there are Saudi clients involved too.