Man shoots his wife in Aramoon after subjecting her to 20 years of violence

Sara Al Ameen joined the growing list of domestic violence victims in Lebanon this year when her husband, Ali Zein, shot her dead in front of her six kids in their home in Dohat Aramoon south of Beirut, Tuesday morning. Security forces arrested the perpetrator who was taken to the police station for investigation under the supervision of Appellate Lawyer in charge of domestic violence cases, Judge Ghada Abu Alwan. The victim’s attorney, Ashraf Musawi, said the culprit lured his wife to their marital house after kicking her off previously while keeping her identity papers with him, and then he celebrated the birthday of one of their daughters before firing some 17 bullets into his wife’s body using an assault rifle. Musawi has in the past filed a lawsuit against the husband for beating and torturing as well as for other domestic violence charges, but the husband did not comply. He said the murdered wife has been for 20 years putting up with ill-treatment and beating by her husband who banned her from visiting her parents’ house. (Al Akhbar, Al Diyar, 20 May 2015)