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The husband, murderer of Rula Yaacub to face trial

11-1-2017

Finally, and after about 7 months, the Court of Cassation, headed by Judge Joseph Samaha, rejected yesterday the appeal by the husband of the victim Rula Yaacub, who is accused of  her murder, (c.f. http://www.lkdg.org/ar/node/10747), and referred the husband to the criminal court in the North with the charge of causing death. It is noteworthy that the accusatory body in the North has issued on May 12, 2016 its decision in the case of Yaacub, which consisted of accusing her husband of causing her death, and it issued simultaneously a warrant for his arrest, annulling by that the previous decision, issued by the investigative judge in the North Ala'a Al Khatib in January,2014, which halted trial of the accused for insufficient evidence, and ordered his release, disregarding many pieces of evidence provided by witnesses. This decision received positive reactions on the part of those following the case.  The media officer of Kafa, (Enough Violence and Exploitation), Maya Ammar noted that the decision is the second made by the Court of Cassation, that does justice to the rights of women and corrects the "suspicious' track that has accompanied the case in the past, reminding of the decision of the criminal Cassation Court which repealed the verdict of the Criminal Court in Beirut (headed by Judge Hilaneh Iskandar) in the murder of Manal Assi. (Al-Akhbar, January 11, 2017)
 
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