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Jordan: Father decapitates his two little daughters
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The killer has a criminal history of drug trafficking and domestic abuse
Published: March 07, 2021 12:57
Tawfiq Nasrallah, Senior News Editor, Gulf News
Dubai: In yet another crime shocking the Jordanian community, a father has stabbed to death and decapitated his two little daughters aged 2 and 3 years old in Al Jafr District, Southern Badia, local media reported.
According to well-informed sources, the killer has a criminal history of drug trafficking and domestic abuse. He woke up early on Saturday and slit the throat of his two daughters, the first is two-years-old while the second is three-years-old.
The accused’s brother, the uncle of the two girls, had discovered and reported the incident to the police. He was visiting his brother and once he arrived, he saw bloodstains in front of the house, whose door was left wide open. He got inside and to his shock, he found the two daughters killed, and decapitated. “They were slaughtered like a goat”, he stated.
It is not yet known why the man had committed the crime as he was still at large.
The Jordanian Police have launched an immediate investigation into the incident and are still searching for the perpetrator.
They might also investigate why a drug trafficker and probably a user, and a violent man should be allowed to reside with small children.
Domestic violence
Over the past few years, Jordan has been reporting an upward trend in domestic violence. It is believed that the fraught economic situation is a predominant factor contributing to the high rate of violence and crime in Jordan.
Rates of violence have increased steadily over the past five years, as can be seen through reports of attacks and the crime reports issued by the Public Security Directorate, Professor of Sociology, Hussein Khozai said.
Over the past three years, crime has increased from 22,000 incidents in 2017 to 24,000 in 2018, and 26,000 in 2019, he added.
Courts received a total of 253,000 cases in 2019, according to the Ministry of Justice, and the Family Protection Department received 10,000 domestic violence cases.
Saudi Arabia: 4 men charged with sexually harassing women
Women filmed harassers, posted video on social media
Published: March 17, 2021 02:44
Samir Salama, Associate Editor, Gulf News
Abu Dhabi: Saudi Police have arrested four citizens after they harassed two women in a public place in a Taif shopping centre, police said.
The women took a video of the offence and posted it on social media, according to a Mecca Police spokesperson.
The spokesperson said the security authorities identified the four men, in their 20s and 30s, who appeared in the video, as they were harassing the women with sexual connotations.
“The women filmed and posted a video showing the men harassing them with verbal and indecent signs in a commercial complex in the Taif governorate,” the spokesperson said.
He added legal measures have been taken against them according to article 6 of the Law on Combating Sexual Harassment, to refer them to the Public Prosecution.
In 2018, Saudi Arabia approved a law to criminalise sexual harassment in the kingdom.
The law aims at fighting the crime of harassment, preventing it, punishing perpetrators and protecting victims in order to preserve the privacy, dignity and individual freedoms as guaranteed by Islamic jurisprudence and regulations in place.
It provides for penalties of up to two years in prison and fines which could amount to 100,000 riyals. In some cases, such as repeat offenders, the sentence could be increased to five years in prison and fines of up to 300,000 riyals.
The law, which preserves the anonymity of alleged victims, also criminalises incitement to sexual harassment, as well as falsely reporting an incident to the authorities.
Pakistan pair sentenced to death over motorway gang rape
of French-Pakistani woman
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French-Pakistani woman was attacked in September in front of her small children
Published: March 20, 2021 18:47
AFP
A police officer clears way for a convoy of an anti-terrorism court judge Arshad Hussain Butta arriving at district jail, where the special court setup for the trial of prime suspects in motorway gang-rape case, in Lahore, Pakistan, Saturday, March 20, 2021.
Lahore: A Pakistani court on Saturday sentenced two men to death over the gang rape of a French-Pakistani mother, lawyers said, an attack that prompted nationwide protests and tough new anti-rape legislation.
The woman was attacked in September last year in front of her small children on the side of a motorway after her car ran out of fuel near the southern city of Lahore.
An outpouring of anger was further fuelled by a police chief who chided the victim for driving at night without a male companion.
“They’ve both been handed the death penalty,” Chaudhry Qasim Arain, a lawyer for both men, told AFP after the verdict and sentencing hearing.
The two men would appeal the decision, announced at an anti-terrorism court in Lahore.
The attack and the subsequent demands for better protection of women prompted the government to introduce new legislation, including the establishment of special courts to speed up rape trials and the chemical castration of serial rapists.
Chemical castration of rapists involves using drugs to reduce a person’s libido. It was backed by the country’s Prime Minister Imran Khan but activists said it was unclear how it would act as a deterrent.
The country has an abysmal rape conviction rate, 0.3 per cent.
Pakistan is a deeply conservative nation where victims of sexual abuse often are too afraid to speak out and criminal complaints are frequently not investigated seriously.
The country has an abysmal rape conviction rate, with official data putting it as low as 0.3 per cent.
According to the rights groups Justice Project Pakistan, the number of prisoner executions has fallen in the past few years to 15 in both 2018 and 2019. Many death sentences are later commuted to life imprisonment terms.
At the time of the gang rape, Lahore police chief Umar Sheikh repeatedly berated the victim for driving at night without a man, adding that no one in Pakistani society would “allow their sisters and daughters to travel alone so late”.
Sheikh went on to say the woman - a resident of France - probably “mistook that Pakistani society is just as safe” as her home country.
Thousands took part in protests, demanding justice and an increase in spending on initiatives that improve women’s safety, as well as an end to victim blaming.
Much of Pakistan lives under a patriarchal code of “honour” that systematises the oppression of women and those who supposedly bring “shame” on the family can be subjected to violence or murder.
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