A Lebanese man who beat his wife has been jailed for nine months in the first such conviction under a domestic violence law passed in April. Hussein Ftouni, aged 30, will also be fined 20 million Lebanese pounds ($13,258) for a brutal assault on his 22-year-old wife Tamara Harissi. "It's the first case where the perpetrator has been sentenced under the new law, that we are aware of," Kafa communications coordinator Maya Ammar told AFP.
07-12-2014, 07:33 AM
Lebanese wife-beater convicted under new law
A Lebanese man who beat his wife has been jailed for nine months in the first such conviction under a domestic violence law passed in April. Hussein Ftouni, aged 30, will also be fined 20 million Lebanese pounds ($13,258) for a brutal assault on his 22-year-old wife Tamara Harissi. "It's the first case where the perpetrator has been sentenced under the new law, that we are aware of," Kafa communications coordinator Maya Ammar told AFP.
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