Abused Lebanese women also victims of legal system
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BEIRUT — It was only a few months after their wedding in Lebanon that Suha’s husband began what would be eight years of brutal beatings that left her bruised, bleeding and all but broken.
But two years ago, she decided to take matters — and her three children — into her own hands, in a country that has yet to pass a bill criminalizing domestic abuse and marital rape and where women are banned from granting their children citizenship.
“For many years I was stuck and felt I had no choice but to suffer in silence,” Suha, 31 and now divorced, told AFP, asking that her real name not be used.
“I could not go back to my parents’ home because to them, divorce would bring shame to the family and they could not take me in with three children,” she added..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110815com3.html
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