Showing posts with label Proud Lebanese exports. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Proud Lebanese exports. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Lebanese wife of Hannibal Gadhafi tortured Ethiopian domestic worker
Luxury, horror lurk in Gadhafi family compound, by Dan Rivers, CNN Correspondent, Tripoli, Libya
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At first I thought she was wearing a hat and something over her face. Then the awful realization dawned that her entire scalp and face were covered in red wounds and scabs, a mosaic of injuries that rendered her face into a grotesque patchwork.
Even though the burns were inflicted three months ago, she was clearly still in considerable pain. But she told us her story calmly.
She'd been the nanny to Hannibal's little son and daughter.
The 30-year-old came to Libya from her native Ethiopia a year ago. At first things seemed OK, but then six months into her employment she said she was burned by Aline [Skaff*].
Three months later the same thing happened again, this time much more seriously.
In soft tones, she explained how Aline lost her temper when her daughter wouldn't stop crying and Mullah refused to beat the child.
"She took me to a bathroom. She tied my hands behind my back, and tied my feet. She taped my mouth, and she started pouring the boiling water on my head like this," she said, imitating the vessel of scalding hot water being poured over her head.
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* Aline Skaf is a Lebanese actor born in 1980 in Sebaal in Lebanon.
Full article:Luxury, horror lurk in Gadhafi family compound, by Dan Rivers, CNN Correspondent, Tripoli, Libya
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At first I thought she was wearing a hat and something over her face. Then the awful realization dawned that her entire scalp and face were covered in red wounds and scabs, a mosaic of injuries that rendered her face into a grotesque patchwork.
Even though the burns were inflicted three months ago, she was clearly still in considerable pain. But she told us her story calmly.
She'd been the nanny to Hannibal's little son and daughter.
The 30-year-old came to Libya from her native Ethiopia a year ago. At first things seemed OK, but then six months into her employment she said she was burned by Aline [Skaff*].
Three months later the same thing happened again, this time much more seriously.
In soft tones, she explained how Aline lost her temper when her daughter wouldn't stop crying and Mullah refused to beat the child.
"She took me to a bathroom. She tied my hands behind my back, and tied my feet. She taped my mouth, and she started pouring the boiling water on my head like this," she said, imitating the vessel of scalding hot water being poured over her head.
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* Aline Skaf is a Lebanese actor born in 1980 in Sebaal in Lebanon.
Full article:Luxury, horror lurk in Gadhafi family compound, by Dan Rivers, CNN Correspondent, Tripoli, Libya
Monday, May 23, 2011
Civil suit against Lebanon’s ambassador in US, accused of underpaying and verbally abusing his maid, dismissed
As a follow up to our initial coverage on this case in the United States, here's the outcome of the civil suite against Lebanese ambassador:
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The issue has come up in recent years in civil cases in the United States. Three domestic workers employed by foreign diplomats in the United States have filed federal lawsuits alleging they were underpaid or physically and verbally abused. The workers claimed that their diplomatic employers violated the Fair Labor Standards, and that they are not exempt from prosecution under the Vienna Conventions' exemption for "commercial activity ... outside his official functions." But federal judges have dismissed all of the cases. Most recently, on April 26, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg in Washington threw out a case alleging that Lebanese Ambassador Antoine Chedid and his wife underpaid and verbally abused their maid. His decision relied, in part, on a State Department filing in a separate case, which found that hiring household workers for assistance during diplomatic service is covered by the Vienna Convention's immunity provisions.
On March 25, four former employees of a senior Qatari diplomat in the United States filed a similar abuse case, which also alleges sexual assault, in federal district court in Washington.
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Full article: Immunity defense would be hard for Strauss-Kahn
Friday, April 22, 2011
Oh yes! Lebanese ambassador in US facing lawsuit for failing to pay minimum wage, abusing domestic worker
From the blog of Legal Times
April 19, 2011
April 19, 2011
Scope of Diplomatic Immunity Challenged in Lawsuit Against Lebanese Ambassador
The attorney for a former housekeeper to the Lebanese ambassador to the United States is challenging the scope of diplomatic immunity laws, arguing that domestic work is outside of commercial activities relating to diplomatic responsibilities that are protected against litigation.
The Lebanese ambassador, Antoine Chedid, is facing a lawsuit (PDF) in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia brought by his family's former housekeeper, Aracli Montuya, who claims the Chedid family failed to pay minimum wage and verbally abused and mistreated her. Montuya worked in the ambassador’s residence from August 2007 to September 2009.
Chedid, represented by Mary Gately of Washington’s DLA Piper, has argued in a motion to dismiss (PDF) that he and his family are immune from such litigation by the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, which provides immunity against criminal, civil and administrative litigation for diplomats and their families.
In a status hearing today before U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, who recently took over the case in late March from U.S. District Judge Richard Roberts, Montuya’s attorney, Silver Spring, Md.-based solo practitioner Laurence Johnson, said he planned
The Lebanese ambassador, Antoine Chedid, is facing a lawsuit (PDF) in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia brought by his family's former housekeeper, Aracli Montuya, who claims the Chedid family failed to pay minimum wage and verbally abused and mistreated her. Montuya worked in the ambassador’s residence from August 2007 to September 2009.
Chedid, represented by Mary Gately of Washington’s DLA Piper, has argued in a motion to dismiss (PDF) that he and his family are immune from such litigation by the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, which provides immunity against criminal, civil and administrative litigation for diplomats and their families.
In a status hearing today before U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, who recently took over the case in late March from U.S. District Judge Richard Roberts, Montuya’s attorney, Silver Spring, Md.-based solo practitioner Laurence Johnson, said he planned
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