Ayat Al-Rifai.. The crime in Damascus and echoes in the Arab world
The name of the Syrian young woman, Ayat Al-Rifai, topped the social networking sites in the Arab world after revealing the circumstances of her death at the hands of her husband on New Year's Eve after being tortured, and her name was transformed from a victim of violence inside Syria to a point of debate on an Arab scale about the rights of women who are "continuously subjected to all kinds of violence." haunted by it.”
The hashtag #Haq_Ayat_Al-Rifai was published on social media in a number of Arab countries, and users demanded the most severe penalties for the perpetrators.
Others said, "There is no punishment on the face of this earth that can repay the right of the verses of Al-Rifai and all the wrongdoings like them."
Tweeters called for a protest stop to demand retribution from the killer in front of the Ministry of Interior in Damascus.
Ayat's case re-talked about the crisis of battered women in Arab societies, amid calls for enacting laws that would protect women from violence, especially from their families and those close to them.
Activists called for "the hospital officials to be held accountable for concealing the crime in the beginning and to protect the young woman's husband and his family, especially since Ayat's ambulance was taken two hours after her death, even though her house is minutes away from the hospital, which calls into question the reason for the delay," they said.
Many considered that Ayat is not only a victim of her husband's injustice, but rather a victim of society's injustice.
According to "BBC".
The story of the heinous crime began on New Year's Eve, with the arrival of the young woman, Ayat Al-Rifai, to the Al-Mujtahid Hospital, in the center of the capital, Damascus, with fatal bruises on her body.
A source in the hospital said, with the arrival of a dead young woman, and then preliminary investigations revealed that “she died two hours before her arrival at the hospital,” according to press reports.
Many accounts on the communication platforms published details, some of them conflicting, about the story. The “Syrian Feminist” page on “Twitter” transmitted details of one of the victim’s neighbors, saying: “The boy was a maid for the family, from cleaning the house, washing, evaporating, cooking, and dumping rubbish to stand on the bread floor while she was pregnant.” .
She added, "She is always severely beaten by her mother-in-law, her husband and the son of her predecessor, and she is forbidden to visit her family except rarely because her husband does not allow her to take her daughter with her."
And according to the neighbor’s words, “her husband, the beast, started beating her, and she was crying and saying, Karmal God, do not marry me. What do you want with your work, but do not marry? He kept hitting her and hitting her head in the wall until she vomited and passed out.”
The neighbor stated that “the husband’s family delayed transporting Ayat to the hospital for more than an hour and a half until they arranged a false account of her death, and that they gave bribes to the hospital in order to settle the death as if it was suicide or an accident, noting that the husband was arrested for one day and came out as if he had not committed a crime. guilty.”
On the official level, the first public defender in Damascus, Adib Al-Mahayni, stated that the security authorities had arrested those involved in the murder of the young woman, Ayat Al-Rifai.
In a statement to a local media outlet, he said, "The forensic report confirmed that Ayat was subjected to brutal assault and several blows to the head, and she did not hit her head against the wall, as her husband and family claimed when she was transferred to the hospital."
He added that the husband, his father and his mother, who confessed to their actions, were arrested and referred to the judiciary.
And the BBC website quoted the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: “Ayat Al-Rifai is not the first victim of violence by the husband, but rather she is one of the thousands of Syrian victims who are subjected to violence by the husband, but her case turned into public opinion while Many women are subjected to violence and beatings, and their surroundings do not move even the fathers and mothers.”
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