SYRIA: EMPLOYERS OF MURDERED FILIPINA DOMESTIC SENTENCED TO DEATH

10 September 2019 :

A Syrian court sentenced to death the employers of a Filipina househelper after they were found guilty of her murder in 2017, Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said on 9 September 2019.
Syrian Mouna Ali Hassoun and her Lebanese husband, Nader Essam Assaf, were convicted in January 2018 before the Syrian District Court for the death of Joana Demafelis, whose body was found in a freezer in their abandoned apartment in Kuwait on Feb. 6, 2017. She was reported missing in September 2016.
A Kuwaiti court also sentenced in April 2018 Demafelis’ employers to death by hanging.
 

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