{"id":218751,"date":"2019-06-14T09:25:25","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T13:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=218751"},"modified":"2019-06-14T09:25:25","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T13:25:25","slug":"ph-expresses-utmost-concern-on-raped-filipinas-case-in-kuwait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/06\/14\/ph-expresses-utmost-concern-on-raped-filipinas-case-in-kuwait\/","title":{"rendered":"PH expresses &#8216;utmost concern&#8217; on raped Filipina&#8217;s case in Kuwait"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_191219\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-191219\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/640px-Department_of_Foreign_Affairs_DFA_Roxas_Boulevard_Pasay2017-12-31.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-191219\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/640px-Department_of_Foreign_Affairs_DFA_Roxas_Boulevard_Pasay2017-12-31.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/640px-Department_of_Foreign_Affairs_DFA_Roxas_Boulevard_Pasay2017-12-31.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/640px-Department_of_Foreign_Affairs_DFA_Roxas_Boulevard_Pasay2017-12-31-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/640px-Department_of_Foreign_Affairs_DFA_Roxas_Boulevard_Pasay2017-12-31-20x15.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-191219\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the DFA&#8217;s latest bulletin, Assistant Secretary Emmanuel Fernandez said the victim has already started working for her employer together with three other Filipina household service workers, including a family member. (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=56252750\">File Photo By Patrick Roque, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>&#8212; An official of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) expressed on Friday the Philippine government&#8217;s &#8220;utmost concern&#8221; over the case of a Filipina household worker raped in Kuwait last week.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Affairs Undersecretary for Migrant Workers&#8217; Affairs Sarah Lou Arriola met with Kuwaiti Ambassador to the Philippines Musaed Saleh Ahmad Althwaikh, who assured the official that an all-points bulletin has been issued to police and immigration posts in Kuwait and other Gulf Cooperation Council member states.<\/p>\n<p>Althwaikh said the suspect has been charged with rape under Article 186 of Kuwait Penal Law No. 16\/1960, which states that &#8220;Anyone having sexual intercourse with a woman without her consent, through the use of force, threats or deception, shall be liable to the death penalty or life imprisonment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Althwaikh also noted that the Kuwaiti government is &#8220;exerting all efforts for the speedy arrest of the suspect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the DFA&#8217;s latest bulletin, Assistant Secretary Emmanuel Fernandez said the victim has already started working for her employer together with three other Filipina household service workers, including a family member.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The embassy will continue to provide legal and other necessary assistance to her,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect was identified as Fayed Naser Hamad Alajmy, 22, a Kuwaiti police officer, who assisted the finger scanning registration of the Filipina at the airport upon her arrival on June 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA&#8212; An official of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) expressed on Friday the Philippine government&#8217;s &#8220;utmost concern&#8221; over the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":191219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-joyce-ann-l-rocamora","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218752,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218751\/revisions\/218752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}