{"id":228795,"date":"2019-08-30T19:00:22","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T23:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=228795"},"modified":"2019-08-30T19:00:22","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T23:00:22","slug":"jordanian-who-mauled-wife-in-davao-faces-deportation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/08\/30\/jordanian-who-mauled-wife-in-davao-faces-deportation\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordanian who mauled wife in Davao faces deportation"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_144422\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-144422\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/640px-Bureau_of_Immigration_Building_Intramuros.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-144422\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/640px-Bureau_of_Immigration_Building_Intramuros.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/640px-Bureau_of_Immigration_Building_Intramuros.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/640px-Bureau_of_Immigration_Building_Intramuros-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/640px-Bureau_of_Immigration_Building_Intramuros-20x13.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-144422\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BI Intelligence Division acting chief Fortunato S. Manahan Jr. said Kamal Isam Kamal Abu Beih was arrested by operatives of the bureau\u2019s Mindanao Intelligence Task Group (MITG) on August 9. (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=28687295\">File Photo By Elmer B. Domingo &#8211; Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 The Bureau of Immigration (BI) on Friday reported the arrest of a 39-year-old Jordanian national in Davao City for beating up his Filipina wife and working in the country without a permit.<\/p>\n<p>BI Intelligence Division acting chief Fortunato S. Manahan Jr. said Kamal Isam Kamal Abu Beih was arrested by operatives of the bureau\u2019s Mindanao Intelligence Task Group (MITG) on August 9.<\/p>\n<p>He added that Commissioner Jaime Morente issued a mission order for the foreigner\u2019s arrest after his estranged wife, who was not identified, complained about the physical assault that happened two months ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe narrated that her husband continued to threaten and harass her at the police headquarters where she filed a complaint and reported the incident,\u201d Manahan said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe will be deported because we cannot allow undesirable aliens to physically harm and trample on the dignity of our Filipino women,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, BI Intelligence Officer Melody Gonzales, BI-MITG head, said the Jordanian was also working in the country without the proper visa.<\/p>\n<p>It was found out that he owned and operated a shawarma business at the Roxas night market in the city.<\/p>\n<p>She added that the couple\u2019s relationship turned sour after the Jordanian left his wife, with whom she is married since 2007, supposedly to live with another woman.<\/p>\n<p>The BI official said the victim claimed that her husband physically attacked her during a heated argument in their house last June 27, where he strangled and almost choked her to death.<\/p>\n<p>The attack happened in the presence of their minor children, she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven when they were already at the police station, subject continued to threaten her, disrespecting the police officers who investigated the incident,\u201d Gonzales said in her report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2014 The Bureau of Immigration (BI) on Friday reported the arrest of a 39-year-old Jordanian national in Davao City for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":144422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ferdinand-patinio","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228795","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=228795"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228797,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228795\/revisions\/228797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}