{"id":230152,"date":"2019-09-09T20:56:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T00:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=230152"},"modified":"2019-09-09T20:56:25","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T00:56:25","slug":"syrian-court-finds-demafelis-employer-guilty-of-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/09\/09\/syrian-court-finds-demafelis-employer-guilty-of-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Syrian court finds Demafelis employer guilty of murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_154036\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-154036\" style=\"width: 1350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Joanna-Demafelis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-154036\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Joanna-Demafelis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Joanna-Demafelis.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Joanna-Demafelis-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Joanna-Demafelis-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Joanna-Demafelis-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-154036\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: A Lebanese national and his Syrian wife were sentenced to death by hanging in absentia by a Kuwaiti court on Sunday over the death of their Filipina maid whose body was found inside a freezer in an abandoned apartment in Kuwait. (RICHARD MADELO\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The co-accused in the slaying of Filipina household worker Joanna Demafelis was found guilty of murder by the Syrian District Criminal Court, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) reported Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe DFA-Office of the Undersecretary for Migrant Workers&#8217; Affairs reports that the Syrian District Criminal Court found Mouna Ali Hassoun, accused in the Joana Demafelis case, guilty of murder,\u201d it said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(The) DFA will continue to provide legal assistance to the family until justice is served,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>Hassoun&#8217;s co-accused Lebanese husband, Nader Essam Assaf, was also charged with murder in Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>Hassoun is expected to be meted with a prison sentence ranging from eight to 15 years. The couple was earlier tried in absentia, found guilty of murder and meted the death penalty in Kuwait.<\/p>\n<p>Undersecretary Arriola said the DFA will continue to provide legal assistance to the family until justice is served.<\/p>\n<p>Demafelis was found frozen inside the abandoned apartment of Hassoun and her husband in Al-Shaab, Kuwait last year.<\/p>\n<p>Autopsy showed Demafelis was beaten and tortured repeatedly, and that before she was stored in a freezer, she was already dead.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery of her body, believed to have been kept inside the freezer for more than a year, sparked outrage in the country and led to the previous deployment ban of new Filipino workers to Kuwait.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippine News Agency had sought the DFA for more details regarding the Syrian Court&#8217;s decision, but the department has yet to respond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The co-accused in the slaying of Filipina household worker Joanna Demafelis was found guilty of murder by the Syrian &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":154036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","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\/230152","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230156,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230152\/revisions\/230156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}