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Al-Hurra published details of the attack on the family of journalist Maryam Seif El-Din.
Last Saturday, the phone rang for Lebanese journalist Maryam Seif El-Din. She is his sister, informs him that someone is trying to attack family members and recommends that he be careful. The attacks against Maryam and her family are not new, and they are frequent and continuous by her relative, her uncle in particular. María is prepared for situations like this that have been repeated for 6 years, under the pretext of disagreeing about an inheritance, while she and her family insist that there is no disagreement about the inheritance and “even if it exists, this does not justify our death threat all the time”.
Soon, Maryam opened surveillance cameras in front of the house in Burj Al-Barajneh in the southern suburbs of Beirut, an area controlled by Hezbollah and considered its area of influence and subject to its control rather than subject to the rule of law. The images, which Maryam later posted, show that someone is cursing her family and assaulting her mother, after her brother beat her and broke her nose.
Who is this person? His name is Ahmed Shaito, and he is, as Maryam describes him, “one of the thugs who is in charge of fabricating a problem or assaulting someone and doing suspicious things for someone’s benefit” Who assigned him? She responds: “My mother’s brother, Ali Hussein Saifuddin and his sons, Zulfikar and Hussein.”
During the attack on Maryam’s brother, he threatened to kill him, as Maryam tells the Al-Hurra website. She says: “While attacking my brother, Shaito tells him that I am going to kill you, while Shaito’s wife tells her husband to go home and get his gun.” She adds: “I’m on the way home I called the police guard in Al-Marija and told them that there are those who are attacking us and threatening us with death, so they said that they only move according to a signal, when I answered that my Brother was in danger, they asked if there were deaths and injuries, and they did not interact, as if the threat was not enough. Hitting and drawing weapons to intervene in the arrest of the aggressor. “
When Mariam arrived at the house, Shaito had returned, thinking that only Mariam’s brother and father were in the house. She says: “When he saw me, he was shocked. I just called a colleague of mine to tell him what was happening, and he was confused and turned around, yelled threatening my brother with being killed, and attacked my mother when she tried to defend his son. He threatened to kill him publicly and clearly. ”Maryam recalls that Shaito himself“ previously sent someone who attacked my brother 5 years ago and we filed a complaint against him, but the case has not been investigated ”.
What is striking in the novel is that when Shaito found out that the police were coming, he only left the scene and went to the police station to complain about Maryam and her family. When Mariam arrived at the Al-Marija police station, the officers treated her as a defendant, not a plaintiff, and she was prevented from communicating with her lawyer before she entered to hear her testimony.
Maryam says: “When I entered, I repeated the request to him to arrange the investigation that I wanted to contact my lawyer, but he refused. During the investigation, he treated me as if I was the aggressor, and I was verbally abused at the police station in front of the lawyer which came later “.
Of course, Mariam doesn’t know why so much hatred against her family. His mother’s brother doesn’t like them, but at the same time he doesn’t seem to leave them alone, sometimes in the parking lot and sometimes with an Internet connection, and his wife shares it with him, who “told him to unsubscribe from Internet from the roof of the building, although this roof is shared and has no right to ride “. So. “
The Price of Survival … “Obedience to Hezbollah”
His uncle is being bullied by the dominant parties in the region, namely Hezbollah. Zulfikar, a member of the party who had previously claimed that he was a member of State Security, just to show that this was not true. He used this quality to justify his power and abuse of Maria and her family. And it seems that Hezbollah, with its support and coverage of these, is sending a message to Maryam known for her anti-him stances, “since it does not accept that in its environment there are those who criticize it or those who speak out against it.” He neither Maria nor his family. “
Uncle Maryam, who has the political support of Hezbollah, had previously shot at his home six years ago and beat his sister, and admitted this in an investigation that was opened at the time at the Al-Marija police station, and got engaged at that time. Maryam says: “We called him and his brother at the time, but they tried very hard to close the case and delay it. After a while, he assaulted my sister and posted his photos after she was beaten, so there was pressure from the media, so he tried to deny what happened and put things in a limited scope. “
This is not everything. Maryam’s father, in his capacity as a party supporter, and following pressure from his family to move and talk to the party about what is happening, contacted one of the Hezbollah security committee supporters asking them not to interfere in the case, and the answer came to him: “The case is withdrawn from the official courts and we are presented,” says Maryam: “My sister rejected the order and she was the one who presented the case. There were many interventions, and there was a Hezbollah security liaison to the police station, and he had more authority than the police station officer, so he did what he wanted. We pushed hard until the file was transferred. From Al-Marija to the Al-Dahia detachment, there was a serious investigation and he admitted what he had done. Then he promised that he would never be exposed to them again, there was a reconciliation and we dropped the case.
This reconciliation did not last long, and the man once again practiced the act of bullying, armed with his affiliation and relations with Hezbollah, which according to Maryam provides him and his children with the necessary cover in everything he does. She adds: “He has knowledge of the politicians because he works in the horse race, but this time it was clear that he was directly empowering the party and speaking out about it. Furthermore, a month ago it was also discovered that the nephew of the Hezbollah deputy was interfering. and testifying with them in the media. He went with them to the police station. “
Beatings and death threats. There are many questions that are asked, but it is proven that the aggressor is frank about what he is doing, and does not care about the official security authority, because he is protected from the current ruling authority in that region, like Maryam, who does not know Until now, “Why all this hatred against them? He wants revenge on us. I don’t know and I don’t understand. What I know is that the parties allow these people to do what they like. Even the family dispute is not far from its political framework. There is always a party affiliation investment in everything they do against us. “
Maryam and her family are now convinced that staying in this place has become dangerous for their lives. “A permanent drain on us. The place has become unviable, if what do we do in our house? Leave it like that? How will we secure alternative housing?” Maryam raises questions, but there is no answer to them, and of course she doesn’t expect much from the authorities. She and her family are at the mercy of those who are empowered by the divine party, regardless of the problem or their origin, their condition like many, daring to oppose, only nothing more.
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