Resigned Justice Minister Ashraf Rifi told LBCI Friday that he had sent to the Public Prosecution a letter whereby he requested to bring the ruling issued against the husband of Manal Assi before the Court of Cassation, should the tribunal find any legal reasons for that.
In July, the Judge presiding over Beirut’s Criminal Court, Helene Iskandar, granted the killer a mitigating excuse and reduced his sentence from death penalty to five years in prison, including the period of his detention, after considering that he was in a state of rage when he committed the crime.
Lebanese citizen Manal Assi, 33, was one of the victims of domestic violence.
She was cruelly tortured by her husband for more than 2 hours before he took her to al-Maqased Hospital where she died of her wounds on February 5, 2014.
Two months later, an indictment was issued against her husband Mohammad Nouheili, convicting him of murder, and sentencing him to death in accordance with the article 549 of the Penal Code.
The said article stipulates that intentional murder shall be punished by death penalty.