Police announced on Thursday that they have freed a Syrian woman who was abused by her father and brother and chained in their house in the eastern Bekaa Valley.
The 20-year old woman, who was identified by her initials as M. Ch., said in her testimony that on Tuesday her father and brother dragged her out of her husband's house in Ghazir, beat her and chained her foot to the stove.
The men also destroyed her identification documents after they threatened to kill her, as she claimed.
Consequently, the police arrested the father and found the key to the chain lock.
While questioning him, the father confessed that he held his daughter captive for returning to her husband's house without his consent.
This as the ISF announced that investigations are ongoing to arrest the woman’s brother.