The Syrian employer of an Ilongga worker who was brutally killed in Kuwait has been found guilty for murder, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) announced on Monday, Sept. 9.
“The Syrian District Criminal Court found Mouna Ali Hassoun, accused in the Joana Demafelis case, guilty of murder,” the DFA said in its post on Twitter.
Demafelis was found dead in Feb. last year in a freezer at an apartment where she worked as a household service worker.
The body of Demafelis, a native of Sara, Iloilo, bore torture marks and was kept in the freezer for more than a year, according to the Kuwaiti police.
Hassoun’s Lebanese husband, Nader Essam Assaf, was also charged of murder in Lebanon.
The DFA vowed to “continue to provide legal assistance to the family until justice is served.”
In April 2018, a Kuwaiti court sentenced in absentia the couple to death by hanging.IMT
