Nine Lebanese women murdered by partners in single month

As sexual and domestic violence complaints mount, Lebanese women's rights activists fear that violence against women in the country may be rising as women grow emboldened to resist abuse.
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A portrait of British Embassy worker Rebecca Dykes seen during a candle vigil to raise awareness of violence against women and mourn the lives of four women, including Dykes, who were all killed in Lebanon in separate incidents over a single week, Beirut, Lebanon, Dec. 23, 2017. - ANWAR AMRO/AFP/Getty Images
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Florence Massena (Lebanon Pulse)
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Nada Bahlawan was shot and killed by her husband at dawn Jan. 22 in Beirut. The same day, a man stabbed his wife in south Lebanon after a dispute over doing the dishes. On Dec. 16, British diplomat Rebecca Dykes was raped and murdered.

Nine women were killed in December and January by their fiances or husbands. There seems to have been a rise since Dykes was killed, feminist activist Maya Ammar told Al-Monitor. She and others held a vigil in front of Beirut’s National Museum on Jan. 23.

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