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A year ago, a woman named Alem Dechasa committed suicide by hanging herself in her room at Der El-Salib mental hospital. Four days prior, she was kidnapped by her owner, her master, Ali Mahfouz.

He took her by her hair and dragged her to the car. She resisted, so he asked a friend to help him and they both force her in, through the window. The scene was filmed and people were shocked. Anger was thrown at the men and women who stood by without doing anything, and words of disgust were directed at Ali Mahfouz, and rightly so.

English | March 21, 2013

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