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    Kenya Is Sending Officials To Beirut To Investigate Abuse Cases
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    Kenya Is Sending Officials To Lebanon To Investigate Assault Cases

    By Hussein YassineJuly 30, 2020Updated:April 28, 2021
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    The Kenyan government said Wednesday that it will send officials to Beirut to investigate reports of mistreatment of Kenyan women.

    The move comes following a recent CNN report that shed light on the assault and overcharging accusations that several Kenyan women have put forth against the Kenyan Honorary Consul in Beirut, Sayed Chalouhi.

    According to the report, the Kenyan women who sought their country’s consulate for assistance were physically and verbally assaulted, overcharged, and/or pressured to get involved in sex work by Chalouhi and his assistant Kassem Jaber.

    Kenyan women protesting in Lebanon
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    “We are planning to travel to Lebanon for a fact-finding mission in the first week of August because our airspace is currently closed,” said Halima Mohamud, Kenya’s Ambassador to Kuwait.

    Officially, the Kenyan Embassy in Kuwait is also accredited to Lebanon.

    However, distance prompted the Kenyan government to appoint the Lebanese Honorary Consul to officially represent the African nation in Lebanon, even though he is neither a Kenyan citizen nor a career diplomat.

    Sayed Chalouhi
    Consular Corps

    Some of the Kenyan women who accused Chalouhi of the aforementioned wrongdoings were seeking his help to secure and facilitate their repatriation flights.

    (Kenyan women) are afraid from the consulate and I don’t know why.

    Assistant consul Kassem Jaber

    Instead of helping, the Honorary Consul allegedly overcharged them for essential consular fees and, in some cases, conned the workers for their money, before pressuring them to resort to sex work to cover the overcharged repatriation fees.

    One Kenyan domestic worker, Linda, said that she resorted to cleaning the Consul’s office instead, only for the latter to refuse to pay her afterward.

    Others have reported similar instances of mistreatment and exploitation.

    Sayeh Chalouhi is accused of assaulting Kenyan women
    Chalouhi posing for a photo with the Kenyan Principal Secretary, State Department of Labor. ~Twitter/Kenyan Labor Ministry

    Chalouhi and his assistant have both denied the accusations.

    The Kenyan government’s probing announcement coincides with an urgent request by Human Rights Watch that Lebanon takes steps to abolish the “kafala” sponsorship system and protect the rights of its migrant domestic workers.

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