(MENAFN) The Philippine foreign secretary stated that one of two suspects in the dreadful death of a Filipina housemaid whose body was found stuffed in a freezer in an apartment in Kuwait has been arrested in Lebanon.
Foreign Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano said in a statement Friday that he has told Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte about the arrest of Lebanese Nader Essam Assaf, but added the latter's Syrian wife, also a suspect, remains at large.
The discovery of Joanna Demafelis's body on Feb. 6 in the freezer in Kuwait City, where it had reportedly been kept for more than a year, has refocused attention on the tragic plight of poor Filipinos working abroad and provoked Duterte to ban the deployment of new Filipino workers to Kuwait, where many abuses have been reported.
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