Police Free Domestic Violence Victim in Bekaa

Police said on Thursday that they have freed a Syrian woman who was abused by her father and brother and chained in their house in the eastern Bekaa Valley.

A communique issued by the Internal Security Forces said the 20-year-old woman was freed on Wednesday from her parents' house in Tamnin al-Tahta.

She told investigators that on Tuesday her father and brother dragged her out of her husband's house in Ghazir, beat her and chained her foot to the stove.

The two men also destroyed her identification documents after threatening to kill her, she claimed.

Police arrested her father and found the key to the chain lock, said the communique.

According to the ISF, the man said he held his daughter captive for returning to her husband's house without his consent.

The ISF said it is pursuing the woman's brother.