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The Daily Star
November 3, 2017
The body of a 50-year-old woman was found at a resort in Maameltein, state-run National News Agency reported Friday. you've reached a subscriber-only article. Sign up now and access the full breadth of The Daily Star content in minutes. subscribe now unrestricted access 1 month...$12 | 3 months.
Al-Arabiya
June 23, 2017
For years, Rihawi had managed Chez Maurice and Silver, two of the most infamous brothels in Maameltein, a coastal town known as Lebanon's red light district. Prostitution is illegal in Lebanon, and police shuttered both locations in April 2016 in one of the most high-profile busts the country has seen.
The Phuket News
May 14, 2016
For years, he had managed Chez Maurice and Silver, two of the most infamous brothels in Maameltein, a town known as Lebanon's red light district. Prostitution is illegal in Lebanon, and police shuttered both locations earlier this month. Wringing her hands and chain-smoking cigarettes, Soha says she andÃâà...
The Guardian
April 29, 2016
Maameltein, the suburb of Jounieh where the women were imprisoned, has long been known as Lebanon's red-light district, the seaside resort's streets peppered with casinos and “super-nightclubs” frequented by foreign visitors and Lebanese. Many of the women who work there come into the countryÃâà...
The National
April 24, 2016
Last month, Lebanese police raided a sex-trafficking ring in Maameltein, a seaside town about 20 kilometres north of Beirut, and found dozens of women locked up in prison-like brothels. The 75 women, most of them Syrian, were lured with the promise of jobs at hotels and restaurants in Lebanon's mostÃâà...
Al-Arabiya
April 18, 2016
For years, he had managed Chez Maurice and Silver, two of the most infamous brothels in Maameltein, a town known as Lebanon's red light district. Prostitution is illegal in Lebanon, and police shuttered both locations earlier this month. Wringing her hands and chain-smoking cigarettes, Soha says she andÃâà...
The Daily Star
April 12, 2016
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Ya Libnan
November 2, 2015
wet club, maameltein, Jounieh A shootout erupted early Monday as Lebanese forces raided a nightclub north of Beirut, leaving eight people dead, including two army troops and at least one member of a notorious crime family, the state-run news agency and the Lebanese army said. First-Sergeant MarounÃâà...
The Daily Star
November 2, 2015
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