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Case of Murdered/Killed Ofws: Death by Hanging

Joanna Demafelis was a Filipina domestic worker in Kuwait who went missing in 2016. Her body was later found in the freezer of the apartment where she worked. She had been employed without proper documentation by a Lebanese and Syrian couple in Kuwait. The Syrian court found her employers guilty of murder and sentenced them to death in absentia. Her murder highlighted issues of illegal recruitment and abuse of migrant workers in Kuwait.

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Case of Murdered/Killed Ofws: Death by Hanging

Joanna Demafelis was a Filipina domestic worker in Kuwait who went missing in 2016. Her body was later found in the freezer of the apartment where she worked. She had been employed without proper documentation by a Lebanese and Syrian couple in Kuwait. The Syrian court found her employers guilty of murder and sentenced them to death in absentia. Her murder highlighted issues of illegal recruitment and abuse of migrant workers in Kuwait.

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Name: Flores, Christian G.

Course and Year: BsArch-2A

Schedule: 3:00-4:00 MWF

Case of Murdered/Killed OFWs

1. Cite the name of the OFW and the place of work


 The name of the OFW is Joanna Demafelis and she worked in Kuwait

2. Cite whether he/she is legally authorized to work abroad (documented OFW)


 Joanna asked her aunt from distant to help her so that she can work abroad and according
to the article, Joanna may have been a victim of illegal recruitment.

3. Place of work, whether in hospital, factory, house helper, etc.


 She was a domestic helper/house helper in Kuwait.

4. Years of working abroad


 Joanna starded working on the year of 2014 and her last communication with her family
was on 2016.

5. Cite the case (from start up to the present)


 In the first story of the family of Demafelis, Joanna earned enough money for being a
housekeeper in  Parañaque for the she will be able to send home to her parents in Sara,
Iloilo. But after the super typhoon Yolanda, she and her family was homeless that led her
decisions to work in other country for her family. She asked helped for her aunt that
made her able to work in Kuwait. After the last call in 2016 with her family, they never
heard anything from her again so they asked help from OWWA and POEA but they
failed to find Joanna and her recruitment agency, Our Lady of Mt Carmel Global E-
Human Resources Incorporated, had already closed. But, Kuwaiti authorities found her
body in the freezer of the apartment where she worked. Her employers, Lebanese Nader
Essam Assa and his Syrian wife, Mona Hassoun had been arrested in the Syrian capital
of Damascus. On March 3, 2018 Joanna was laid to rest in her hometown.

6. Decision of the court if there was any


 Syrian court finds Joanna Demafelis' employer guilty of murder. In April 2018, the two
suspect sentenced, in absentia, to death by hanging over Demafelis' murder.

7. If possible, the photo of the person be attached


8. Write the source of information

https://www.rappler.com/newsbreak/in-depth/197347-death-homecoming-joanna-demafelis-ofw-kuwait

https://www.rappler.com/nation/239689-syrian-court-finds-joanna-demafelis-employer-guilty-murder

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/04/03/how-a-maid-found-dead-in-a-freezer-
set-off-a-diplomatic-clash-between-the-philippines-and-kuwait/

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