{"id":6348,"date":"2014-07-20T08:27:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T08:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/?p=6348"},"modified":"2025-05-27T10:07:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T10:07:42","slug":"ribal-al-assad-condemns-shameful-treatment-of-syrian-boy-by-lebanese-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/es\/ribal-al-assad-condemns-shameful-treatment-of-syrian-boy-by-lebanese-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Ribal Al-Assad condena el vergonzoso trato de una familia libanesa a un ni\u00f1o sirio"},"content":{"rendered":"

Video of child beating boy in Lebanon goes viral<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

AFP<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lebanon has arrested a man who spurred his two-year-old son to beat up a Syrian child after a video of the shocking blows went viral, state media reported on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cousin of the boy named Abbas, who taped the video which was posted online overnight Friday, was also arrested, the National News Agency said, quoting a police statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It identified the victim as a nine-year-old boy from Syria named Khaled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the footage posted by Ya Sour website, Abbas swings a club at Khaled, beating him on various parts of his body, slapping him and kicking him, as adults who are heard but not seen urge him on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Justice Minister Ashraf Rifi ordered an investigation and late on Saturday police arrested “Abbas’s father and his cousin who taped the video after a probe involving online activists,” the news agency said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The video caused outrage across Lebanon with angry comments posted on Facebook and Twitter, and one user saying she was “ashamed of being Lebanese”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the video, Abbas clutches a club with his pudgy hands, hitting the other boy, punching him in the face, slapping him and kicking him in the shin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adults and children offscreen demand a tougher beating and order the boy, who tries repeatedly to shield himself with his arms, to stay still.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Abbas hit him, don’t be afraid,” a male voice says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abbas, who has a pony tail and fine features like a girl, is told to slap the boy and does so, then is told to kick him in the stomach and again complies as if it is a game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The victim whimpers, gets on his knees, implores God and tries again to shield himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another voice, seemingly a young boy, is heard saying: “That wasn’t too hard,” referring to the blows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The male adult comments: “No it isn’t strong” and urges Abbas to give the other child “a boxing”. “Yalla Abbas,” he says using an Arabic word that means ‘go on’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“When I saw this shameful video I felt, for the first time, ashamed of being Lebanese,” said one Facebook user.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another commentator accused the parents of Abbas of “raising the child to be a racist from his early age.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lebanon hosts more than a million refugees from Syria’s civil war and Rifi told AFP the boy was probably Syrian from the eastern Bekaa Valley where many Syrians have found refuge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Condemning the assault, director of the ODFS, Ribal Al-Assad said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What kind of world do we live in where people condone such behaviour – it is a shameful reflection on the depth of the conflict where Lebanese society is affected by events across the border; all because the conflict has developed along deeply sectarian lines – this has been largely driven by clerics who use satellite TV, websites and mosques to incite on religious hatred, violence and killing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not to forget the governments who have been backing and allowing this rhetoric to continue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No child should be subjected to such inhumane and degrading treatment, furthermore what parents would raise their children to behave in such a way – it is sickening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am however pleased to see that the people responsible for this act have been caught, let us hope that justice is served.”<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Video of child beating boy in Lebanon goes viral AFP Lebanon has arrested a man who spurred his two-year-old son to beat up a Syrian child after a video of the shocking blows went viral, state media reported on Sunday. The cousin of the boy named Abbas, who taped the video which was posted online […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1855,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6351,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6348\/revisions\/6351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odf-syria.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}