Lebanon’s child welfare drive ‘lacks laws, national strategy’
BEIRUT: A recent courtroom drama in which a judge offered to pay the bail amounts for two destitute brothers, who had been arrested in a financial dispute, has served to highlight the impact of Lebanon’s economic crisis on children.
The arrested duo, who collect and sell tin cans and scrap from streets and landfill for a living, had been detained for a month following a row.
Dany Zeeny, the investigating judge, helped the minors and ordered their release from an Akkar police station in the far north of Lebanon.