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Protesters demand release of Beirut mother detained in custody dispute
Friends and sympathizers of a mother detained for refusing to hand over her child to her estranged husband protested in a Beirut suburb Saturday to demand her release.
The protesters gathered in front of the Supreme Islamic Shiite Council, blocking the entrance to the Haret Hreik suburb south of Beirut, and chanted slogans in condemnation of Fatima Ali Hamzeh's detention.
One slogan read, "Your turban is soaked with tears of mothers and children."
The demonstrators also voiced calls for amendments to the current civil status laws that do not grant women equal rights as men.
The protesters later marched towards the nearby Ghobeiry Police Station, where Fatima is being held, and protested there.
Three hours after the protest had started, the crowds flocked to the nearby court in Ghobeiry off Beirut's southern Airport Road.
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