“Unlicensed”: An Administrative Shield for Human Trafficking
In its latest statement, the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor completely ignores the crux of the crime, settling for denying that an entity named “The Sisters’ House” is licensed. This response is nothing more than a tool of deception; the state, faced with reports of forced disappearance and “sex slavery” camps, has a legal duty to mobilize its security agencies to raid these dens and rescue the victims, not to issue administrative “certificates of exoneration” that merely deny an entity’s legal status to provide immunity to the perpetrators.
Bureaucracy as a Cloak for Enforced Disappearance
Instead of mobilizing security and judicial resources to end the crime of enslaving women and subjecting them to forced disappearance—exemplified by the case of Batoul Alloush—the Ministry has chosen to hide behind bureaucracy. When the state is confronted with reports of undisclosed detention centers where women’s dignity is degraded and their will is subjugated, only to respond with “we have no record of such a name,” it is engaging in systematic disinformation. This conduct grants the perpetrators a legal cover, signaling clearly that the state is concerned only with “names” while turning a blind eye to “actions.”
Official Complicity and Impunity
Attempts to portray the disappearance of these young women as “voluntary” are part of a protection apparatus covering up systematic enslavement. The failure to conduct raids or transparent investigations reveals that “The Sisters’ House” operates within a vast network of influence, where the Ministry’s statement serves as a preemptive “exoneration” for the perpetrators, granting them a green light to continue holding captives in total impunity.
The State as an Architect of Forced Ideological Engineering
The forced ideological conversion of these women cannot be separated from the overarching security control in the coastal region. A state that monitors every detail of its citizens’ lives cannot feign “ignorance” regarding an entity that practices forced disappearance and converts women into captives after subjecting them to ideological indoctrination. This denial is not a failure of intelligence; it is a “political decision” to transform state institutions into coordination hubs that ensure these clandestine detention centers remain beyond the reach of the law, using superficial press releases solely to absorb public outrage.
The Direct Criminal Liability of the State
Any government statement that lacks concrete actions—such as immediate raids, disclosing the fate of the victims, and criminal prosecution—constitutes direct complicity in the crime. A regime that insults the public’s intelligence with this level of disregard, while women are held as captives and their dignity is violated, forfeits its legitimacy as a protector of society. History will not record the lack of a “license”; it will record that these institutions provided the cover for projects of enslavement and disappearance, leaving the victims to face their fate in illegal detention centers.