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Place of Birth: Beirut, Beirut Governorate, Lebanon
About Souhaila Andrawes
- Souhaila Sami Andrawes Sayeh (Arabic: ????? ???????? born 28 March 1953 in Beirut), is a Palestinian member of the PFLP.
- In 1977 she participated in the hijacking of Lufthansa Flight 181 and the murder of pilot Jürgen Schumann.
- Andrawes was the only one of the four hijackers to survive the GSG 9 storming of the plane in Mogadishu.Andrawes was sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment in Somalia, but was released a year later due to poor health, after which she moved to Beirut.
- In 1991, she moved to Oslo with her husband and a daughter until she was tracked down by Norwegian police in 1994 and handed over to Germany in 1995.
- The arrest was followed by a strong debate over how to deal with foreign criminals.
- She was sentenced to 12 years for her various crimes and was released after three years due to ill health.
- She was the first woman to be sentenced twice for such a crime.
- Andrawes has since resided in Oslo with her husband, Palestinian academic and human rights activist Dr.
- Ahmad Abu Matar, and their daughter.
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