Uber Driver in Lebanon Arrested in Killing of Rebecca Dykes<br />18, 2017<br />LONDON — A driver for Uber in Lebanon has been arrested in connection with the killing of a British diplomat in Beirut over the weekend,<br />and the ride-hailing company said on Monday that it was cooperating with the authorities.<br />We’re providing consular support to her family & working very closely with Lebanese authorities who are conducting police investigation." In June,<br />Uber fired a senior executive who had obtained the medical records of a woman who was raped by an Uber driver in New Delhi in December 2014.<br />Mr. Porter said that Uber in Lebanon used only taxi drivers with commercial licenses, which require government background checks.<br />In 2014, both Uber and one of its competitors, Lyft, lobbied regulators in cities across the United States to ease<br />rules requiring the fingerprinting of drivers for background checks, a more thorough but time-consuming process.<br />The National News Agency of Lebanon said the driver, identified only as Tarek H., had confessed to killing Ms. Dykes.<br />The ride-hailing company reviewed the suspect’s short employment history, Mr. Porter said, and did not find anything raising safety concerns.<br />Uber, however, uses a different approach in cities where drivers are required<br />to be licensed by the taxi commission to drive for the company, like Beirut.<br />British wrote that The whole embassy is deeply shocked, saddened by this news,
