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Conflict Incident Report

Anti riot police deploys near Serail after protestors attempt to advance

Date of incident: 
August 22, 2016
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Lebanese Civilians
Internal Security Forces (ISF)

NNA - Anti-riot police deployed on Monday in front of the Grand Serail, after the failed attempts by protestors of civil secular movement and contractual secondary teachers to cross the barbed wire, NNA reporter said. 
Road towards Riad Solh was blocked to traffic. 

Primary category: 
Collective Action [inc. protests, solidarity movements...]
Secondary Category: 
Military/Security Forces Deployment
Classification of conflict (primary): 
Policy conflicts
Conflicts associated with political decisions, government or state policies regarding matters of public concern, such as debates concerning law reforms, electoral laws, and protests of the government’s political decisions, among others.
Classification of conflict(secondary):
Individual acts of violence
Violent incidents which do not have a specific or a known political agenda but are caused by the general proliferation of weapons, of trained and untrained soldiers or militants, by the general inefficiency of the Justice system, and past-traditions and histories of violence within society.