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Conflict Incident Report

ISF arrests Syrian for sexual assault charges

Date of incident: 
April 24, 2017
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Syrian Civilians/Refugees
Internal Security Forces (ISF)

One Syrian was arrested on April 24 in sexual assaults of several minors in the Abi Samra locality of Shawk, a communiqué by the Internal Security Forces indicated.
During his interrogation, the arrested, born 1951, confessed to having sexually offended and raped minors--five of whom have been identified and examined by a coroner. 
 

Primary category: 
Arrest/Detention
Secondary Category: 
Gender Based Violence [inc. sexual violence]
Classification of conflict (primary): 
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.