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Conflict Incident Report
ISF arrested two for sextortion
Date of incident:
October 10, 2017
Death toll:
0persons
Number of Injured:
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved:
Internal Security Forces (ISF)
Lebanese Civilians
Syrian Civilians/Refugees
The Internal Security Forces arrested two suspected sextortionists for filming and then blackmailing people.
The suspects, identified as Lebanese N.H. born in 1984 and Syrian M. H. born in 1975, were arrested on Oct. 10 in Abi Samra, Tripoli by a patrol of the ISF Office of Combatting Cybercrime and Protection of Intellectual Property.
The suspects reportedly admitted to filming people in an “immoral position” before threatening to publish images via social media, including WhatsApp and Facebook.
Primary category:
Arrest/Detention
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.
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