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Activist goes on hunger strike over orphanage rape case
Date of incident:
October 5, 2016
Death toll:
0persons
Number of Injured:
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved:
Lebanese Civilians
An activist went on a hunger strike Wednesday to protest the Ministry of Social Affairs’s failure to investigate allegations of sexual abuse at an orphanage south of Beirut, local media reported.
Tarek al-Mallah said the hunger strike's aim is to urge the ministry to open an investigation around a case involving an 11-year-old who was allegedly raped in Dar al-Aytam's southern Beirut suburb of Ouzai branch.
This security incident was mapped according to the closest possible location.
Primary category:
Collective Action [inc. protests, solidarity movements...]
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.
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