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Conflict Incident Report

Daily Star photographer beaten by Lebanese soldiers

Date of incident: 
December 23, 2018
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Lebanese Civilians
Internal Security Forces (ISF)

Lebanese soldiers Sunday beat up a Daily Star photographer while he covered a protest by several thousand people against the country’s worsening living conditions and political system.

In a video circulated on TV and social media, Hasan Shaaban can be seen being grabbed by the neck by an Army soldier, and then brought to the ground and beaten by several other soldiers as he covered the protest in Ras al-Nabeh.

Primary category: 
Assault
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.