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Conflict Incident Report

Ghazi Kanaan's grandson detained at Beirut Airport

Date of incident: 
September 18, 2016
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
General Security
Lebanese Civilians

NNA - "General Security units at Rafic Hariri International Airport in Beirut detained on Sunday evening Imam Kanaan (born 1993), grandson of the late Syrian Interior Minister Ghazi Kanaan, who is wanted based on a memorandum by the Lebanese Army, NNA correspondent at the Airport reported.

Kanaan was arrested upon arrival at the Airport coming from the United Arab Emirates, and was referred to the Military Police for further investigations.

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.