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Conflict Incident Report

ISF arrests 3 suspected of trafficking and prostitution

Date of incident: 
February 22, 2018
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Internal Security Forces (ISF)
Lebanese Civilians

The Internal Security Forces arrested three Lebanese nationals suspected for human trafficking and prostitution in Mount Lebanon, a statement from the ISF said Saturday.

The men, T.J. born in 1952, A.J, born in 1958, and Ch.J. born in 1994, were arrested on Feb. 22 in the Dikwaneh area on different charges.

T.J. had nine arrests warrants for murder, drugs, facilitating prostitution and human trafficking. A.J. had five arrest warrants for drugs, promoting prostitution and human trafficking while Ch.C. was arrested on suspicion of facilitating prostitution.

This security incident was mapped according to the closest possible location.
Primary category: 
Gender Based Violence [inc. sexual violence]
Secondary Category: 
Illicit Trade/Trafficking/Smuggling
Classification of conflict (primary): 
Conflicts of social discrimination
Violent and unjust treatment of different categories of people and individuals based on race, age, gender or sexuality, committed by the State, groups and individuals, related to a lack of protection and rights, inefficiency of the Justice system and persisting social and economic vulnerabilities.
Classification of conflict(secondary):
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.