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Conflict Incident Report
ISF arrests suspected extortionist who hacked women's social media accounts
Date of incident:
December 21, 2018
Death toll:
0persons
Number of Injured:
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved:
Internal Security Forces (ISF)
Lebanese Civilians
The Internal Security Forces has arrested a man suspected of extorting several women online.
The man, identified as M.G., a Lebanese national born in 1992, was arrested after a woman filed a complaint to the ISF about someone hacking her social media accounts and extorting her.
This security incident was mapped according to the closest possible location.
Primary category:
Arrest/Detention
Secondary Category:
Gender Based Violence [inc. sexual violence]
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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