Conflict Incident Report

ISF arrests suspected Tripoli 'sextortionists'

Date of incident:

January 12, 2018

Death toll:

0persons

Number of Injured:

0persons

Actors/Parties Involved:

Internal Security Forces (ISF)

Lebanese Civilians

The Internal Security Forces Saturday announced the arrest of two men involved in “sextortion” in the northern city of Tripoli.

The suspects, identified as Lebanese R.H. and Aa.H., born in 1998 and 1988 respectively, were arrested “within 24 hours” of a complaint being filed by a mother, on Jan. 11.

In the complaint, the mother alleged that her daughter, a minor, had been blackmailed via the use of compromising pictures.

The suspects had reportedly communicated with minors online, persuading the latter to electronically send them compromising images or video, and then extorting their victims financially or sexually, under threats of releasing the material online.

The ISF urged victims of extortion to report these schemes “immediately,” in order that the crimes be rapidly solved.

Source Link:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2018/Jan-20/434644-…

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.

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ISF arrests suspected Tripoli 'sextortionists'

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