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ISF arrests unlicensed doctor in Minyeh
Date of incident:
October 12, 2018
Death toll:
0persons
Number of Injured:
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved:
Judicial Police - ISF
Syrian Civilians/Refugees
The Judicial Police in Tripoli have arrested a doctor for illegally prescribing and selling smuggled medicines.
The police arrested the doctor, identified as Syrian national M.M., born in 1974, in his house in Minyeh, where he would examine patients and prescribe and sell them medications that he had smuggled into Lebanon from Syria.
Primary category:
Arrest/Detention
Secondary Category:
Illicit Trade/Trafficking/Smuggling
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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