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Protesters demand answers to missing Lebanese cameraman
Date of incident:
February 21, 2017
Death toll:
0persons
Number of Injured:
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved:
Lebanese Civilians
On 21 Feb 17, demonstrators rallied in Beirut's Riad al-Solh square in solidarity with Lebanese cameraman Samir Kassab, four years after he went missing in Syria. Protesters called on the United Nations Secretary General to press for Kassab’s release holding pictures of the abducted cameraman. They were joined by Information Minister Melhem Riachi and MP Atef Majdalani outside the ESCWA headquarters.
Primary category:
Collective Action [inc. protests, solidarity movements...]
Classification of conflict (primary):
Policy conflicts
Conflicts associated with political decisions, government or state policies regarding matters of public concern, such as debates concerning law reforms, electoral laws, and protests of the government’s political decisions, among others.
Classification of conflict(secondary):
Border conflicts (Syrian border)
Violations, disputes and/or conflicts arising between rival armed groups along the Lebanese/Syrian borders which involve parties or militant groups from the Lebanese and Syrian side in both Lebanon and Syria. These conflicts also encompass transnational groups (such as faith-based regional groups, e.g. ISIS, al-Nusra Front) that cannot be considered as strictly Syrian, Lebanese or of any other national entity.
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