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Conflict Incident Report

Tenants’ Rights Commission, National Proportionality Committee staged sit in at Riad Solh

Date of incident: 
August 2, 2016
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Lebanese Civilians

NNA - The Committee for the Defense of Tenants Rights and the National Commission for Proportionality Electoral Law are currently staging simultaneous sit ins at Riad Solh Square, NNA reporter said on Tuesday. 

The first sit in called for residential plans and a just rent law that would protect tenants, whereas the second sit in called for a just electoral law based on proportionality within one constituency outside confessional registry. 

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.