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Freelance journalist/researcher with a passion for the struggle for democracy, human rights & wildlife preservation. Reporting on wars, uprisings & conservation

Apr 26, 2020, 11 tweets

Protesters have returned to the streets of #Lebanon 🇱🇧. Roadblock are being set up in the suburbs of #Beirut as the government's strict #coronavirus measures do not take the daily struggles of the country's poor into considdrations, pushing more people to the brink.
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#Lebanon 🇱🇧: in the southern town of Jadra protesters claim to have been fired upon by security forces, showing bullet casings they reportedly picked off the ground.
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#Lebanon 🇱🇧: massive motorcade moving towards the center of #Tripoli, defying the government lockdown.
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#Lebanon 🇱🇧: roadblocks being set up in #Beirut tonight.
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#Lebanon 🇱🇧: tires being set on fire to block the Dora highway in #Beirut.
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#Lebanon 🇱🇧: video of an intense confrontation between protesters and military at a roadblock in Jal El-Dib, eastern of #Beirut.
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#Lebanon 🇱🇧: massive riots in #Tripoli tonight, gunfire can be heard on the streets as the situation is spiralling out of control.

Protesters are proclaiming a second wave of the Lebanense uprising of last fall.
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#Lebanon 🇱🇧: another video of gunfire in #Tripoli tonight.
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#Lebanon 🇱🇧: street protests in the capital #Beirut tonight.
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#Lebanon 🇱🇧: complete chaos in the streets of #Tripoli. Security forces fire tear gas and shoot live ammunition into the air to disperse the protesting crowd.
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#Lebanon 🇱🇧: the government crackdown on Lebanese protesters has claimed its latest victim. 26 year old Fawwaz Fouad was shot by security forces in #Tripoli last night and died of his injuries this morning.
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