The ISF General Directorate announced in a statement yesterday that it had posted on its Facebook page a letter from a citizen reporting M.H for running a prostitution ring and meeting members in a restaurant in Maamelteyn east of Beirut. The statement went on to say, that on January 23, 2019, and as a result of inspection, the Judicial Police Anti-Human Trafficking Unit was able to identify and arrest the suspect. The latter, (Syrian, born in 1976) admitted upon interrogation that he facilitated sex work for a number of girls whom he met online and who live with another suspect, A.H (also Syrian, born in 1985) who drives them to their clients, the statement said. The ISF pointed out that, on January 26, 2019, its units raided the residence of A.H at one of the Tabarja hotels and arrested three Syrian girls involved in prostitution, and they are: A.H (born in 1998), M.R (born in 1987) and K.R (born in 1993). They admitted the charges against them in complicity with 10 other persons of Lebanese and Syrian nationality. (Al Mustaqbal, February 20, 2019)