Pictures .. unprecedented mass protests in Baghdad
Friday 28-08-2015 | 7:12:56
Twilight News / gathering of thousands of citizens and activists in Tahrir Square in central Baghdad to protest against corruption and poor services and support government reforms.
Activists said the Twilight News, said the demonstration today massive and unprecedented because of the large numbers that poured on the scene to call for the provision of services and reform the judiciary, fight corruption and make the corrupt to justice.
Friday 28-08-2015 | 7:12:56
Twilight News / gathering of thousands of citizens and activists in Tahrir Square in central Baghdad to protest against corruption and poor services and support government reforms.
Activists said the Twilight News, said the demonstration today massive and unprecedented because of the large numbers that poured on the scene to call for the provision of services and reform the judiciary, fight corruption and make the corrupt to justice.
They noted that the number of protesters is the largest since the start of the wave of protests about a month ago.
The cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has called on his supporters a few days ago to participate in the protests taking place in the capital Baghdad on Friday.
Said Salah al-Obeidi, Sadr's spokesman in a televised speech in the city of Najaf that everyone, especially supporters of the Sadrist movement to participate in the protests.
The official page of Moqtada al-Sadr on the Internet that this attitude comes "to stand up against corruption and the corrupt."
He also called for the site to be "be uniform demands" and include "claim comprehensive reform of the judicial institution and isolate corrupt, tried and rejection of sectarianism and consequent upon very Kalmhassh band evils among the people of one nation, and to emphasize the need to implement comprehensive reforms package within a specific timeframe and reasonable, and to hold thieves public finance, accounting and security leaders losers and bring them to justice. "
Sadr's statement stressed that "be participating in the demonstrations next Friday in the capital Baghdad and exclusively be a resident of Baghdad are the claimants presence only, while participating in other provinces will be at another time."
The Baghdad and several cities in the south have seen demonstrations in recent weeks calling for government reforms to make the provision of basic services and the prosecution of corrupt politicians, prompting Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to launch a major reform campaign earlier this month. source
The cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has called on his supporters a few days ago to participate in the protests taking place in the capital Baghdad on Friday.
Said Salah al-Obeidi, Sadr's spokesman in a televised speech in the city of Najaf that everyone, especially supporters of the Sadrist movement to participate in the protests.
The official page of Moqtada al-Sadr on the Internet that this attitude comes "to stand up against corruption and the corrupt."
He also called for the site to be "be uniform demands" and include "claim comprehensive reform of the judicial institution and isolate corrupt, tried and rejection of sectarianism and consequent upon very Kalmhassh band evils among the people of one nation, and to emphasize the need to implement comprehensive reforms package within a specific timeframe and reasonable, and to hold thieves public finance, accounting and security leaders losers and bring them to justice. "
Sadr's statement stressed that "be participating in the demonstrations next Friday in the capital Baghdad and exclusively be a resident of Baghdad are the claimants presence only, while participating in other provinces will be at another time."
The Baghdad and several cities in the south have seen demonstrations in recent weeks calling for government reforms to make the provision of basic services and the prosecution of corrupt politicians, prompting Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to launch a major reform campaign earlier this month. source