A bloody week has just passed in Iraq, where the death toll in the ranks of the protesters has exceeded 40, while more than 2,000 people have been wounded in Baghdad and southern cities according to media and medical sources.
Hundreds of protesters gathered yesterday at Etharir Square in the center of the capital where they were confronted with tear gas launched by the police. These confrontations took place a few hours before the holding of the parliamentary plenary dedicated to the study of the demands of the protesters.
The protests, which were renewed in Baghdad and other parts of Iraq, were violently repressed from the very first hours by the police who opened fire on the citizens.
On the other hand, the protesters installed tents in Etahrir Square the day before yesterday, while the police deployed around them, taking intensive security measures. In Basra, Dhi Qar, Babylo, Wasit and Maysan, the curfew was decreed after the Prime Minister granted the prerogative to the governors.
In Kerbala, protesters tore apart the portrait of Ali Khamenei, Ayatollah and current Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, and called for the ousting of Iran's Iranian allies.
The protests in Iraq broke out in early October when the protesters called for improved services and the fight against unemployment and corruption. The protesters also called for the formation of a national committee to revise the constitution far from any ideology and to hold early parliamentary elections without the participation of prominent figures in Iraq after 2003.
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