In response to calls for a general strike by activists on social networking sites, protestors in Iraq’s capital shut down streets, schools, and government offices on Sunday, escalating the month-long movement demanding economic relief and a change in the country’s political system.
In Baghdad, university-age demonstrators blocked major thoroughfares through the city by parking their cars on the roads. Others took part in sit-ins at schools, and the country’s national teachers union extended the strike that began last week.
In Nasiriyah, where schools and the majority of the administrations are closed, protesters began to gather in the squares of the city to relaunch the protests while in the city of Hilla, (governorate of Babylon) , protesters continue to block the majority of public services.
In Shiite-dominated al-Sadr, all access to neighborhoods has been blocked while in Najaf and Karbala, towns sacred to Shiites, the number of student strikers continues to increase.
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