Warning note for regional activists : In Iraq, leaders and organizaers of anti-corruption protests are being assassinated

Warning note for regional activists: In Iraq, leaders and organizaers of anti-corruption protests are being assassinated | The Mideastwire Blog
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On August 31, the Qatari-owned Al-Quds al-Arabi daily carried the following report by its correspondent in Baghdad: “Many activists in the demonstrations sweeping the Iraqi cities have been the object of organized assassination operations and aggressions, without the security bodies managing to identity the sides standing behind them. In Basra in southern Iraq, Sheikh Aziz al-Hilfi was the object of an assassination attempt which caused him to suffer serious injuries, knowing he is one of the activists who participated in the demonstrations against corruption and the corrupt in the Basra province. Also in Basra, Subeih Qassem, the sheikh of the Qaramsha clan, was assassinated in a bomb explosion, and the Basra police said that a remotely-controlled locally-made bomb containing explosives was placed inside the wheel under the driver’s seat, which led to the death of the sheikh and the injuring of another.

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