February 27, 2011
Baqer al-Zubaidi, demanding resignation of Secretary of Baghdad, governors and respond to the demonstrators
Alsumaria News / Baghdad
Alsumaria News / Baghdad
Called on the leadership of the National Coalition Baqir Jabr Al-Zubaidi, Sunday, to respond to the demands of the demonstrators who came out last Friday and the dismissal of the Mayor of Baghdad and the conservatives, calling for Parliament to hold a special meeting to discuss the violations that occurred during the demonstrations.
Zubaidi said in a statement received "Alsumaria News", we call to "respond to the demands of the demonstrators legitimate dismissal of the Mayor of Baghdad and the conservatives against the background of mismanagement and failure to provide services to citizens, and to investigate practices inhumane to some of the security forces, which was fired on unarmed demonstrators and killing and wounding many of them ".
He called al-Zubaidi, a leader in the Islamic Supreme Council to "investigate the attack on the fourth power, intellectuals, and has reflected poorly on the future of the democratic process in the new Iraq, and compensation and re-opening of the channel home space and the status of press freedom, apologizing to each media."
Al-Zubaidi added in his statement "We demand that the House of Representatives to hold a special meeting to discuss the violations set forth above and questioning officials of the security forces for abuses that took place on Friday, and identify those responsible and punish them."
And denounced al-Zubaidi the launch of the security forces fired on demonstrators in some areas, noting "While we salute the national spirit, which is responsible for the demonstrators who have expressed their legitimate demands, we condemn the shooting suffered by the Iraqi citizens of isolation and the use of intimidation tactics against them, killing and injuring dozens of them ".
Iraq has seen, first on Friday, demonstrations traveled throughout the country, calls for reform and change and the eradication of rampant corruption in the joints of the state, organized by the youth of college students, and independent intellectuals and activists, civilians, and contributed to social networking sites on the Internet, in Thacidha.
Forces have stepped up security of the confrontation with the demonstrators, after the emphasis on respecting the right of demonstrators to express their views back to announce to avoid roaming runs from the time the second session on Thursday to indefinitely in Vajit many, as had been expected for the others, while observers say that the decision to prevent curfew helped reduce large numbers of demonstrators in Tahrir Square in central Baghdad, whose numbers swelled to about six thousand only.
Baghdad has seen during and after the demonstrations, on Friday, the detention of 11 journalists, including a cameraman and photographer, "Alsumaria News", by the army representing the ethnic media and western Iraq to the end of the bridge at the entrance of the Republic Ministry of Defence and prevented their movement.
Also raided the force of the Iraqi army, yesterday afternoon, party restaurant in the Karrada district, central Baghdad, and arrested four journalists from the inside after beating them up.
As security forces arrested correspondents space Sumerian Sinan Adnan Idris Jawad and photographer Safa Hatem after their coverage of the events of the event witnessed by the Liberation Square, and held them in the definitive operations Rusafa, on charges of participating in the demonstration, as I used those forces beat associate others managed to escape were identified as Ali Hamed, Muhannad Abdul Sattar.
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki called for last Thursday, in a televised speech, the Iraqi people of all sects and denominations and its components to abortion demonstration twenty-fifth of February, because of their objectives and described as a "subversive" and want to return Iraq to the back, indicating that the Iraqis the right to demonstrate in any place and when is this day, while Maliki has vowed in a statement, on Saturday, the implementation of all the demands of the demonstrations and stressed that his government would investigate the security breaches witnessed by those events, also praised the actions taken by the security services about the demonstrations.
While praised the religious authority, Ali al-Sistani said in a statement today that the demonstrations and warned of the consequences of the Iraqi government to the current approach in the management of the state, and invited them to take critical decisions to cancel privileges of members of the House of Representatives, past and present and provincial councils, senior officials and refrain from the development of government positions new .
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