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Dozens demonstrate in Basra
7/18/15
The demonstrators also demanded the provincial council legislation or local law provides for the issuance of the decision to prevent security forces from using live ammunition and excessive force against demonstrators.
BAGHDAD / Obelisk: Dozens of young civilian activists in late on Friday near the local government headquarters in Basra to demand the disclosure of the offending killing a teenager during his participation in protests against the deterioration of the electricity sector in the district of the city, also called for the prevention of the security forces to use live ammunition against demonstrators.
He said one of the organizers of the demonstration, civil rights activist Ali Quraini in an interview with the local media and I followed "obelisk", that "dozens participated in a peaceful demonstration to demand the disclosure of the circumstances of the death of a demonstrator in the district of the city and provide the perpetrator to justice, within one week," noting that "the demonstrators also demanded the Council conservative legislation or local law provides for the issuance of the decision to prevent security forces from using live ammunition and excessive force against demonstrators, where there are other methods to deter rioters can resort to them when necessary, which include the use of water cannons. "
In turn, the civil rights activist and teaching at the University of Basra, d said. Kazem Sahlani in an interview that "the demonstration is the cry of protest against the abuses committed by the security forces against demonstrators," explaining that "these violations were repeated during demonstrations scattered witnessed during the current year area direction and spend the Shatt al-Arab and the district of Abu Fertile, and finally reached the stage of killing a human demonstrator in Elimination of the city, and we are here to protest against such abuses and to demand not to be repeated. "
It is noteworthy that spend the city saw in the late hours of Friday night, popular protests, hundreds participated in because of the deterioration of the electricity sector, has been continued until dawn on Friday, and punctuated by clashes with security forces, according to the head of the security committee in the provincial council Jabbar al-Saadi, "the clashes resulted in the killing a young man and wounding two others, "and soon expanded that simultaneous protests, with record high temperatures to include other areas located north of the province, including Shafi areas and Ghamaj and whey, in addition to the elimination of Qurna, have been some of the roads cut through setting fire to tires.
In the meantime, government departments have been in those areas to the excesses included a siege of a police station and break into the office of the Supreme Council of the Islamic in the district of the city and the burning of the municipal council headquarters in Bani Mansour area, and hours after holding the Provincial Council extraordinary session during which he decided to form an investigative committee immediately to find out the circumstances of the killing demonstrator, in addition to compensation for his family, and still so far the situation is a bit tense in areas that have seen protests despite the promotion of additional security forces.
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7/18/15
The demonstrators also demanded the provincial council legislation or local law provides for the issuance of the decision to prevent security forces from using live ammunition and excessive force against demonstrators.
BAGHDAD / Obelisk: Dozens of young civilian activists in late on Friday near the local government headquarters in Basra to demand the disclosure of the offending killing a teenager during his participation in protests against the deterioration of the electricity sector in the district of the city, also called for the prevention of the security forces to use live ammunition against demonstrators.
He said one of the organizers of the demonstration, civil rights activist Ali Quraini in an interview with the local media and I followed "obelisk", that "dozens participated in a peaceful demonstration to demand the disclosure of the circumstances of the death of a demonstrator in the district of the city and provide the perpetrator to justice, within one week," noting that "the demonstrators also demanded the Council conservative legislation or local law provides for the issuance of the decision to prevent security forces from using live ammunition and excessive force against demonstrators, where there are other methods to deter rioters can resort to them when necessary, which include the use of water cannons. "
In turn, the civil rights activist and teaching at the University of Basra, d said. Kazem Sahlani in an interview that "the demonstration is the cry of protest against the abuses committed by the security forces against demonstrators," explaining that "these violations were repeated during demonstrations scattered witnessed during the current year area direction and spend the Shatt al-Arab and the district of Abu Fertile, and finally reached the stage of killing a human demonstrator in Elimination of the city, and we are here to protest against such abuses and to demand not to be repeated. "
It is noteworthy that spend the city saw in the late hours of Friday night, popular protests, hundreds participated in because of the deterioration of the electricity sector, has been continued until dawn on Friday, and punctuated by clashes with security forces, according to the head of the security committee in the provincial council Jabbar al-Saadi, "the clashes resulted in the killing a young man and wounding two others, "and soon expanded that simultaneous protests, with record high temperatures to include other areas located north of the province, including Shafi areas and Ghamaj and whey, in addition to the elimination of Qurna, have been some of the roads cut through setting fire to tires.
In the meantime, government departments have been in those areas to the excesses included a siege of a police station and break into the office of the Supreme Council of the Islamic in the district of the city and the burning of the municipal council headquarters in Bani Mansour area, and hours after holding the Provincial Council extraordinary session during which he decided to form an investigative committee immediately to find out the circumstances of the killing demonstrator, in addition to compensation for his family, and still so far the situation is a bit tense in areas that have seen protests despite the promotion of additional security forces.
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