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Rights Watch, the government continues to suppress peaceful protests
Group: Security and Politics
Created on Saturday, 03 March / March 2012 10:34
Criticized by Human Rights Watch, Human Rights, on Thursday, the Iraqi government to use "oppressive ways" to abort the peaceful protests that took place last week to commemorate the anti-government demonstrations that came out in 2011. The organization based in New York that the government authorities threatened to arrest activists such as violence and demonstrations, and that security forces used various ways to prevent protesters from reaching the camps for demonstrations in Baghdad.
The Director of Middle East affairs in the organization, Sarah Leah Whitson, said in a statement received "(range) a copy of the violence used by these forces is less than in the past year, the results are the same and can be summarized in the prevention of Iraqis to express their opposition peacefully" .
The organization said that the government shut down many roads leading to Tahrir Square, a gathering place of the demonstration, and that security forces threatened to arrest the participants.
She said Human Rights Watch that security men surrounded the palace square in Sulaimaniya, where he was scheduled to start another demonstration, while the men dressed in civilian clothes attacked the demonstrators.
The number of Iraqi cities have seen in last year's demonstrations to protest the corruption and lack of basic services and unemployment.
And resulted in clashes that erupted between protesters and security men on the other hand, in the twenty-fifth of February 2011 killed 16 demonstrators and wounding 130, police said.
The Commission on Human Rights in the House of Representatives has considered the return of starting these demonstrations on the occasion of the first year of protests by the (25) of February is normal, but warned of the exploitation of some political parties have influence on some of the benefits waiting for Iraq, especially the issue of the Arab summit, while criticized to the dominant political blocs on the scene Kalaracah and a coalition of state law to block the implementation of the promises that have been launched in the last year.
A member of the Committee on the inch, "The return of the demonstrations is normal it is constitutionally guaranteed, but not for this pressure will not be able to participate in the Iraqi citizens find solutions to the problems plaguing the country."
He added an inch in an earlier statement (long) "There are fears of exploitation of some political blocs of the demonstrations in order to stop the political process and work to block the government's performance by selecting the appropriate time, Kalaqturab of a conference of the Arab summit in Baghdad, which require the presence of stability in the country." and the promises made by the government a year ago to improve services and work to reform the political process, said a member of the Commission on Human Rights, "The problems between large blocs Kalaracah and state law has cast a shadow on the government performance and contributed to disable delivery of services to citizens, and therefore, these two blocs, the largest in the Parliament bear full responsibility for the unfulfilled promises made by the government in the last year. "
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Group: Security and Politics
Created on Saturday, 03 March / March 2012 10:34
Criticized by Human Rights Watch, Human Rights, on Thursday, the Iraqi government to use "oppressive ways" to abort the peaceful protests that took place last week to commemorate the anti-government demonstrations that came out in 2011. The organization based in New York that the government authorities threatened to arrest activists such as violence and demonstrations, and that security forces used various ways to prevent protesters from reaching the camps for demonstrations in Baghdad.
The Director of Middle East affairs in the organization, Sarah Leah Whitson, said in a statement received "(range) a copy of the violence used by these forces is less than in the past year, the results are the same and can be summarized in the prevention of Iraqis to express their opposition peacefully" .
The organization said that the government shut down many roads leading to Tahrir Square, a gathering place of the demonstration, and that security forces threatened to arrest the participants.
She said Human Rights Watch that security men surrounded the palace square in Sulaimaniya, where he was scheduled to start another demonstration, while the men dressed in civilian clothes attacked the demonstrators.
The number of Iraqi cities have seen in last year's demonstrations to protest the corruption and lack of basic services and unemployment.
And resulted in clashes that erupted between protesters and security men on the other hand, in the twenty-fifth of February 2011 killed 16 demonstrators and wounding 130, police said.
The Commission on Human Rights in the House of Representatives has considered the return of starting these demonstrations on the occasion of the first year of protests by the (25) of February is normal, but warned of the exploitation of some political parties have influence on some of the benefits waiting for Iraq, especially the issue of the Arab summit, while criticized to the dominant political blocs on the scene Kalaracah and a coalition of state law to block the implementation of the promises that have been launched in the last year.
A member of the Committee on the inch, "The return of the demonstrations is normal it is constitutionally guaranteed, but not for this pressure will not be able to participate in the Iraqi citizens find solutions to the problems plaguing the country."
He added an inch in an earlier statement (long) "There are fears of exploitation of some political blocs of the demonstrations in order to stop the political process and work to block the government's performance by selecting the appropriate time, Kalaqturab of a conference of the Arab summit in Baghdad, which require the presence of stability in the country." and the promises made by the government a year ago to improve services and work to reform the political process, said a member of the Commission on Human Rights, "The problems between large blocs Kalaracah and state law has cast a shadow on the government performance and contributed to disable delivery of services to citizens, and therefore, these two blocs, the largest in the Parliament bear full responsibility for the unfulfilled promises made by the government in the last year. "
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