Baghdad, April 15 (Rn) – Dozens of citizens in Tahrir Square in central Baghdad on Friday, demanding the release of detainees, fighting corruption and the provision of services, but some of them for the first time called for the resignation of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s office.
And comes a day after one of the Declaration of Baghdad operations for not allowing the citizens to organize demonstrations in Tahrir Square, after the places identified for this purpose.
The envoy said the news agency Kurdistan (Rn) that “dozens of people gathered this morning at the Tahrir Square to demand the release of prisoners amid the heavy security by the security forces.”
“The demonstrators held up banners denouncing corruption and accountability of the corrupt and required to provide and improve services, while some of them demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.”
And raises the requirement to step down for the first time in Iraq since a wave of protests swept the country about two months ago, which had been demanding the provision of services and employment opportunities, which led to the Prime Minister and his cabinet ministers grace 100 days to improve the performance of their ministries.
The Baghdad Operations Command, identified the first of yesterday Shaab Stadium and scouts to demonstrate my name instead of editing and Paradise, and attributed this response to appeals by the owners of the public markets, shops and street vendors in these areas.
A spokesman for the Baghdad operations command Maj. Gen. Qassim Atta’s (Rn) on Thursday, said that “the Baghdad operations command will not allow on Friday organized a demonstration in my name editing and Paradise,” noting that “everyone commitment places alternative identified by the Operations Command, which stadiums” .
Atta said that “security forces will take legal action against violators of the instructions drawn up by the concerned authorities.”
Observers believe that the popular received this decision very reluctantly, and saw it Tckbyla of freedom, at a time when the Iraqi government confirms the right of citizens to express their views.
He said an activist in the youth movement of reform Iraqi Ahmed Abdullah’s (Rn) that “the siege of the Iraqi security and orders of its leaders to locate undesirable to protest will not stop them,” noting that “the Tahrir Square has become a symbol of liberal and national sheltering the poor and the owners of the right of students at power users and power “.
And seemed to Tahrir Square in downtown Baghdad since 25 February last place quasi-static assembly of citizens and protesters every Friday and almost continuously, with varied demands of these groups from week to week.
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