The death toll of the Iraqi protests rose to 100, most of them demonstrators, and renewed demonstrations and shootings yesterday, and authorities lifted the curfew in the capital Baghdad, and pledged the presidencies of the Republic and the government to hold those responsible for the violence, and confirmed the fulfillment of the legitimate demands of the demonstrators and achieve the aspirations of the youth of Iraq to ensure them a decent life .
In detail, renewed demonstrations in the center of the Iraqi capital, yesterday afternoon, an AFP photographer reported live bullets towards demonstrators gathered in the vicinity of the Oil Ministry on the road leading to Tahrir Square, and demonstrators also took to the streets in the cities of Diwaniya and Nasiriyah south of Baghdad, sources said In the Iraqi police and medical sources that about five people were killed in yesterday's clashes.
It was yesterday, the fifth day of protests in Baghdad and the southern provinces and confronted by security forces shot dead, and announced the Government Human Rights Commission, the death toll of demonstrations since the beginning of last Tuesday to about 100 people, mostly demonstrators, and wounded about 4000 others, sources said Most of the demonstrators were shot dead, noting that six policemen were killed in these anti-government demonstrations in Baghdad and several areas in the south of the country, as well as the arrest of about 500 people, but many were released after that.
President Barham Salih and Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi said yesterday that those responsible for violence were held accountable and stressed the safety of demonstrators. Saleh's office said in a statement that the president received the prime minister to discuss the current events and emphasize the fulfillment of youth aspirations. The meeting emphasized the fulfillment of the legitimate demands of the demonstrators and the fulfillment of the aspirations of the youth of Iraq to ensure them a free and decent life ».
During the meeting, it was stressed that those responsible for violence should be held accountable and that the security and safety of protesters and security forces will be tackled and that criminals who have fired live bullets at demonstrators and security forces will be tackled. Country.
For his part, announced the Office of Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi, yesterday, the issuance of the Anti-Corruption Council decisions on public demands and invalidated charges against the Minister of Health Alaa Eddin Alwan.
The office said in a press statement that the Supreme Council for Combating Corruption held a session chaired by the Prime Minister, and issued important decisions on public demands and oil files and state real estate and the dismissal of 1000 employees and foreign workers and invalidated the charges against the Minister of Health.
Parliamentary sources said that Parliament Speaker Mohammed Halbousi, met representatives of demonstrators within the House of Representatives, yesterday, to discuss their legitimate demands and ways to meet them in accordance with the law.
Iraqi authorities lifted the curfew in the capital Baghdad yesterday, with the continued blocking of the Internet amid high tension. Iraqi state television said officials from the Prime Minister's Office met with leaders to protest from Baghdad and other provinces to discuss their demands.
The shops reopened yesterday in several neighborhoods of the capital, and cafes go back to their daily routine, while cleaners began to raise traces and residues of burning tires in the streets, according to a reporter from the Agence France-Presse.
The protests against the unfair distribution of jobs, lack of services and government corruption, and then spread rapidly to the rest of the Iraqi cities, especially in the south, and this is the bloodiest protests in Iraq since the announcement of the defeat of the terrorist organization «ISIS» in 2017, and accuses the Iraqi authorities of what they described as « Mendesin »sneaking into the demonstrations and causing deaths.
The speaker of the Iraqi parliament, Mohamed Halbousi, delivered a speech, the day before yesterday, in which he made proposals for the employment of young people and provide new social assistance, also threatened that in the absence of promises as soon as he would join the demonstrators, while authorities demand demonstrators a period of time to implement reforms and improve conditions Some 40 million people live in war-weary Iraq, while Sadr's leader, Moqtada al-Sadr, who controls a large bloc in parliament, has called for the resignation of the government and early elections. Iraqi politician Fanar Haddad said Iraqi politicians, some of whom have been in office for 16 years, found themselves facing an unprecedented movement. He told AFP that these demonstrations against the regime were different from the traditional summer protests demanding electricity and water in the second exporting countries. "This is the first time we have heard the people demanding the overthrow of a system based on sectarian quotas and cronyism," he said.
For its part, France called on the Iraqi authorities, to disclose the circumstances of the deaths of about 100 people in the demonstrations, stressing the right of peaceful demonstration, and the importance of an equal response by security forces, the French Foreign Ministry said yesterday, it encourages the Iraqi authorities to disclose the circumstances of the violence, She expressed France's support for the efforts of the Iraqi government in bringing stability and reconstruction and development of public facilities for the benefit of all the population of Iraq.
The Speaker of the Parliament meets the representatives of the demonstrators to discuss their demands and ways to meet them in accordance with the law.
Shops reopen in several neighborhoods and lift the effects of demonstrations from the streets.