Sadr calls for a million rally against corruption in Iraq

The leader of the Sadr movement in Iraq, Muqtada al-Sadr, on Tuesday to turn the occasion of the forty-day Imam Hussein in Karbala to a demonstration against the United States, Israel and the corrupt, a week after the bloody protests demanded that killed more than a hundred people.

Sadr said in a tweet on Twitter entitled "appeal" "Iraqis walking to the kiss of free revolutionaries marched through the crowds of a million organization, shouting" No, no, no, no, no, Israel, no, no, corrupt. "

Millions of Shi'ites are expected to take part on Saturday in the revival of the forty-year-old Hussein in Karbala, the largest annual religious gathering of Shiites around the world.

Sadr, who backs the Saeroun bloc, which topped the 2018 parliamentary election with 54 seats out of 329, called 10 days ago for the resignation of the government and "early elections under UN supervision."

Since October 1, Iraq has seen spontaneous demonstrations driven by social demands, but directed by live bullets. The bloody protests killed one hundred and four people, according to the census of the Iraqi Commission for Human Rights.

The protests included Sadr City, east of Baghdad, a stronghold of the Sadrist movement, where security forces for the first time admitted "excessive use of force."