The Iraqi Human Rights Commission announced yesterday that 11 demonstrators were killed and 289 others injured in the protests in Baghdad and a number of southern provinces. Yesterday, the developments in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, as «shocking».

In detail, UNHCR documented the detention and assault of security personnel by medical personnel near the central bank building on Al-Rasheed Street in the capital last Friday.

The UNHCR said that security forces used "excessive violence", resulting in the killing of a demonstrator in Baghdad, wounding 68 others, and the killing of seven demonstrators in the province of Dhi Qar near the bridges of olive and victory, and wounded 131 others.

The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, in a statement, it documented the killing of three demonstrators, and wounding 90 others in the province of Basra.

UNHCR renewed its call on the government and security forces to prevent the use of excessive violence against peaceful demonstrators «as a flagrant violation of the right to life, security and safety».

The Commission noted that it continues to receive «reports and complaints about the abduction of activists, media, lawyers and traders by unknowns».

In a related context, renewed confrontations, yesterday, between the demonstrators and security forces in front of the headquarters of education in Muthanna province, while demonstrators closed the revolution bridge in the center of Hilla in the province of Babylon.

In al-'Ukayka area, south of Dhi Qar province, the demonstrators announced an open sit-in, set up tents in front of state departments, and cut bridges with burning tires.

In turn, Amnesty said that there were "shocking developments in Iraq, due to the escalating wave of violence against demonstrators in Basra, which led to the death and injury of many people." "We continue to monitor developments on the ground and are deeply concerned about the apparent disregard of the protesters' lives and their freedom of expression and assembly," the statement said.