Iraqi Protests Swell Despite Clash With Sadrist Supporters
IRAQ PULSE – Gilgamesh Nabeel 3 February 2020 After withdrawing his support for the protests, controversial populist Shiite cleric Muqtada...
Thematic Issues
Iraqi Security Forces Use Hunting Weapons on Demonstrators
AlAraby Baghdad- Zaid Salim 30 January 2020 The continued crackdown by the Iraqi security forces against demonstrators in Baghdad and...
Iraq Uprising: Violence Escalates as Protesters in Kut and Najaf are Killed and Wounded
AlArabi AlJadeed – Bara’a Al-Shammari Iraqi protests have escalated in the city of Kut, the center of Wasit Governorate (central...
A Message to Our Friends, Demonstrators Against War All Over the World
War leads to war War leads to destruction, displacement, and a lost future for millions of children Years ago, a...
Behind the Peaceful Protests: Cultural Transformation in Iraq
ICSSI Intervention in a hearing about Iraq before the Italian Foreign affairs commission Rome – January 2020 In the streets...
Ilisu Dam Reservoir has reached Hasankeyf town – Apocalypse is Impending!
Statement by the Hasankeyf Coordination, 17 January 2020 The filling of the controversial Ilisu Dam continues despite the ongoing strong...
Stop New War in Iraq! The Time to Stop Escalation is Now!
The Iraqi Civil Society Solidarity Initiative (ICSSI) 8 January 2020 The overwhelmingly peaceful and nonviolent youth-led protests taking place across...
Iraqi Demonstrators Call to Keep Iraq Away from the American-Iranian Conflict
Aktham Saif Aldeen – Al-Arabi Al-Jadeed On Saturday 4 January, the public squares in Baghdad and in the southern governorates...
Four Scenes From Iraqi Reality
85 days, 485 martyrs, 19,000 wounded, 11 governorates galvanized to act, and the nonviolent protest movement in Iraq, known as...
The Rain of Smoke
The Status of Human Rights in the Iraqi Demonstrations, 25 October – 1 December Peace and Freedom Organization, Sergio di...
The Iraqi Government Must Not Arrest Nonviolent Human Rights Defenders in Baghdad
Baghdad, 13 December (first posted) UPDATE: 21 December 2019 Omar and Salman have been released on bail provided by family members....
Call for the Immediate Release of 2 Activists!
Baghdad Salman Kairallah Al-Mansoori and Omar Kadhem Al-Amri, two Iraqi activists for human and environmental rights, have disappeared in Baghdad...