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The organization said in a statement, it collected the testimonies of nine activists, demonstrators and relatives of the missing activists in [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] , [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] and [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] , in which they described what is currently going on as a campaign of terrorism and none of them is safe, after a number of demonstrators and activists were killed, or were kidnapped and forcibly disappeared over the course of The past two weeks, while most of them were on their way home after participating in the demonstrations. Others managed to escape in the wake of attempts to shoot them. "
" The authorities' absolute failure to take any action during the past weeks has paved the way for this horrific new phase of a blatant and full-fledged attempt to crush the protest demonstrations in [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] by spreading terror in the hearts of the people ," said [url=https://www.alsumaria.tv/Entity/1430629892/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86 %D9%85%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%88%D9%81/ar/]Lynn Maalouf[/url] , director of Middle East research at Amnesty International . This failure by the government indicates, at the very least, its tacit acceptance of enforced disappearance, torture and unlawful killing of demonstrators who took to the streets to demand their human rights and, in some cases, their complicity. "[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
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"Activists and demonstrators reported a series of assassination attempts targeting protesters, especially during their return to their homes from the demonstration areas during the past week. Some demonstrators said that the indiscriminate targeting of activists and demonstrators created an atmosphere of terror; one of the demonstrators explained this by saying" We are all We try to understand this pattern, but when an ordinary protester and a prominent activist alike are targeted, we see only one pattern: terrorizing everyone, targeting everyone. "
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] southern [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] , while the body of another activist, [url=https://www.alsumaria.tv/Entity/1736508004/%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%8A %D9%86%D8%AC%D9%85 %D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A/ar/]Ali Najm al-Lami, was found[/url] in [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] early December morning on 11 December, with gunshot wounds to the head. Activists and witnesses whom Amnesty International spoke to said that Ali - who was originally from Wasit governorate - was then on his way to his relatives' home from the demonstrations in Tahrir Square.
Another eyewitness said to the organization that masked men in a car shot three protesters earlier in the week, while returning from Tahrir Square to their homes in the east of the capital, Baghdad; two of them were wounded.
Another protester from [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] said, “They shot at us; our snipers, and now they are waiting for us in the alleys and near our homes… Before the start of these shooting incidents, we passed a week that we called“ Knives nights. ”We used to see men and boys dressed in normal clothes, coming to the demonstrations. And as if they were demonstrators, then they started quarrels. I saw one of them trying to sexually harass a protester, and when some of the protesters entered to prevent him, he quarreled with them. Suddenly, others beat the demonstrators, and during that chaos three protesters were stabbed, and nobody knows who did this.
A demonstrator from [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] described[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]How could he and another protester manage to escape after armed men fired six or seven gunshots at their car, after they stopped the car and asked its passengers to get out of it. He said he had reported the incident to the local authorities, referring to the security television cameras at the scene, but he was told that these cameras were out of order. Officials later confirmed to the witnesses that these gunmen were local police.
In the context of a pattern of disappearances and kidnappings, the demonstrator [url=https://www.alsumaria.tv/Entity/2852256033/%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86 %D8%AE%D9%8A%D8%B1 %D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%D9%87/ar/]Salman Khairallah and[/url] another protester were subjected to enforced disappearance in the Al-Kadhimiya neighborhood in [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]On December 11, he went to buy tents for protesters in Tahrir Square; Salman's relatives said that the two men had not answered their phones in the afternoon, and at around 3 p.m. their phones looked like they were closed. They have not received any news from them since, despite their review of local authorities to inquire about them. They said that Salman "received indirect threats about two weeks ago that he was under surveillance ... but he ignored it." Relatives expressed to Amnesty International their belief that the two men are being held in a detention facility at Al-Muthanna Airport for interrogation.
Another detainee said in [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]To Amnesty International that on 8 December masked men on a motorcycle tried to force her to ride in a black four-wheel drive vehicle while she was trying to leave the demonstrations near the city's education yard. She noted that one of the women drivers was interrogated earlier this week about her fundraising activities and medical assistance to protesters in the city.
A protester in [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] told Amnesty International: "You cannot imagine the fear we are feeling now; but there is no point in escaping, so they clearly know where the activists live; and they know where our families live."
Another protester from [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] told Amnesty International: “They (the militants) are everywhere, but we don’t see them. There are streets in [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]The protesters completely avoid them because there are people who have disappeared in their alleys; there are demonstrators who have not left Tahrir Square for weeks, fearing they will be exposed to any harm while returning to their homes. ”
On December 11, a number of protesters who had been forcibly disappeared on December 6 were released December in the Al-Sank area of the capital, [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] after their arrival in [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] and video footage taken of the released demonstrators upon their arrival in [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] showed bruises and their inability to walk without support. An eyewitness described one of the released protesters as saying: “His face was blue. And looked He was clearly beaten. "
The protesters condemned the authorities' silence regarding the kidnappings and attempts to kill the demonstrators. One of them added, "It is inconceivable that all of these videotapes taken by security television cameras did not lead to the arrest of anyone; the government resigned and forgotten that it still has a duty to protect people." [url=https://www.alsumaria.tv/Entity/1430629892/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86 %D9%85%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%88%D9%81/ar/]Lynn Maalouf[/url]
concluded , "The international community must raise its voice, expressing its dissatisfaction with the disturbing situations in [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] , and seeking to address them immediately, as it takes a new turn that threatens with further exacerbation and escalation. The Iraqi people have suffered from too long and successive waves of violence; It must be ended. "[url=https://www.alsumaria.tv/Entity/1430629892/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86 %D9%85%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%88%D9%81/ar/][/url][You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
Amnesty International has been urging the Iraqi authorities to put an end to the ongoing campaign of relentless intimidation against demonstrators across the country since the demonstrations erupted in October. The organization has documented the use of lethal force by the security forces, including live ammunition, against peaceful demonstrators, the use of tear gas canisters intended for warfare that cause fatal and horrific injuries, as well as kidnappings and enforced disappearances, since the demonstrations erupted on October 1, .
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[size=18]Amnesty International today, Monday, accused the Iraqi authorities of failing fully to take any action against a "deadly and growing campaign of harassment, intimidation, kidnapping and deliberate killing" of activists and demonstrators in Baghdad and other Iraqi cities, calling on them to fulfill their responsibilities and take immediate and effective steps.
The organization said in a statement, it collected the testimonies of nine activists, demonstrators and relatives of the missing activists in [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] , [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] and [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] , in which they described what is currently going on as a campaign of terrorism and none of them is safe, after a number of demonstrators and activists were killed, or were kidnapped and forcibly disappeared over the course of The past two weeks, while most of them were on their way home after participating in the demonstrations. Others managed to escape in the wake of attempts to shoot them. "
" The authorities' absolute failure to take any action during the past weeks has paved the way for this horrific new phase of a blatant and full-fledged attempt to crush the protest demonstrations in [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] by spreading terror in the hearts of the people ," said [url=https://www.alsumaria.tv/Entity/1430629892/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86 %D9%85%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%88%D9%81/ar/]Lynn Maalouf[/url] , director of Middle East research at Amnesty International . This failure by the government indicates, at the very least, its tacit acceptance of enforced disappearance, torture and unlawful killing of demonstrators who took to the streets to demand their human rights and, in some cases, their complicity. "[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
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[url=https://www.alsumaria.tv/Entity/1430629892/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86 %D9%85%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%88%D9%81/ar/]Lyn Maalouf[/url] added , "The government's resignation does not mean that it can abandon its responsibilities; rather, it remains the primary authority responsible for protecting every individual in the country, including demonstrators who should be allowed to freedom of peaceful assembly without fear of repression, as well as terrorizing them by kidnapping or Even being shot. "
"Activists and demonstrators reported a series of assassination attempts targeting protesters, especially during their return to their homes from the demonstration areas during the past week. Some demonstrators said that the indiscriminate targeting of activists and demonstrators created an atmosphere of terror; one of the demonstrators explained this by saying" We are all We try to understand this pattern, but when an ordinary protester and a prominent activist alike are targeted, we see only one pattern: terrorizing everyone, targeting everyone. "
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] southern [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] , while the body of another activist, [url=https://www.alsumaria.tv/Entity/1736508004/%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%8A %D9%86%D8%AC%D9%85 %D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A/ar/]Ali Najm al-Lami, was found[/url] in [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] early December morning on 11 December, with gunshot wounds to the head. Activists and witnesses whom Amnesty International spoke to said that Ali - who was originally from Wasit governorate - was then on his way to his relatives' home from the demonstrations in Tahrir Square.
Another eyewitness said to the organization that masked men in a car shot three protesters earlier in the week, while returning from Tahrir Square to their homes in the east of the capital, Baghdad; two of them were wounded.
Another protester from [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] said, “They shot at us; our snipers, and now they are waiting for us in the alleys and near our homes… Before the start of these shooting incidents, we passed a week that we called“ Knives nights. ”We used to see men and boys dressed in normal clothes, coming to the demonstrations. And as if they were demonstrators, then they started quarrels. I saw one of them trying to sexually harass a protester, and when some of the protesters entered to prevent him, he quarreled with them. Suddenly, others beat the demonstrators, and during that chaos three protesters were stabbed, and nobody knows who did this.
A demonstrator from [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] described[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]How could he and another protester manage to escape after armed men fired six or seven gunshots at their car, after they stopped the car and asked its passengers to get out of it. He said he had reported the incident to the local authorities, referring to the security television cameras at the scene, but he was told that these cameras were out of order. Officials later confirmed to the witnesses that these gunmen were local police.
In the context of a pattern of disappearances and kidnappings, the demonstrator [url=https://www.alsumaria.tv/Entity/2852256033/%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86 %D8%AE%D9%8A%D8%B1 %D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%D9%87/ar/]Salman Khairallah and[/url] another protester were subjected to enforced disappearance in the Al-Kadhimiya neighborhood in [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]On December 11, he went to buy tents for protesters in Tahrir Square; Salman's relatives said that the two men had not answered their phones in the afternoon, and at around 3 p.m. their phones looked like they were closed. They have not received any news from them since, despite their review of local authorities to inquire about them. They said that Salman "received indirect threats about two weeks ago that he was under surveillance ... but he ignored it." Relatives expressed to Amnesty International their belief that the two men are being held in a detention facility at Al-Muthanna Airport for interrogation.
Another detainee said in [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]To Amnesty International that on 8 December masked men on a motorcycle tried to force her to ride in a black four-wheel drive vehicle while she was trying to leave the demonstrations near the city's education yard. She noted that one of the women drivers was interrogated earlier this week about her fundraising activities and medical assistance to protesters in the city.
A protester in [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] told Amnesty International: "You cannot imagine the fear we are feeling now; but there is no point in escaping, so they clearly know where the activists live; and they know where our families live."
Another protester from [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] told Amnesty International: “They (the militants) are everywhere, but we don’t see them. There are streets in [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]The protesters completely avoid them because there are people who have disappeared in their alleys; there are demonstrators who have not left Tahrir Square for weeks, fearing they will be exposed to any harm while returning to their homes. ”
On December 11, a number of protesters who had been forcibly disappeared on December 6 were released December in the Al-Sank area of the capital, [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] after their arrival in [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] and video footage taken of the released demonstrators upon their arrival in [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] showed bruises and their inability to walk without support. An eyewitness described one of the released protesters as saying: “His face was blue. And looked He was clearly beaten. "
The protesters condemned the authorities' silence regarding the kidnappings and attempts to kill the demonstrators. One of them added, "It is inconceivable that all of these videotapes taken by security television cameras did not lead to the arrest of anyone; the government resigned and forgotten that it still has a duty to protect people." [url=https://www.alsumaria.tv/Entity/1430629892/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86 %D9%85%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%88%D9%81/ar/]Lynn Maalouf[/url]
concluded , "The international community must raise its voice, expressing its dissatisfaction with the disturbing situations in [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] , and seeking to address them immediately, as it takes a new turn that threatens with further exacerbation and escalation. The Iraqi people have suffered from too long and successive waves of violence; It must be ended. "[url=https://www.alsumaria.tv/Entity/1430629892/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86 %D9%85%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%88%D9%81/ar/][/url][You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
Amnesty International has been urging the Iraqi authorities to put an end to the ongoing campaign of relentless intimidation against demonstrators across the country since the demonstrations erupted in October. The organization has documented the use of lethal force by the security forces, including live ammunition, against peaceful demonstrators, the use of tear gas canisters intended for warfare that cause fatal and horrific injuries, as well as kidnappings and enforced disappearances, since the demonstrations erupted on October 1, .
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