Iraqi diaspora abroad due to the targeting of activists.. What do the Sadrists want?

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Iraqi diaspora abroad due to the targeting of activists.. What do the Sadrists want?

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The attack on Dargham Majid brought back the memory of the scenes of the Al-Tawathi incident (Facebook)

The scenes of the attack on civil activist [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] brought back to memory the events of February 1, 2020, during the October protests, or what was later known as the “ Al- [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] ” carried out by groups of Sadrist movement’s supporters against the Tahrir Square protesters and the subsequent campaign of chases and harassment that he was subjected to. Activists in a number of protest squares in the center and south of the country, most notably the burning of the camps of Al-Haboubi [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] in the governorates of Dhi Qar and Najaf.

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The Sadrist movement has a record of harassment of activists who criticize the movement's policies, some of whom have been forced to flee outside Iraq.

The activist, Dargham Majed, had recently left the hospital after he was severely injured as a result of [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] by a group protecting the representative of the Sadrist movement, Suha al-Sultani, which officials in the Sadrist movement justified as being in defense of "the honor of Iraqi women", as the head of the Sadrist bloc called Hassan. Al-Adari in [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] on his personal account on "Facebook".

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On the other hand, Dargham [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] father - a well-known cleric in the province of Babil - responded that his son defends the honor of Iraqi women and does not want them to make a living from waste because of the corruption of the political class.

Threatening activists and their families

According to activists in the protest movement and observers of public affairs, the Sadrist movement has a record of harassment of activists and bloggers who criticize the movement's policies, and that some of them were forced to flee outside Iraq because of the dangers posed by their critical stances.

In this context, Hassan, or "Hassan Basket Ball" as he is known, an activist in the Dhi Qar protest square, recounts his personal experience with the Sadrist movement, as he was subjected to a campaign of incitement on social media by Sadrist bloggers and influential figures in the movement.

Hassan says in an interview with Ultra Iraq, "The incitement against me has continued since the end of 2019 coinciding with the outbreak of the October protests, because I am one of the influential names in the protest movement in Dhi Qar Governorate, and the incitement against me has continued until now."

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Gunmen attacked the home of a civilian activist, threatening his family because of his criticism of the policies of the leader of the Sadrist movement

With the first moments of the outbreak of the Al-Khatib Hospital fire, which ended [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] time, Hassan published a post on his Facebook page, “In which I criticized, implicitly, the leader of the Sadrist movement.

Hassan, who is currently residing in Turkey for security reasons related to his personal safety, adds that "large leaders in the Sadrist movement at the level of the movement's protest committee, leaders in Saraya al-Salam and officials in the media office of the movement sent me direct messages threatening liquidation, and then an armed attack on my house by a force It consists of 8 armed wheels belonging to the current.

In April 2021, [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] documenting the attack on Hassan's house was published, showing a number of gunmen threatening a member of his family, asking them to deter their son and prevent him from criticizing the policies of the leader of the Sadrist movement.

This came despite the assurances of a family member that Hassan is outside the governorate and that his family does not bear the consequences of his political stances. However, the person in the video continued to threaten and threaten, which led to the launch of a wide campaign of solidarity with Hassan and his family, in addition to appeals by activists who demanded the leader of the movement. by preventing his followers from being exposed to the activists’ families; However, an official response was not issued by the leadership of the movement, despite the presence of threats to blow up the family's house "on their heads", according to Hassan's claim.

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As the date of the legislative elections approached last October, the Sadrist movement reduced its rhetoric and behavior towards civil activists and protesters in an effort described by observers as coming in the context of the Sadrist movement's attempts to restore its declining popularity after its positions on the October protests.

The Sadrist movement had lost about 500 thousand votes from its electoral bloc, which in the 2018 elections amounted to nearly one and a half million voters, according to the statistics of the High Elections Commission.

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Activists point out that there is something like a diaspora for young Iraqi protesters spread over the Kurdistan region, Turkey and Lebanon

Nearly two years after fleeing his city of Dhi Qar, which he spent moving between Baghdad, the Kurdistan region and Turkey, "Hassan Basket Paul" reveals that there are attempts by Sadrist movement officials to win over him and a number of other activists fleeing outside their cities, coinciding with the launch of the movement's propaganda campaign ahead of the October elections. last October.

Hassan said in an interview with Ultra Iraq, "Officials in the Sadrist movement tried to employ me as a propaganda material in exchange for guarantees to provide protection for me and my family and to return to Iraq, provided that the Sadrist movement and its leader Muqtada al-Sadr are not harmed."

Hassan added, "As protest activists, we have nothing to lose but ourselves and the lives of our families, which are cheap in front of the sacrifices made by the Tishreen youth."

A civil movement for the forcibly deported

The past few months at the end of 2021 witnessed the movement of a group of activists in the protest movement who were forced to flee the country due to threats they were exposed to by armed factions following the October protests, to announce last December 21 the establishment of the Association of Forcibly Displaced Persons (Rumaq).

Hamza Al-Daraji, a member of Remaq, spoke to Ultra Iraq about the nature of the organization's work. Al-Daraji says that "The League of Forcibly Displaced Persons is concerned with defending the rights of protesters, activists and human rights defenders who have been kidnapped, subjected to assassination attempts, or subjected to threats by armed militias or authoritarian parties. It has contributed to their expulsion from their homes and areas under duress under the influence of uncontrolled weapons or through malicious claims." .

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Researchers point out a methodology of the current that aims to prevent any party from competing with it in controlling the street as a pressure tool for the movement in front of its opponents.

Al-Daraji points out that “(Ramaq) was able to collect preliminary data on a number of forcibly deported females and males inside and outside Iraq, all of them were either subjected to failed assassination attempts or threats targeting their physical safety after the October movement, and we are still in the process of creating an integrated database with numbers and details about All forcibly deported.

Since the first days of its launch, the organization has started publishing profiles with the stories of a number of young people fleeing outside Iraq in an attempt to bring the issue of the victims of the October protests back to the fore after it was neglected under the weight of political and economic events after the protest subsided.

According to Al-Darraji, the association seeks to "effectively communicate with all local and international human rights organizations in order to pay attention to the difficult humanitarian situation that the forcibly deported has been going through for more than two years," stressing the organization's efforts to "take legal steps towards those who persecuted the activists and caused their deportation outside Iraq." ".

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The behavior of the current towards the protesters

Talking about the Sadrist movement’s behavior towards the protest movement, researchers and political analysts point out a “methodology” of the movement aimed at “preventing any party, regardless of its claims, from competing with it in controlling the street, as it is one of the movement’s most important tools of pressure, which it has repeatedly used to brandish its opponents.”

On the other hand, others believe that "these clashes that take place from time to time are nothing more than local clashes arising from their moment and cannot be placed in the context of a systematic behavior followed by the movement, as researcher Aqil Abbas believes that "the relationship between the Sadrist movement and the protest movement is ambiguous and is dominated by mutual suspicion."

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Researchers say that this condoning and silence about the suppression of the protesters may lose the movement the beginnings of sympathy that began to appear due to its positions regarding the majority government.

In an interview with Ultra Iraq, Abbas indicated that "the problem does not lie in the behavior of the Sadrist base, as it is a politically unorganized mass, but is ideologically and ideologically loyal to the leader of the movement and acts on the basis of its feelings and reactions, which in specific contexts go towards violence and which have a previous, long and ancient record. It is repeated."

Abbas explains that "the problem lies in the politically organized aspect within the structure of the Sadrist movement, as he interprets its silence about the behavior of the mass base, which tends to violence, as a state of satisfaction with this behavior."

The province of Babylon had witnessed a gathering of representatives of the Sadrist bloc in front of the house of Representative Suha Al-Sultani to provide support and assistance, after the representatives of the extension movement announced their intention to hold an open sit-in in front of the house of the representative until the extradition of those involved in the attack on activist Dergham Majid, which was later retracted by the extension movement.

The researcher Aqil Abbas links between the behavior of the institutionalized side within the movement and its condoning of the behavior of the Sadrist base, and the space of sympathizers with the discourse that the movement is currently adopting.

He adds: "The politically organized side within the movement must take a clear position on these actions carried out by the Sadrist base, because in the end it counts against it and does not gain it an audience."

He asserts that "this condoning and silence may lose the current beginnings of sympathy that began to appear because of its positions regarding the majority government, and that it wants to lead an important change in the country."

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Iraqi diaspora abroad due to the targeting of activists.. What do the Sadrists want?

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