Action Needed to End Iraq Killings

Expand Protesters gather while security forces close River Street during ongoing anti-government protests in Baghdad, Iraq, December 10, 2019. © 2019 AP Photo/Hadi Mizban As protests in Iraq enter their third month, the numbers of arrests, abductions, and killings of protesters continue to rise. But instead of protecting the demonstrators mostly peacefully protesting on Iraq’s streets, some security forces are the ones attacking and killing them. Prime Minister Adil Abd Al-Mahdi had promised in a letter to Human Rights Watch that security forces would no longer use live ammunition against…

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