Thursday, February 10, 2011

2-10-11 Lawyers lead anti-government protest in Baghdad

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1. Iraq's lawyers union organized a 3,000 person demonstration to demand better services, jobs, and the end of human rights abuses in prisons
2. The demonstrations were held on Thursday in a Sunni Muslim neighborhood in western Baghdad
3. Lawyers in the cities of Basra and Mosoul held similar but smaller demonstrations
4. On Sunday, protesters scuffled with riot police and marched along sewage-filled streets in demonstrations across Iraq

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