Demonstrators opposed to Moqtada al-Sadr, an Iraqi leader, staged a protest near a fortified government zone in Baghdad. Al-Sadr's supporters, who took over the Iraqi parliament last week, are calling for new government elections. Thousands of demonstrators opposed to Iraq's powerful cleric Moqtada al-Sadr staged a protest on Monday at the edge of Baghdad's fortified government zone, where Sadr's supporters were holding an open-ended occupation of Iraq's parliament. That grouping, known as the Shi'ite Coordination Framework, said Monday's protest aimed to protect state institutions against the civil unrest of the Sadrists. Outside Baghdad's Green Zone, which houses the parliament building which Sadr's supporters took over last week, the protesters threw stones at police.

Source: News 24 August 01, 2022 20:22 UTC