The Hill News

Amnesty International recently issued a damning report detailing the various human rights abuses being committed by the Iraqi authorities in cracking down on protests against the Iraqi leadership. In the past week alone, over a dozen political activists have been arrested in Iraq to try and prevent further protests at the lack of reform inside the country. Unfortunately in the deluge of protests spreading across the Middle East the plight of the Iraqi people and the violent crackdown by Nuri Al-Maliki's forces against peaceful protests by the Iraqi population has been lost.

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