Almost twenty years after its "liberation" and three years since the great demonstrations of an exasperated population, Iraq is still trapped in an eternal political loop that prevents it from emerging from the chaos and evident deterioration into which it is progressively sinking. October 1 marked the third anniversary of that uprising against political immobility, elite corruption, poor administration and the malfunctioning of public services, all of which contribute even more to the exasperation of a population that has no way out of its evident lack of hope. That protest movement, which spread to the entire southern half of the country, resulted in 600 dead and 30,000 injured, the result of a violent repression that was only mitigated by the confinement decreed by the coronavirus pandemic.
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Jasb Hattab Aboud had been an outspoken voice in campaigning for his missing activist son
A social media picture of Jasb Hattab Aboud (Twitter) By Published date: 11 March 2021 11:34 UTC | Last update: 3 weeks ago
The assassination of the outspoken father of an activist who disappeared during Iraq s 2019 anti-government protests has sparked outrage in the country.
Jasb Hattab Aboud was shot in the head on Wednesday evening in the southern city of Amara in Maysan province, according to Iraq s semi-official Independent Human Rights Commission (IHRC).
Associated Press cited Ali al-Bayati, a spokesperson for the IHRC and a security official, as saying more details would be forthcoming and that authorities had yet to identify the culprit.