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All-women protest held in Iraq holy city
by Staff Writers
Najaf, Iraq (AFP) Feb 19, 2020

Hundreds of Iraqi women staged a march Wednesday in the Shiite holy city of Najaf insisting on their right to play a central role in the protest movement sweeping the country.

"No voice can muffle the voices of women," said one of the marchers, Saba, 22, reacting to a call from influential Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr against mixed-sex demonstrations.

"We started demonstrating to bring down the regime. Now we're holding women-only marches because they've insulted us," she told AFP.

Nada Qassem, a university professor in her 50s, also focused her criticism on Sadr, who at first supported street protests but later turned against them over demonstrators' alleged use of drugs and alcohol.

"We are free. We don't go out on the orders of a cleric or stop because of some decree," said Qassem, who herself was injured in attacks on anti-government protesters by Sadr's supporters.

Around 550 people have been killed since the movement erupted in October, almost all in clashes between young demonstrators and security forces.


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Mocking clerics, falling in love at rallies and mending a broken society: even if Iraq's young protesters have failed to overthrow entrenched politicians, they have scored by shattering decades-old taboos. Since October, the country of 40 million has been rocked by a historically large grassroots movement with big goals: ending corruption, unaccountable sectarian parties and overreach from neighbouring Iran. Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi resigned in December, only to be replaced by ex-minister ... read more

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