Iraq 0
20 August 2020

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stated that “we are outraged by the targeted assassinations of civil society activists and attacks on protesters in Basra and Baghdad… We urge the government of Iraq to take immediate steps to hold accountable the militias, thugs and criminal gangs attacking Iraqis exercising their right to peaceful protest”.

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