Iraq: Investigate Fatal Police Shootings in Mosul
HRW reports (March 16th): Iraqi authorities
should order an immediate, transparent, and independent investigation into
lethal police and army shootings of anti-government protesters on March 8,
2013, and others in recent weeks. The authorities should also ensure that those
responsible for unlawful killings or excessive force are brought to justice.
Police may have killed one person and wounded others when
they fired on protesters in Mosul on March 8, 2013. Soldiers who opened fire on
demonstrators in Fallujah on January 25 killed nine people. Human Rights Watch
on March 9 interviewed witnesses to the Mosul shootings, who said soldiers also
searched and harassed demonstrators as they approached the protest site and
tried to prevent ambulances from carrying away wounded people.
Clashes mark Iraq anti-government protests
Al Jazeera reports (March 15th): Protesters have
clashed with police in a wave of anti-government protests to hit at least three
cities in Iraq, police officials say.
The protests took place in Ramadi, Samara and Baghdad
against what the participants described as government sectarian policies that
target Sunni Muslims.
Anti-riot police in Baghdad used batons and water hoses in
order to prevent worshippers from crossing a bridge leading to the most
venerated Sunni mosque in the capital, located in the primarily Sunni
neighbourhood of Azamiyah
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