2019-12-12 11:17:44

Shafaq News / Saleh Muhammad al-Iraqi, close to the leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr announced on Thursday, a deadline to present the "terrorists".

"Within 48 hours, if the terrorists are not presented, the blue hats men should withdraw from the demonstrations in Baghdad," al-Iraqi said in a post on social media.

It is noteworthy that a gunman opened fire on the demonstrators randomly from his house in Al-Wathba Square, killing four people.Then, protesters surrounded ,killed and hung him on a pillar in the middle of the street

On Wednesday, the UN mission to Iraq, "UNAMI", said that militias targeted and kidnapped prominent activists in the Iraqi demonstrations.

In its third report on the protests in Iraq released yesterday, the mission said it had received credible information that demonstrators and prominent activists had been targeted and arrested by security forces and groups described as "militia."

"Credible information also indicates that security forces arrested people from their homes and their vehicles and held them in solitary confinement during the investigation, and their detention may have been on grounds of national security," the mission added.

On the basis of this information, the mission added, "groups that have been described as" militia "have kidnapped at least five prominent activists and demonstrators in Baghdad and held them in solitary confinement in unofficial detention sites for several days while being interrogated."