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Students and other demonstrators hold national flags during a protest to condemn a militia attack on Najaf protesters last week
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IRAQI women have called for urgent international action to deal with growing violence against protesters amid a rise in attacks by armed militias.
Today the Iraqi Women’s League condemned the “excessive violence committed by the Iraqi security services.”
At least 600 people have been killed since the anti-government uprising started in October.
Women’s fight against violence and legal erosion is central to building a democratic and just Iraq, says Dr SALMA SAADAWI
Anyone who criticises those in power in Kenya risks their freedom or worse. The brutal abduction of Booker Omole marks a new escalation in a country sliding toward authoritarian rule, says MARC VANDEPITTE
MOHAMMAD OMIDVAR, a senior figure in the Tudeh Party of Iran, tells the Morning Star that mass protests are rooted in poverty, corruption and neoliberal rule and warns against monarchist revival and US-engineered regime change
Home Secretary Cooper confirms plans to ban the group and claims its peaceful activists ‘meet the legal threshold under the Terrorism Act 2000’