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Iraqi security sources have deployed tear gas in Baghdad’s Green Zone against thousands of supporters of influential Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.

Protests against corruption, which are also demanding changes in the Iraq’s current election laws, are taking place in the center of the Iraqi capital for the second consecutive day.

On Friday, people gathered in Tahrir Square holding up placards reading: “Peace! No to corrupt authorities.” Similar demonstration took place on Wednesday.

The area, which is also known as the International Zone of Baghdad, is home to the Iraqi parliament, government buildings, and many foreign embassies.

A local activist and journalist posted a photo of one of the alleged victims.

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi called on the participants in the rally to “abide by the law,” Reuters reported.

Last year, thousands of the cleric’s loyalists staged two major protests just outside the heavily fortified Green Zone. In April of 2016, crowds entered the parliamentary building in the Green Zone, prompting the authorities to declare a state of emergency in the Iraqi capital.

Al-Sadr became a prominent figure after his so-called Mahdi Army fought US troops during the 2003 invasion. The Iraqi army was dissolved in 2008 and replaced by the Peace Brigades.

Alsumaria News / Baghdad
He called the cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, on Monday, to postpone the demonstrations in front of court time and planned on Tuesday, face a “crawling” toward the Turkish Embassy to support the army and the liberation of Mosul, “the terrorists and the Turkish arsenal”

Sadr said in a televised speech followed up, Alsumaria News, “the aspects of my words to my dear ones in revolt for reform, and tell them that it has become necessary for us to and from the door of the fulfillment of our military and appreciation for Oagaftna courage in Mosul humpback beloved that we postpone the Tazahratna peaceful Mhamtna before the time the court to go thousands Zahvin about embassy Turkish “.

He said al-Sadr, “to hear your voice and peaceful means and literary without infringe upon or are aware of the state unified moral and chants of you will support this army and Mjahidikm to liberate Mosul from terrorists and Turkish arsenal that sits on the land of the province without respect for our land and our sovereignty.”

He said al-Sadr, “deeply regret with an understanding of the power of the same date to hear the voice of the embassy to be a warning to anyone who thinks he is able to occupy Iraq and his land.”

He called Sadrist leader Muqtada al-Sadr on Tuesday (October 11, 2016) on Iraqis to demonstrate in front of time the court (Federal Supreme Court headquarters in Baghdad) on Tuesday for “a peaceful epic Underline” to reject the return of “corrupt” to their office, while stressing should not be reduced to the demonstration category or a particular stream.