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Iraqi clerics incite protest against government corruption
http://www.dw.com/en/iraqi-clerics-incite-protest-against-government-corruption/a-18635316Thousands of ordinary Iraqis have braved scorching temperatures to denounce government corruption. A top Shiite cleric has been denouncing state corruption and putting the government on notice.
Iraqi clerics incite protest against government corruption
07.08.2015
For the second Friday in a row, thousands of ordinary Iraqis braved the summer Mesopotamian heat in central Baghdad and other cities to denounce high-level government corruption.
"In the name of religion, the thieves robbed us," many chanted long into the evening.
Aside from the capital, all the demonstrations took place in the predominately Shiite south -- the power base of many of Iraq's top political parties.
Earlier in the day, leading Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani used a Friday prayer sermon to call on Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to take a tougher stand against corruption and name and shame those impeding reform.
