Demonstration in Baghdad supporting Egyptian people’s protests:

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: A number of Iraqi intellectuals, representatives of social community organizations and cultural leagues, as well as ordinary citizens, went to the streets in Central Baghdad‘s al-Tahrir (Liberation) Square on Tuesday, in a peaceful demonstration to express support for the protests of the Egyptian people. “This demonstration is an expression by the Iraqi people and confirmation that they are free people, facing several problems, but at the same time, to express support for the Arab people in Egypt, Tunisia and other Arab countries that shall witness similar changes to those that took place in Iraq, though with foreign interference,” the Executive Director of Iraq‘s Press Freedoms Center, Hadi Jallo Mar’i, said. On his part, one of the people who participated in the demonstration, Habib Dahir, said: “There are countries, preparing for uprising, such as Morocco, Yemen, Jordan and others, are witnessing a broad change movement and that the new Middle East shall be present in the forthcoming phase, and not according to the American will.” “We are proud to stand under the Statue of Liberty, supporting the Egyptian People‘s revolution, now standing in Cairo’s Liberation Square,” Mar’i said. Another demonstator, Habib Dhahir, said: “the Egyptian people are genuine people, demanding free elections and change, similar to other peoples, which is a legitimate right,” demanding “Arab rulers to allow the Arab youth to share in building the Arab Homeland, instead of insisting to stay in their positions for long years, without looking at the demands of the Arab peoples and their sufferings.” Also sharing in the demonstration had been the National Youth and the Cultural Tributaries League, as well as the Woman Freedom Organization in Iraq. IT / SKH 279