Demonstrations Activist released in Kut

WASSIT / IraqiNews.com: A civilian activist, charged with instigating citizens to demonstrate had been released in southern Iraq ’s city of Kut , a Wassit police source reported on Saturday.   “The Police had released the Young Lawyer and Activist, Sajjad Salem, for a 5-million-dinar bale,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency, adding that Salem was detained in front of his house in Kut on Sept. 8 th .   On his part, Sajjad Salem told IraqiNews.com that he was detained by a National Security Force in front of his house in Kut last Thursday, without a legal memo, after his application to the Security Bodies, demanding approval to demonstrate on Friday, 9/9/2011.   “The investigators have charged me with a series of accusations, such as my links to foreign states, leadership of youth and relations group, charged for instigation against the State, sharing in Baghdad ’s al-Tahrir Square demonstration and challenging the security authorities by insisting to share in Friday, 9/9/2011 demonstrations,” he said.   Salem said that he was “sent by the Intelligence and National Security Forces to the Directorate General of Anti-Terrorism in Wassit Province , that decided to release him in an Investigation Judge’s order, by a 5-million dinar bale.”   Sajjad Salem is a lawyer and activist of the Civil Society Organizations, in charge of organizing a demonstration that took place on Friday and carrying the Identity of a Participant in the Iraqi Journalists Syndicate.   Kut, the center of Wassit Province , is 180 km to the southeast of Baghdad .   SKH (RT)