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Freelance journalist/researcher with a passion for the struggle for democracy, human rights & wildlife preservation. Reporting on wars, uprisings & conservation

Jan 25, 2020, 6 tweets

#Iraq 🇮🇶: another bad day in #Baghdad. Security forces have started clearing streets, burning down tents. Protesters are in tears

#Iraq 🇮🇶: Tahrir Square is flooding with hundreds of protesters, trying to prevent a clearing of the protest site

#Iraq 🇮🇶: night has fallen in #Baghdad and protesters are still out on Tahrir Square.

Seems the pro-reform movement lives to fight another day

#Iraq 🇮🇶: songs of revolution on Tahrir Square tonight. The protesters' spirit remains unbroken

#Iraq 🇮🇶: packed streets in the southern city #Kut as thousands of protesters are marching against the government and militias

"Your bullets fear me, because I will not die. This is my voice and the voice of every Iraqi guy!"

#Nasiriyah, #Iraq 🇮🇶

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