What the records say
- When
- 27 Jul 2022
- Kind
- Protest
- Coordinates
- 33.31° N, 44.39° E
- Description
- Iraqi demonstrations
2022 Iraq parliament attack
2022 storming of Iraqi parliament
On 27 July 2022, hundreds of Iraqi demonstrators supporting Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr stormed the Council of Representatives of Iraq building located in the Green Zone in the Iraqi capital Baghdad. The storming, known as the "Ashura Revolution" or the "Muharram Revolution" by Sadrists, came after news was leaked about the nomination of Shiite forces opposed to the Sadrist movement, Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani,…
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