2011/07/23

Attack aginst the Iraqi Activist Hayder Hamzoz

By: Mustafa Saad
Translation BY :- Wameeth Al-kassab

In a repeating case of attacks on civil activists ,journalists , reporters ,and press freedom in Iraq ,another attack took place today , freedom of speech is not protected by the press freedom law that had been issued by the Iraqi journalists league that received governmental support ,they along with several organizations in Iraq including the media protection center and the center to protect press freedom and anther many press and media protecting institute all who had no effective role in protecting the free voices in Iraq against the oppressive power of violence to silence the free voices of press and media
For the 2nd time the Iraqi civil activists hayder hamzoz was attack and beaten in tahrir square on the bab alsharqy distract in Baghdad, Iraq as he was covering civilian peaceful demonstrations each Friday
For those who donot know tahrir square it is a majore sequare and park in the center of Baghdad city where for the past few months Iraqi people gather there every Friday since last February to demonstrate for their legal rights for better life and services as electricity, water and fuel ,also many prisoners and détentes families came to ask for their relatives fats and rights ,they all call for reform of the governing system and clear the government from corruption

Hayder hamzoz is one of the activists who since the start of the demonstrations work to cover and post material to cover the activities of the demonstrators and the youth of the tahrir square ,he is a leading activists in calling for reform and stop corruption and activating human rights for the Iraqi people
On the 22 of April he was first attack by group of governmental thugs, they beat him and stole his touch mobile which he used to cover the gatherings and peaceful demonstrations, this happened in front of the Iraqi forces 11 platoon which is responsible to surrounded the demonstrators every Friday and oppress them with the help of a groups of civilians who beats and attack them, the spokesman for Baghdad army command operations described the attack as a normal fight among group of young people
The 2nd attack and the most recent took place on the 22 of July 2011 ,came after many threats send to hayder to close his facebook account and stop his blogs and work
Today demonstration suffered of infiltration of many thugs and governmental against in civilian cloths ,they stopped the protesters from burning the Iranian flag and started several anti-bath calls which lead to a conflict with the demonstrators , this lead to army forces to interfere and starts to shoot live ammunition randomly on the demonstrators ,hayder cover this shooting on his camera ,as soon as the forces notice that they attack him and a group of soldiers beats him and kick him with their boots ,also they stool his mobile and his camera and they handed it to the against in civilian cloths ,

To our frind hamzoz we say that your blood and tears worth more than anything they steal ,smile our brother as night must end and chains shall be broken as long as it takes ,and those who are attach to power and chairs should remember saddam 35 yrs end ,how his power was defeated in the end and fall and lead us to such stat
Smile ,we are used to take courage from your smile ,you and all the tahrir heroes


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2011/04/26

The details of April 22 attack in Tahreer Sq






The details of April 22 attack in Tahreer Sq
It wasn’t the first of its kind there was many before in Baghdad and all over Iraq the security forces and the government wants to end the demonstrations in any way (attacking the protesters one of them)…and attacking the journalists to keep them away from saying the truth..
I was as usual posting the news from Tahreer Sq in Baghdad when some young men come to me and ask me about my phone (Galaxy Tab: its new kind of phones make it easy to connect to the social media websites) after that they toke the phone from me and hits me I struggled with them and toke back my phone..But they become more than 9 persons so I run to (Aluma) Garden trying to not making them steal my phone again…But they are many so I stay down on the ground holding my phone…So they come around me and start hit me using their hands and foots during that I start bleeding and I almost fainted and while they hitting me I saw the security forces prevented the protesters from helping me and watching the gang while they hitting me..And I couldn’t take it so they toke the phone from me …and then they run away from Tahreer Sq…We told the security forces that they stole the phone go catch them but they don’t care …they helped them to run away from Tahreer Sq and under the eyes of the commander of the security forces …and I wasn’t the only one they hit friends of mine was trying to help me …I went with the NGOs activist (Hanna Adwar) to the officer and we told them what they did(sending security forces wearing civilian clothes between the protesters ) is a very bad behavior from the government and your aim is to silence the protesters and his answer was it’s not my call .
What happened today gave me one lesson there are no such thing called (CHANGE or REFORMING THE REJEM) without sacrifices to speak the truth about what is happening in Iraq …
Is this the new democracy of the new Iraq …its democracy full of blood? …aiming to silence the youth and the press from saying the truth
what I’m saying now I have god to protect me and I will be there in Tahreer Sq next Friday posting the news ..
and to my friends who was really good friends to me thank you so much and be proud for being an Iraqi and be patient and don’t go to the ways that the bad people wants you to go to …don’t use the violence languages ….and it will be always peaceful demonstrations in Iraq
And here is a big smile from me to you
Hamzoz Iraqi blogger
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