PM speaker: Al-Khadimi directed not to use weapons and provide protection for the demonstrators

Baghdad - INA

The Prime Minister and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, instructed today, Thursday, not to use weapons, provide protection for demonstrators, and confront rioters.

A spokesman for the Prime Minister, Ahmed Mulla Talal, said in a tweet followed by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), that "the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, met with the security leaders in Basra and directed not to use weapons for any reason whatsoever and to punish all those who violate these orders according to the law.”.

  He aslo added, "Al-Kadhimi directed to protect the right to peaceful protest and to confront with high professionalism the rioters and those who violate the security forces.