Anti-Maliki Demonstrations Spread In Iraq

Anti-Government Protests Rage Across Iraq -- Al Jazeera

Minority Sunnis continue widespread protests to demand end to allegedly sectarian policies of Shia-led government.

Thousands of Sunni Iraqis have continued to protest in Fallujah and other in Iraqi cities against the Shia-led government in Baghdad.

Protesters after Friday prayers in the province of al-Anbar, the heartland of Iraq’s Sunni population, demanded the release of prisoners and the end to allegedly sectarian policies.

The government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki released fourteen female prisoners a day earlier, but the measure did not seem to have defused tension.

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