Iraq expelled the Swedish ambassador on Thursday in protest at a planned burning of the Quran in Stockholm that had prompted hundreds of protesters to storm and set alight the Swedish embassy in Ba…
the attack on the embassy and criticized Iraq’s security forces for not preventing protesters from breaching the diplomatic post. to protest against the second planned Quran burning in Sweden in weeks, according to posts in a popular Telegram group linked to the influential cleric and other pro-Sadr media.
Supporters of Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr ‘Mahdi Army’ stormed the Swedish embassy over a planned burning of the Quran.Several videos posted to the Telegram group, One Baghdad, showed people gathering around the Swedish embassy around 1 a.m. on Thursday chanting pro-Sadr slogans and storming the embassy complex about an hour later.Videos later showed smoke rising from a building in the embassy complex and protesters standing on its roof.
Iraqi riot police try to disperse supporters of Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr gathering for a protest outside the Swedish embassy in Baghdad.Iraqi security forces later charged at a few dozen protesters still milling around outside the embassy to try to clear them from the area.Protesters had earlier briefly thrown rocks towards the large number of security forces gathered.
The police rejected several applications earlier this year for protests that were set to include burning the Quran, citing security concerns, but courts have since overturned the police’s decisions, saying such acts are protected by Sweden’s far-reaching freedom of speech laws.
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