{"id":840,"date":"2020-03-25T14:24:43","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T14:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/?p=840"},"modified":"2020-03-25T14:24:43","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T14:24:43","slug":"ifir-condemns-iraqi-government-threat-to-dissolve-owfi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/2020\/03\/25\/ifir-condemns-iraqi-government-threat-to-dissolve-owfi\/","title":{"rendered":"IFIR condemns\u00a0Iraqi government threat\u00a0to dissolve OWFI"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">International Federation of Iraqi Refugees-IFIR understands that the Iraqi Government has threatened to dissolve Organisation of Women\u2019s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI). \u00a0The General secretariat of the Iraqi council of ministers have also filed a lawsuit against the president of OWFI.\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><!--more--><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">OWFI believe this action has been instigated against them by Adel Abdul Mahdi the outgoing Prime Minister as an act of revenge on OWFI, because OWFI has taken part in protests calling for the Prime Minster to resign. \u00a0IFIR call Iraqi government to dismiss these charges against the OWFI Director and allow OWFI to continue its work unhindered.\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">We support\u00a0the protests against corruption and stand alongside the\u00a0Iraqi people\u00a0and support their fight for a better life,\u00a0freedom and equality.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">Further to this\u00a0we call on Iraqi Government\u00a0to action\u00a0the following demands:<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">1-\u00a0To dismiss these charges against the OWFI Director and allow OWFI to continue its work\u00a0unhindered.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">2-\u00a0To fulfill all the demands of the demonstrators<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">3-\u00a0Acknowledging the freedom to demonstrate and protest without restriction<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">4-Pulling the armed forces out of the streets and ending the manifestations of militarization of society and intimidation<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">5-To release\u00a0all the detained protestors\u00a0immediately and stop pursuing the demonstrators<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">6-Dissolving all militias, closing their headquarters, confiscating their weapons, and holding them accountable for the crimes they committed against the protestors<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">7-A full investigation into all those involved in shooting and harassing protestors.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">International Federation of Iraqi Refugees-IFIR<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">10\/2\/2020<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Federation of Iraqi Refugees-IFIR understands that the Iraqi Government has threatened to dissolve Organisation of Women\u2019s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI). \u00a0The General secretariat of the Iraqi council of ministers have also filed a lawsuit against the president of OWFI.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-home","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.federationifir.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}