Iraq’s security media cell called on demonstrators Saturday to keep away from the foreign embassies and security sites in the capital, threatening to take deterrent legal measures in case of violating these instructions.
The right to demonstration is guaranteed by the constitution and security apparatuses support peaceful demonstrators to express their rights to condemn offending the Holy Quran and Iraq’s flag, the cell said in a statement.
However, the cell asked the protestors to maintain security system, and private and public properties, it noted.
In addition, the cell called on the demonstrators to be “calm and wise”, and to cooperate with the security forces and reject violence.
On Friday, some demonstrators attacked the Swedish embassy in Baghdad and set fire to it, in retaliation for burning a copy of the Holy Quran in Sweden’s capital, upon permission from the Swedish authorities to an extremist.
Source: Kuwait News Agency