IRAQ: PROTEST OUTSIDE AB GHREIB PRISON DEMANDING RELEASE OF PRISONERS HELD BY US FORCES

Record ID: 647397

  • Title: IRAQ: PROTEST OUTSIDE AB GHREIB PRISON DEMANDING RELEASE OF PRISONERS HELD BY US FORCES
  • Date: 14th February 2004
  • Summary: (W3) ABU GHREIB, IRAQ (FEBRUARY 14, 2004) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. WIDE/ PAN OF MUSLIM CROWD WITH BANNERS OUTSIDE LOCAL MOSQUE 0.06 2. VARIOUS OF CROWDS IN STREET (3 SHOTS) 0.21 3. WIDE OF BANNER IN ENGLISH READING "TODAY IS DEMONSTRATIONS, TOMORROW WILL BE EXPLOSIONS" 0.24 4. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) SHEIKH HAMED, MEMBER OF MUSLIM COALITION, SAYING: "Our demands are clear: we demand the release of all prisoners, young and old, and the withdrawal of the occupation forces from this country." 0.34 5. WIDE OF PROTESTERS 0.40 6. VARIOUS OF PROTESTORS WITH BANNERS CALLING FOR RELEASE OF PRISONERS (4 SHOTS) 1.00 7. WIDE OF PROTEST 1.06 (U3) ABU GHREIB, IRAQ (FEBRUARY 14, 2004) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 8. WIDE OF CHANTING FAMILY MEMBERS WITH BANNERS MARCHING TOWARDS ABU GHREIB'S PRISON, CHANTING "GOD IS GREATEST" (ALLAHU AKBAR) 1.13 9. SLV MEN IN CROWD PASSING ON PICKUP TRUCK 1.15 10. VARIOUS OF PEOPLE CHANTING "AMERICANS, AMERICANS, WHERE ARE HUMAN RIGHTS?" 1.29 11. PULLOUT OF MARCHERS PASSING PRISON 1.47 12. LV OF US SOLDERS OUTSIDE PRISON WATCHING MARCHERS 1.54 13. SCU SHEIKH ON MEGAPHONE CALLING, "ON ARABS AND MOSLEMS ALL OVER THE WORLD TO PAY ATTENTION TO THE ONGOING MASSACRE ALL OVER IRAQ" 2.07 14. WIDE OF DEMONSTRATORS STANDING BY BARBED WIRE FENCE 2.12 15. WIDE OF U.S. SOLDIERS GUARDING PRISON 2.17 16. VARIOUS OF DEMONSTRATION (3 SHOTS) 2.31 17. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN, SAYING: "Where are the Arab governments? Where are Arabs, where are Muslims, where are the compassionate? They (Americans) storm houses at night and detain women." 2.40 18. SMV CROWDS GATHERED OUTSIDE PRISON, BEHIND BARBED WIRE 2.44 19. SLV U.S. MILITARY VEHICLES ON ROAD OUTSIDE PRISON 2.53 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 29th February 2004 12:00
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  • Location: ABU GHREIB, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA4UIVFETN4T9L6KPUFT4HSB7UW
  • Story Text: Several thousand relatives and friends of imprisoned
    Iraqis held by U.S. forces have demonstrated for their
    release at a prison west of Baghdad.




    Thousands of people including family members and
    friends of imprisoned Iraqis held by U.S. forces
    demonstrated for their release near a prison west of
    Baghdad on Saturday (February 14).

    "Our demands are clear", a member of the Muslim
    coalition, Sheikh Hamed, said in Abu Ghreib. "We demand the
    release of all prisoners, young and old, and the withdrawal
    of the occupation forces from this country," he added.

    Protesters carried banners, some bearing Arabic
    slogans, and others with messages in English. One banner
    read: "Today is demonstrations, tomorrow will be
    explosions".

    "Where are the Arab governments? Where are Arabs,
    where are Muslims, where are the compassionate?" one angry
    woman outside Abu Ghreib's prison demanded to know as a
    crowd of several thousand gathered there on Saturday.

    "They (Americans) storm houses at night and detain
    women", the woman added.



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