Iraq’s Sadrists protest to change election panel

BAGHDAD, IRAQ - FEBRUARY 11: Thousands of supporters of firebrand Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr stage fresh protests at Tahrir square in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on February 11, 2017 to demand the dissolution of the country’s electoral commission. Security forces opened fire to disperse protesters attempting to march on Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone, which houses government institutions and foreign embassies, according to eyewitnesses. Al-Sadr has called for protests with a view to changing the election panel, who says its members were not suited to hold fair elections in Iraq. (Footage by Visam Ziyad Muhammet/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)