{"id":93340,"date":"2026-05-01T19:21:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T19:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/93340\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T19:21:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T19:21:17","slug":"iraqs-babil-protests-erupt-after-activist-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/93340\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq\u2019s Babil protests erupt after activist shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-05-01T16:51:03+00:00<\/p>\n<p>                                    font<\/p>\n<p>                                            Enable Reading Mode<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        A-<br \/>\n                                        A<br \/>\n                                        A+\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>Shafaq News- BabilDozens of protesters gathered outside the Babil provincial headquarters in central Hilla on Friday, condemning the attempted assassination of civil activist Dirgham Majid.<\/p>\n<p>Demonstrators called for the identification of those responsible, insisting they would not back down under any circumstances until the findings of the investigative committee are made public.<\/p>\n<p>Majid was shot on April 21 in al-Hamza al-Gharbi district, south of the province, while inside a grocery store. Witnesses reported that two masked assailants on a motorcycle opened fire, striking him in the leg before fleeing to an unknown location. The activist has accused Asaib Ahl al-Haq of carrying out the attack, urging Governor Ali Turki, who is affiliated with the group, to reveal those responsible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-05-01T16:51:03+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- BabilDozens of protesters gathered outside the Babil provincial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[32918,4563,152,94,32917,2916,9922],"class_list":{"0":"post-93340","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iraq","8":"tag-activist","9":"tag-babil","10":"tag-breaking","11":"tag-iraq","12":"tag-iraqs-babil-protests-erupt-after-activist-shooting","13":"tag-protest","14":"tag-shooting"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116500947532893404","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}