IRAQ-BAGHDAD-PROTEST

(220823) -- BAGHDAD, Aug. 23, 2022 (Xinhua) -- People rally for a protest in front of the gate of the Supreme Judicial Council in Baghdad, Iraq on Aug. 23, 2022. Hundreds of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's supporters on Tuesday began a sit-in protest in front of the gate of the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) in Baghdad, demanding a decision to dissolve the parliament. The latest sit-in came as the political disputes have escalated in the past weeks between al-Sadr and his rival Shiite parties in the Coordination Framework (CF), an umbrella group of Shiite parliamentary parties. (Xinhua/Khalil Dawood)