After Iraq’s Day of Rage, a Crackdown on Intellectuals

by E Wayne Ross on February 28, 2011

Washington Post: After Iraq’s Day of Rage, a Crackdown on Intellectuals

Iraqi security forces detained about 300 people, including prominent journalists, artists and lawyers who took part in nationwide demonstrations Friday, in what some of them described as an operation to intimidate Baghdad intellectuals who hold sway over popular opinion.