Iraqis back on the streets to protest government policies

The anti-government demonstrations continue across the country as Sunnis protest against the Shia-led government's treatment.

Sunni Muslims across Iraq took to the streets again on Friday to protest what they see as the Shia-led government's marginalization of them [2].

Ten of thousands rallied in Fallujah, Ramadi and the Sunni areas of Baghdad following Friday prayers in the afternoon.

The protests mark a continued trend by the minority community [3] who claim that the government is using new anti-terror laws, instigated in December last year, to unfairly target them.

Iraq has faced increasing sectarian divides in recent months [4] both across the Sunni/Shia lines and between the central Baghdad government and the Northern Kurdish regional authority.

In Ramadi, a city 110km West of the capital, protestors gathered outside the mosque, where cleric Saad al-Fayadh shouted: "Where is the partnership you are talking about? Sunnis are only seeing genocide and marginalization [5]."