Hundreds of Iraqis on Tuesday gathered on the streets to commemorate the 2019 October public protests and express refusal of Iraq’s prime minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani. On 1 October 2019, thousands of Iraqis held large demonstrations in Baghdad, calling for an end to corruption among Iraq’s ruling elites and Iran’s hegemony through its affiliated political parties and militias. The demonstrations entered a new vital stage by 25 October of the same year, after large crowds from Iraq’s southern provinces joined the protest movement. Mohammed Afluk, an Iraqi activist, who fled to the Iraqi Kur…