For two years, Iraq’s mass protest movement has been plagued by unsolved murders. As October’s election nears, they are making common cause with those who previously opposed them.
Ehab was killed in his car. Abbas was shot on his way to a funeral. Zahra faces constant death threats. In Iraq, young activists are getting hunted down, one by one.
Though the battle to remove Trump from office is over, the war on truth is still being waged on other fronts, with Germany the hub of QAnon fantasists outside the Anglosphere.