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Thousands of protesters gathered in central Tahrir square in Baghdad on Monday.
Iraqi authorities have declared a ban on night traffic in the Baghdad capital on the fourth day of a new wave of anti-government protests.
Movement of vehicles and pedestrians is prohibited between 00: 00 and 06: 00 (21: 00-03: 00 GMT) until further notice.
Five protesters were reportedly killed in Baghdad on Monday.
But thousands of protesters, including many students, vowed to ignore the curfew and continue the protests in the city.
According to Reuters, “We will stay here until the last day, even if there are thousands of martyrs.
More than 220 people have died all over the country since October 1, when people started demanding more jobs, ending corruption and better public services.
Prime Minister Adele Abdul Mahdi has promised to announce reforms. But protesters decided to sweep the government.
Organizers said they were suspended for two weeks to give Iraqi leaders time to meet their demands, and more than 74 people were killed and 3,500 wounded in the weekend as protests resumed in Baghdad and elsewhere.
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On Monday, protesters continued to occupy Baghdad's central Tahrir Square, and security forces fired tear gas to prevent attempts to cross the bridge to a fortified green zone with government offices and foreign embassies.
Despite warnings from Prime Minister Abdul-Madi's "residence", elsewhere in the city, tear gas was said to have been used to harass classes for schools and college students to participate in protests.
Curfew can mean that security forces can try to disperse the crowd at Tahrir Square all night. But one protester told Reuters news agency: "We will be here until the last day, even if there are thousands of martyrs."
The Secretary of State, meanwhile, told the UN special representative Henis-Place Hart at the Facebook post that he had received "strict instructions to protect the right to peaceful protest" to security staff.
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Security forces fired tear gas to prevent protesters from moving in the green zone.
Prime Minister Abdul Mahdi also spoke of "urgent decisions and actions" to meet the demands of the protesters.
After the first protest, the prime minister promised to reorganize the cabinet and reduce the salaries of senior officials. He also said he would allocate $ 660 million to help the unemployed, install training programs for young people and build 100,000 homes in poor areas.
In addition, on Monday, the MP voted to dissolve all local and local councils outside the Kurdish region, withdraw "all privileges" granted to the president, prime minister and parliamentary chairman and form a constitutional amendment committee.
But the action was dismissed as "fake" by Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr, who wanted to control the biggest block in Congress and want an early election.