Iraq Update #52 - Demonstrations against Maliki after Issawi bodyguard Arrest
December 27, 2012 - Stephen Wicken![](https://understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumb-wide/public/iraq_update_8_3_0_32_0.jpg?itok=owXbT0SP)
Demonstrations, sit-ins, and acts of civil disobedience have been ongoing in Ramadi and Fallujah in Anbar province and in Samarra in Salah al-Din since December 23 in protest of Maliki’s arrest of bodyguards assigned to Finance Minister Rafi al-Issawi.