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| − | The Islamic leadership in Iraq followed civil methods in its religious, cultural and political movement in Iraq after the 1920 revolution against the British occupation. However after the second Ba'ath coup in 1968 the Islamic movement as whole faced all kind of repression in the late 1960's and 1970's. Thousands of religious scholars and Islamic activists have been arrested and tortured. Hundreds of them have been killed while being torture or executed.
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| − | The Ba'ath regime started its reign with a brutal confrontation with the religious leadership of Grand Ayatollah Sayed Muhsin Al Hakim who was put under house arrest. His son Sayed Mahdi Al Hakim was accused of being a traitor and fled the country and was assassinated later in Sudan in 1988.
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| − | In 1974 five religious leaders were executed. In 1977 there was a popular uprising when the regime prevented the people from visiting the Shrine of Imam Husain in the holy city of Karbala. Sayed Mohamad Baqir Al the leader of SCIRI and the son of Grand Ayatollah Sayed Muhsin Al Hakim was arrested, tortured and sentenced to life imprisonment without a trial.
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| − | [http://www.sciri.btinternet.co.uk/English/About_Us/Badr/badr.html read more]
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