crackdown and demonstrations the protests erupted over unemployment and poor public services and ron kahn has more now on the day's events from baghdad. tough words directed at the iraqi government the iraqi observatory for human rights says iraq has arrested hundreds of protesters in a bid to crack down on demonstrations in the south. there is a wide scale security company and search of the activists who took part in the demonstrations in baghdad and the other governorates well human rights watch says it's uncovered evidence of iraq's national security service has been holding detainees from the war against eisel something it previously denied human rights watch discovered four hundred twenty seven detainees in a facility in mosul run by the national security service the security service then issued contradictory statements first saying it didn't hold detainees and then insisting that it had the rights to do so to which human rights watch said baghdad needs to publicly clarify which will floridians have the right to hold and interrogate detainees human rights organizations here say that