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Debate is raging in Iraq after seven young anti-corruption activists were taken from their homes by armed men early on Monday morning.
According to reports circulated online, the students and activists were taken by armed men from the house they shared in the Al-Sa'adoon neighborhood of central Baghdad. The kidnapping took place at 1.30am on Monday, and eyewitnesses reported that the young men were loaded into 4x4s with blacked-out windows.
The victims have been named as Abdullah Latif Faraj, Hamza Younis, Ahmed Na'im Ruwayi, Haidar Nashi Hassan, Samer Amer Musa, Zaid Yahya and Ali Hussein Shnaoua.
The kidnapped men were described in a statement by the Iraqi Communist party, shared by leader Jassim Alhelfi, as "members of the civil protest movement since its launch...