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On the Assassination of Feminist Leader Yanar Mohammed

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Yanar Mohammed sits and talks with a group of young Iraqi children at a local shelter.

On the Assassination of Feminist Leader Yanar Mohammed

Yanar Mohammed – one of the most formidable feminist leaders of her generation – was assassinated in her home in Baghdad in what appears to have been a targeted militia attack.

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