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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Hala Abdullah

So many Iraqi women have been killed for having a voice. Tomorrow, it could be one of us

A middle-aged Arab woman speaking into a microphone at a protest with women in hijabs looking on
Yanar Mohammed, right, at a protest in Baghdad in 2005, denouncing the role of Islamism in the new Iraqi constitution. She argued that the emphasis on sharia law would revoke women’s rights. Photograph: Samir Mizban/AP

I remember the exact moment my colleague said: “Yanar has been assassinated.”

Our editor-in-chief immediately replied: “Is this confirmed?”

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