Overview
- Unidentified gunmen on a motorcycle shot Yanar Mohammed outside her home in northern Baghdad on 2 March, and she died in hospital from her wounds.
- Her organisation, the Organisation for Women’s Freedom in Iraq, confirmed her death and pledged to keep its network of safe houses operating.
- No group has claimed responsibility for the killing.
- Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al‑Sudani ordered an investigation, as Amnesty International called for a thorough, independent and impartial probe that brings perpetrators to justice.
- Mohammed, 66, co‑founded OWFI and was a leading critic of recent family‑law changes rooted in Shia jurisprudence that rights advocates say would roll back protections for women.