Yanar Mohammed’s assassination comes amid a number of killings as fellow campaigners warn women’s rights are going backwards Yanar Mohammed’s assassination comes amid a number of killings as fellow campaigners warn women’s rights are going backwards I n early March, two unidentified gunmen on motorcycles opened fire on Iraq’s most notable women’s rights activist, Yanar Mohammed, as she stood outside her home in the north of the capital, Baghdad. She had long been the target of death threats