In a statement, the Central Committee of the Iraqi Alternative Communist Organization announced that Yenar Mihemed, President of the Iraqi Women’s Freedom Organization, was killed in a terrorist attack carried out outside her home in Baghdad.
The statement said: “Today [Monday] at 09:00, Yenar Mihemed, President of the Iraqi Women’s Freedom Organization, was shot by two individuals on a motorcycle while she was in front of her house. She was taken to the hospital with injuries but later lost her life.”
One of Iraq’s well-known women’s activists, Yenar Mihemed, was a voice for Yazidi women rescued from ISIS.
The Iraqi Women’s Freedom Organization also extended its condolences to freedom fighters, feminist movements, and human rights movements in Iraq and around the world.
In addition, the organization issued the following statement regarding her assassination: “We condemn these cowardly terrorist crimes and view them as a direct attack on women’s struggle, freedom, and equality. We call on the relevant authorities to immediately launch an investigation into the attack, identify the perpetrators and killers, and hold them accountable.”
Yenar Mihemed, who dedicated her life to defending the rights of women and survivors of violence and was one of the founders of a safe house for women, had never given up her struggle for women’s rights despite numerous threats.