Kurdistan lost a great woman activist of free speech

 Kurdistan lost a great woman activist of free speech. Mahabad Qaradaghi died at the age of 54.
woman journalist, poet, researchers, and activist who has contributed throughout her life to gender equality programs and women's rights.

Mahabad Qaradaghi (1966-2020) was a Kurdish writer, poet and translator. She was born in Kifri, a town near Kirkuk. Her first collections of poems were published in 1980, and were imprisoned by the Ba'athist regime from 1980 to 1981. In 1993, she immigrated to Sweden. She was the adviser of Prime Minister in Women Issues, in the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), in Arbil, Iraqi Kurdistan.