[Telegraph-UK] Kate Connolly - Seyran Ates, 43, a women's rights advocate who was named Germany's woman of the year in 2005, has gone underground after receiving death threats for defending Muslim women who have been forced into marriage. The prominent Berlin lawyer had repeatedly spoken out against forced marriage, headscarves, and honor killings. Ates said police had refused to protect her despite threats against her life, including a shooting incident in which a colleague was killed and she was seriously injured. ()
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