‘Human rights and civil liberties champion’ Ratna Lachman has passed away

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The director of JUST West Yorkshire Ratna Lachman, hailed as a “human rights and civil liberties champion”, has passed away at the age of 60.

Tributes have poured in since Ratna died after a battle with cancer on Sunday.

Nadeem Murtuja, Chair of JUST Yorkshire said: “Ratna will be incredibly missed - she is, and always will be an irreplaceable force - championing the cause of human rights, civil liberties, feminism and mainly Muslims.

Ratna had a simple view, and that was that all of our freedoms were connected... whether those be religious freedom, feminism or choice - none of these were mutually exclusive. To stand up for one freedom, was equal to standing up for them all.”

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