In the 1990s, Samia Sarwar Mohmand, a young Pathan girl who wanted to marry of her own free will was shot dead in the office of Pakistan's most relentless women's rights campaigner Asma Jehangir.

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She confirmed to the police that she came to this conclusion of her own free will, and was aware that she, like all complainants of sexual offences, was entitled to anonymity.

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He described her as a capable, manipulative and intelligent woman who acted of her own free will.

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She will get there courtesy of the Bureau of Prisons who will give her a free ride, shackled and hand-cuffed again, on Con-Air.

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To her theory of the locus of free will?

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On the other hand, the process of really being free to re-invent her high school identity will require a new kind of focus.

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Her work will focus on a high throughput platform for label-free detection of biochemical pathways involved in the differentiation of stem cells.

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What frightens her is the possibility that we will become so immobilised by dreams and shadows, so free of pain, mentally standardised by the cyber-world that is our principal habitat and rendered oblivious by chemicals, that we will have lost the ability to choose.

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