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A classical result of Schreier (see [26]) states that nontrivial finitely generated normal subgroups of free groups are of finite index, that is, free groups can only quotient to finite groups with finitely generated kernel.In this note we extend this result to the class of right-angled Artin groups (RAAGs). More precisely, we prove that the quotient of a RAAG by a finitely generated (full) normal subgroup is abelian-by-finite and finite-by-abelian.As Schreier's result extends to nontrivial free products of groups, we further show that our result extends to graph products of groups.As a corollary, we deduce, among others, that finitely generated normal subgroups of RAAGs have decidable word, conjugacy and membership problems and that they are hereditarily conjugacy separable.Corollary 2.6. Let G be a RAAG and let N ă G be a finitely generated full normal subgroup of G. Then G{N is virtually abelian.If one does not require the subgroup N to be full, we obtain the following result:
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