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Nobel winner seeks U.N. human rights envoy for Iran
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Iranian Nobel Peace Prize recipient Shirin Ebadi called on U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon on Thursday to appoint a personal envoy to investigate human rights abuses in Iran. Iran's Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin ...  
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Secretary-General discusses situation in Iran with Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has voiced his concern regarding the situation in Iran and his dismay over the post-election violence, particularly the use of force against civilians, in his talks with Iranian human rights activist and Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi.  
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Shirin Ebadi Backs Obama - The Washington Independent.com
At the bottom of Glenn Kessler’s piece in The Washington Post on President Obama’s Iran strategy is this telling quote: Shirin Ebadi, an Iranian human rights activist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003, said she has no complaints about Obama ...  
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Iranian Nobel Peace Prize-Winner Ebadi Calls For New Elections
Shirin Ebadi was the first woman to serve as a judge in Iran, 1969. But after the Islamic Revolution in February 1979, it was believed that Islam forbids women to serve as judges, and she and other female judges were dismissed and given clerical duties. Nobel Prize.orgIranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi has told RFE/RL that the Iranian authorities should hold a new election and allow monitoring by international observers. She also...  
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Shirin Ebadi for President
If current unrest inside of Iran is to in fact transform from merely a call for fair elections to a call for a new secular revolution, then we as Iranians will have get organized quickly and find a true inspirational figure among us. ... more  
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Iran raids, closes office, Nobel winner says
TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Nobel Peace Prize laureate and human rights campaigner Shirin Ebadi was briefly taken into custody Sunday as Iranian authorities raided and indefinitely shut down two of her offices in Tehran, she told CNN. Shirin Ebadi won the ...  
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Iran's Ebadi says election may help human rights
Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi says Iran's human-rights situation has worsened under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad but that moderate rivals in this month's election offer hope for improvement. Rights groups and Western diplomats say the Islamic Republic has stepped up a crackdown on dissenting voices since Ahmadinejad.  
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Iranian Nobel laureate's aide charged

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Iran's judiciary has charged an aide to Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi with "propagating" against the nation's Islamic system, according to the official IRNA news agency. "Narges Mohammadi has been charged with propagating against the Islamic Republic of Iran's system," the agency quoted Iranian judiciary spokesman Ali Reza Jamshidi as saying. Jamshidi confirmed reports that Mohammadi has been banned from travelling and said she is due to appear in court, though he did not say when. On May 10 Ebadi's rights group, the Human Rights Defenders Centre said on its website, that Mohammadi was barred from taking a trip to Guatemala to speak at a ... Read Full Story

Iranian Gaza Protest Targets Wrong Person

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Iranian protesters have targeted Ebadi, even after her organization has condemned Israel’s overwhelming aggression against Gaza. She is accused of being soft on Israel. Right now, as Muslim sympathies for Palestinians are growing, Arab nations are increasingly nervous about keeping their hands out of the bloodbath. Weakened American influence on these nations could tip the balance from passive to aggressive. Ebadi is an example of misdirected anger based on a presumption. Because she represents Human Rights, she is considered suspect. Iran’s Government is being eerily quiet about Gaza righht now. Nobel laureate’s Tehran home attacked Protesters chanted, “Ebadi supports Israel’s murders,” Ebadi’s center says ... Read Full Story

Shirin Ebadi Braves More Persecution

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As Gaza burns, it becomes all too easy to overlook the various human rights abuses still unfolding around the region. Once such case is that of the Nobel Peace Prize winner, Iranian lawyer, human rights activist and founder of Children’s Rights Support Association in Iran, Shirin Ebadi . Last week protesters spray-painted slogans on Ebadi’s home, chanted death threats and shouted accusations that she supports Israel’s Gaza offensive. The demonstration was the third time in 11 days that Iranian authorities or hardline groups had targeted the human rights lawyer. In December police raided her private law office seizing computers and her clients’ confidential documents, ... Read Full Story

Nobel Peace Laureate Will Defend Baha'is of Iran

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Shirin Ebadi , the Iranian (Muslim) Nobel peace laureate announced that she will defend the seven detained Baha'i leaders who have just been wrongly accused of "setting up an illegal organization in Iran that took orders from Israel and others to undermine the Islamic system." In an article published in Agence France Presse (AFP) , Ms. Ebadi announced: "In court I will defend the Bahais. Two colleagues of mine and I have accepted their case, although they were not able to see their families." In retaliation, harsh accusations were made by Iranian state media against her daughter. The following news release in AFP reports ... Read Full Story

More Fraudulent Claims & Threats Against Nobel Peace Prize Winner

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An article in the Baha'i World News Service exposes the recent propaganda and "fraudulent claims" in the Iranian news media intended to stir up "irrational fears and prejudices" among the masses towards anyone who attempts to defend the rights of the Baha'is. Furthermore, in today's AsiaNews.it there was a report on additional accusations and threats in the Iranian media directed at Mrs. Ebadi. The full text of the BWNS article is posted below: Iranian media attacks on Baha'is and Nobel Prize Winner Shirin Ebadi seek to stir “irrational fears and prejudices” 12 August 2008 NEW YORK — Fraudulent claims in the Iranian news media ... Read Full Story
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