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TEHRAN (AFP) -- Iranian Nobel winner Shirin Ebadi said Tuesday intelligence agents have arrested her sister as the regime stepped up its crackdown on dissent, a statement carried on an opposition website said. "My sister Dr Nooshin Ebadi was arrested at 9 pm (1630 GMT) on December 28 by four intelligence agents at her home and sent to prison," Ebadi said in a statement carried by the Rahesabz website. "I am not aware of the place of her detention or the reason for her arrest," she said... Read Full Story
Iranian Nobel peace prizewinner Shirin Ebadi called Tuesday for the release of five Britons seized in Gulf waters, saying they were arrested without warning. "I believe the Iranian government has arrested them without warnings. They must be released as soon as possible," she told reporters in Seoul. The five were sailing from Bahrain to the start of a race in Dubai when their yacht was stopped last Wednesday in the Gulf, the British Foreign Office said. The yacht may have been drifted into... Read Full Story
Iran has confiscated human right activist Shirin Ebadi's Nobel Peace Prize medal and frozen her bank accounts to pressure the critic of the Islamic regime, her colleagues told AFP on Friday. Iranian authorities seized the medal and diploma that Ebadi kept in a bank box, drawing condemnation from Norway, which awarded the prize in 2003. "Her prize money was deposited in a bank account and it was used to help prisoners of conscience and their families," a founding member of Ebadi's human... Read Full Story
The United States on Friday said Iran's alleged seizure of human rights activist Shrin Ebadi's bank accounts and Nobel prize medal was "deeply reprehensible," and called on Iran to end its harassment of the lawyer. "We find these reports deeply reprehensible," State Department spokesman Darby Garrett Holladay said in a statement. "This is just one more example of the Iranian leadership's lack of basic respect for human rights," he added. "We urge the Iranian authorities to end their... Read Full Story
Iranian rights activist Shirin Ebadi has vowed not to cave in to pressure from the Islamic republic despite the seizure of her bank accounts and Nobel medal, a report said on Friday. "Iranian officials want to put pressure on me in this way but it is not working," Ebadi said, according to the website of Radio Farda, a Farsi-language service that broadcasts from Europe to Iran. "If the Islamic republic is angry about the publication of human rights reports, they would do better by improving... Read Full Story
Norway's Foreign Ministry says it has lodged a formal complaint with Iran after authorities there confiscated human rights activist Shirin Ebadi's Nobel Peace Prize medal. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Ragnhild Imerslund said Thursday that someone had informed Norwegian authorities that the medal was seized "within the last week or so" along with Ebadi's personal effects from a safe-deposit box in Iran. She wouldn't name the source of the information. Ebadi won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003... Read Full Story
Iran has "illegally" frozen bank accounts belonging to Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi, in a bid to step up pressure on the rights advocate and critic of the Islamic regime, a colleague told AFP on Friday. Iranian authorities have also confiscated the Nobel medal and diploma that Ebadi kept in a bank box, drawing condemnation from Norway which awarded the peace prize to the Iranian campaigner in 2003. "Her prize money was deposited in a bank account and it was used to help prisoners of... Read Full Story
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Iranian Nobel winner Shirin Ebadi said on Tuesday intelligence agents have arrested her sister as the regime stepped up its crackdown on dissent, a statement carried on an opposition website said.
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Iranian Nobel Laureate and human rights activist Shirin Ebadi on Monday implored Muslim women to assume a wider role in their home countries through education and active participation in politics. "Women must fulfill their duty to society and not stay at home," she told participants in the Festival of Thinkers forum in Abu Dhabi. Ebadi said that young girls tend to become housewives after they graduate, which means that "their education is wasted." "Women should be educated... Education is... Read Full Story
