Shirin Ebadi

Tehran's campaign to silence Iran's opposition saw officials confiscate Shirin Ebadi's Nobel Peace Prize medal from asafety deposit box and freeze her bank account. What's the government so scared of?  

TEHRAN, Iran - Iranian authorities have confiscated Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi's medal, the human rights lawyer said Thursday, in a sign of the increasingly drastic steps Tehran is taking against any dissent. In Norway, where the peace prize ...  

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"Thirty years have passed and we have yet to arrive at freedom." ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images I WAS SITTING IN THE COURTHOUSE [after the Islamic Revolution] when an agent from the justice department came and gave me a letter [saying] I was no longer ...  

Iranian authorities have confiscated Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi's medal, the human rights lawyer said Thursday, in a sign of the increasingly drastic steps Tehran is taking against any dissent. In Norway, where the peace prize is awarded, the ...  

The spokesman for Iran's foreign ministry, Ramin Mehmanparast, urged Norway to keep quiet about the fate of Shirin Ebadi's estate, including a Nobel Peace Prize medal that authorities allegedly swiped from her safe deposit box. "We are surprised that ...  

Norway has reacted strongly to the news that the Iranian authorities have confiscated the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Shirin Ebadi in 2003. The Iranian Chargé d’affaires Has been summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “This is the first ...  

Shirin Ebadi, an Iranian lawyer who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003 for significant and pioneering efforts for democracy and human rights, has been stripped of her prize by Iranian government. Ebadi was the first Muslim woman and a first Iranian to ever claim the Prize....read more  

Iranian authorities confiscate medal from 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iranian authorities have confiscated Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi’s medal, the human rights lawyer said Thursday, in a sign of the increasingly drastic steps Tehran is taking against any dissent.  

Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi on Tuesday accused the Islamic republic of pressuring her family to try to stop her overseas campaign against the regime.She said her husband had been banned from leaving the country and all his bank accounts had been closed, even though he has nothing to do with politics."He is just an engineer who has nothing to do with my activities," Ebadi told reporters in the South Korean capital.  

Maybe I’m taking this too personally, but that’s what blogs are for, right? But the revolting action by the fascist Iranian thugocracy in breaking into Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi’s safe deposit box in Tehran and stealing her Nobel prize symbolizes all that is petty, ugly, sinister and repulsive about the Iranian dictatorship. It’s not just a violation of her person; it’s a violation of all who believe in human rights. Shirin Ebadi...  

OSLO — Iranian authorities have confiscated Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi's medal, the Norwegian government said Thursday, accusing Iran of a shocking first in the history of the prize. Norwegian authorities were told that Ebadi's medal was seized "within the last week or so" from a safe-deposit box in Iran along with personal effects including the diploma awarded with the medal, the Foreign Ministry said. Spokeswoman Ragnhild Imerslund...  

On Friday, Iran denied Norway’s accusation that it had confiscated the Nobel Peace Prize awarded in 2003 to Shirin Ebadi—a human rights lawyer who spoke at Barnard in April 2008—and froze her bank accounts. Ebadi was the first Iranian Nobel ...  

Iranian authorities have confiscated Nobel Peace laureate and human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi's medal -- a first in the history of the 108-year-old prize. Ebadi, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003 for her efforts in promoting democracy, has long faced harassment from Iranian authorities for her activities.  

Background: Human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi said Thursday that Iran seized her 2003 Nobel Peace Prize medal about three weeks ago from a safe-deposit box, claiming she owed taxes on the $1.3 million that came with the prize. Ebadi says that such ...