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BBC NewsIRAN: Authorities hand back Shirin Ebadi's Nobel Peace Prize medalLos Angeles Times (blog)Iranian authorities have handed back the Nobel Peace Prize medal taken from the bank safety deposit box of laureate Shirin Ebadi, Norwegian officials ...The Iranian Revolution's fourth (and final) stageایرانیانNobel Prize briefsDallas Morning NewsIran returns peace prize to Nobel laureateRadio NetherlandsWashingtonTV -Norway Post -BBC Newsall 144...  

“I’m not going to give in and do as the government wants me to” - Shirin Ebadi, human rights lawyer and Nobel laureate  

STOCKHOLM — Scandinavian officials said Thursday that the Nobel Peace Prize medal and diploma confiscated by Iran from laureate Shirin Ebadi have been returned, but that her situation remains a "serious concern." The Islamic Republic confiscated ...  

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 ...  

Iranian human rights activist and 2003 Nobel Prize Winner Shirin Ebadi said the current Iranian regime has "no popular base." Shirin Ebadi - Human rights - Iran - Middle East - Nobel Prize  

Iranian human rights activist Shirin Ebadi poses at the 'Place de la Bastille' in Paris shortly after winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003. In Norway , where the peace prize is awarded, the government said the confiscation of the gold medal was a ...  

Iran's government has confiscated the Nobel Peace Prize medal of Shirin Ebadi, the human rights lawyer who is an outspoken critic of the regime.  

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?  

Norwegian officials express anger and dismay, saying Iranian officials had taken Ebadi's Nobel Peace Prize medla and other belongings from her safe-deposit box. Iranian authorities have taken human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi's Nobel Peace Prize medal and diploma from her safe-deposit box in Iran, Norwegian officials charged Thursday.  

... confiscated by Iran from laureate Shirin Ebadi have been returned, but that her situation remains a "serious concern." The Islamic Republic confiscated the Iranian human rights lawyer's 2003 Nobel medal ... and Norway's Jonas Gahr Stoere said in ...  

Less than a year after authorities stormed the offices of Iranian human-rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi, taking sensitive documents and her computer, unidentified authorities have now allegedly taken the Nobel Peace Prize medal and diploma from Ebadi's ...  

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 ...  

Times OnlineShirin Ebadi Nobel Peace Prize medal 'seized by Iran'BBC NewsIranian human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi says the Nobel Peace Prize medal she won in 2003 has been confiscated. The medal and accompanying diploma were ...Unwelcome Surprise for Colorado's GovernorFOXNewsIran denies confiscating activist's Nobel Peace PrizeCNNIran Denies It Confiscated Ebadi's Nobel MedalNew York TimesIndependent -Los Angeles Times -Deseret Newsall 805...  

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  

Reporting from Beirut - Iranian authorities have taken human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi's Nobel Peace Prize medal and diploma from her safe-deposit box in Iran, Norwegian officials charged Thursday. Officials in Norway, which administers the prize ...  

Less than a year after authorities stormed the offices of Iranian human-rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi, taking sensitive documents and her computer, unidentified authorities have now allegedly taken the Nobel Peace Prize medal and diploma from Ebadi's bank safety deposit box, said officials in Norway, which administers the prize. Outraged officials in Oslo say the incident is unprecedented and has sent shock waves through the Norwegian foreign...  

Officials in Norway say authorities in Iran have confiscated the medal of 2003 Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi. That's a first in the history of the prize. Borzou Daragahi of the Los Angeles Times talks with Steve Inskeep about the missing medal which was kept in a safe deposit box.  

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 ...  

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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 ...  

Norway said Thursday Iran had confiscated the Nobel Peace Prize of Shirin Ebadi, a human rights advocate who won the award in 2003, and that it had summoned Iran's envoy to Oslo to protest the matter."The medal and diploma have been removed from Dr Ebadi's bank box, together with other personal items," Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere said in a statement."Such an act leaves us feeling shock and disbelief," he added, stressing "this...  

TEHRAN: Iranian authorities have confiscated Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi's medal, the human rights lawyer said on Thursday, in a sign of the increasingly drastic steps Tehran is taking agains...  

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 ...  

An Iranian Nobel laureate will accept an award from a Government-financed human rights organisation in a move that is likely to ramp up the the Islamic Republic’s “propaganda” machine against the UK and further strain relations between the two countries.  

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.  

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

Utenriksminister Jonas Gahr Støre protesterer mot at iranske myndigheter har konfiskert Nobels fredspris fra Shirin Ebadi.  

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Scandinavian officials said Thursday that the Nobel Peace Prize medal and diploma confiscated by Iran from laureate Shirin Ebadi have been returned, but that her situation remains a "serious concern."  

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...  

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran summoned Norway's ambassador Friday and said the country had no right to criticize the Islamic Republic for confiscating Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi's medal. In Norway, where the peace prize is awarded, the government said ...  

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...  

"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 ...  

The Iranian authorities say they have given back the Nobel Peace Prize to human rights activist Shirin Ebadi. The lawyer was awarded the prize in 2003 for her work to defend the rights of women and children in Iran.   The government confiscated the prize last month, sparking a diplomatic row between Iran and Norway, where the prize is awarded.    

... their treatment of 2003 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi. The Islamic Republic confiscated her Nobel medal last month but later returned it. In a joint statement Thursday, Sweden's Carl Bildt and Norway's Jonas Gahr Stoere say Ebadi's ...  

MyFox PhoenixA Good Use for Obama's Nobel Peace PrizeWall Street JournalThe US president could give meaning to his medal by giving it to Iranian rights activist Shirin Ebadi. By EMANUELE OTTOLENGHI When, back in October, the Nobel Prize Committee announced that US President Barack Obama was their 2009 laureate, ...Obama to mention Afghan war in peace prize speechReutersA Peace Prize for a War PresidentCBS NewsEPA can act...Climate conference...  

TEHRAN, Iran — Norway has no right to criticize Iran for confiscating Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi's medal, Iran's foreign ministry said Friday. In Norway, where the peace prize is awarded, the government said the confiscation of the gold medal was a shocking first in the history of the 108-year-old prize. Ebadi said Thursday that authorities took the medal about three weeks ago from a safe-deposit box in Iran, claiming she owed...  

STOCKHOLM — Scandinavian officials said today that the Nobel Peace Prize medal and diploma confiscated by Iran from laureate Shirin Ebadi have been returned, but that her situation remains a “serious concern.” The Islamic Republic confiscated ...  

Controversy is growing over the reported seizure by Iranian authorities of human rights activist Shirin Ebadi's 2003 Nobel Peace Prize  

Iranian authorities confiscated the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize given to human rights activist Shirin Ebadi, Norway said Thursday.  

The symbolic crime against the human rights lawyer should not be allowed to pass unnoticed.  

Iranian authorities confiscated the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize given to human rights activist Shirin Ebadi, Norway said Thursday.  

Iranian Authorities Confiscated The 2003 Nobel Peace Prize Given To Human Rights Activist Shirin Ebadi, Norway Said Thursday.  

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. Iran's Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi addresses a speech ...  

ABC NewsINTERVIEW-Ebadi says Iran court suspends bank cash, pensionReutersLONDON, Nov 28 (Reuters) - An Iranian court has suspended the bank accounts and pension payments of Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi and her husband and ...Shirin Ebadi Nobel Peace Prize medal 'seized by Iran'BBC NewsIran denies Norway's allegation about Ebadi's Nobel PrizeTehran TimesIran denies confiscating activist's Nobel Peace PrizeCNNFOXNews -New York Times...  

Iran's foreign ministry denies officials confiscated the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the human rights lawyer, Shirin Ebadi.  

TEHRAN, Nov. 27 (UPI) -- Iranian officials denied allegations from Norway that human rights activist Shirin Ebadi's Nobel Peace Prize was confiscated.  

London, Dec.8 : Iranian Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi, the first Muslim woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for championing human rights and campaigning for democracy in Iran, will be presented with an award from a British Government-financed human rights organization.  

Iran's foreign ministry denies officials confiscated the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the human rights lawyer, Shirin Ebadi.  

Iranian authorities confiscate medal from 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi  

Norway is accusing Iran of a 'shocking first' in the history of the Nobel Peace Prize: The seizure of Shirin Ebadi's medal and certificate by the Iranian government. 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  

Iran today denied Norway's accusation that Tehran had confiscated the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to human rights campaigner Shirin Ebadi in 2003.  

Norway says Iran has confiscated medal from 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi  

(CNN) -- Iranian authorities confiscated the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize given to human rights activist Shirin Ebadi, Norway said Thursday. "The medal and the diploma have been removed from Dr. Ebadi's bank box, together with other personal items. Such an ...  

It's so wrong in so many ways. CNN:Iranian authorities confiscated the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize given to human rights activist Shirin Ebadi, Norway said Thursday."The medal and the diploma have been removed from Dr. Ebadi's bank box, together with other personal items. Such an act leaves us feeling shock and disbelief," Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Store said in a written statement.  

AFP - Iranian rights activist Shirin Ebadi on Friday insisted Tehran had confiscated her Nobel Peace Prize medal and rejected accusations about her tax affairs after her assets were frozen.  

Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Store reports that the Iranian authorities have seized the Nobel Peace Prize that was awarded to the Iranian human rights activist Shirin Ebadi in 2003.   The Norwegian foreign minister has delivered an official protest to Iran's political representative in Oslo. Ms Ebadi was forced to hand over the medal and Nobel Peace Prize certificate to the authorities. The Iranian government has also frozen her bank...  

The diplomatic row over Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi and her medal continues as Norway and Iran summon each others ambassadors. Tehran has not denied taking the human rights campaigner’s medal, but its foreign ministry implied Ebadi ...  

TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian authorities have confiscated Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi’s medal, her lawyer and Norway’s government said Thursday, in a sign of the increasingly drastic steps they are taking against any dissent.  

I ranian authorities have confiscated Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi's medal, her lawyer and Norway's government said Thursday, in a sign of the increasingly drastic steps they are taking against any dissent. In Norway, where the peace prize is ...  

Iran is denying Norway's claim that the Islamic republic confiscated the Nobel Peace Prize of human rights activist Shirin Ebadi, and indicated the issue involved tax evasion.  

Iranian authorities have confiscated Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi's medal, the human rights lawyer said.  

Whether it was done out of jealousy of Barack Obama or not, Iran has stepped into the realm of the ridiculous as an Iranian human rights lawyer reported that her Nobel Peace Prize, awarded to her in 2003, has been confiscated by Iranian authorities.  —JCL The BBC: Iranian human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi says the Nobel Peace Prize medal she won in 2003 has been confiscated. The medal and accompanying diploma were taken from a bank box in...  

Iranian authorities have confiscated Nobel peace prize winner Shirin Ebadi's medal, her lawyer and Norway's government say.  

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.  

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has summoned Norway's ambassador over accusations made by Oslo that Iranian authorities had confiscated the Nobel Peace Prize medal awarded to human rights campaigner Shirin Ebadi in 2003. "We are surprised to see Norwegian ...  

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 ...  

Oslo - Norway has protested strongly against reports that Iranian authorities have confiscated the medal awarded to 2003 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, the foreign ministry said Thursday. "This is the first time a Nobel Peace Prize has been ...  

After Norway accused the Tehran government of confiscating the medal of Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi, Iran urges Oslo officials to 'get their facts straight before taking sides'. Ebadi, an Iranian lawyer, had earlier claimed that authorities acting on orders from Tehran's Revolutionary Court, have taken away her peace prize medal and her Legion of Honor. She claimed the authorities also seized a ring awarded to her by a German...  

Oslo - Norway has protested strongly against reports that Iranian authorities have confiscated the medal awarded to 2003 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, the foreign ministry said Thursday. This is the first time a Nobel Peace Prize has been ...  

Iran denied confiscating the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to human rights campaigner Shirin Ebadi in 2003.  

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.  

AFP - Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi on Friday accused the Islamic republic of acting illegally by freezing her assets and questioned the timing of its demand she pay substantial back taxes.  

Norway said Thursday Iran had confiscated the Nobel Peace Prize of Shirin Ebadi, a human rights advocate who won the award in 2003, and that it had summoned Iran's envoy to Oslo to protest the matter. - The medal and diploma have been removed from Dr ...  

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.  

[JURIST] The Iranian government was accused Thursday of confiscating the Nobel Peace Prize medal awarded to human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi [Nobel profile; JURIST news archive]. The government seized the medal from Ebadi's safety deposit box in Tehran and froze her bank accounts three weeks ago, claiming that Ebadi owes $400,000 in taxes for the $1.3 million she was awarded by the Norwegian  

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.  

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...  

The Iranian government has seized the Nobel Peace Prize given human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi, Norwegian officials said Thursday. Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Store said the confiscation is a first in the history of the Peace Prize, CNN ...  

OSLO (Reuters) – Norway accused Tehran yesterday of confiscating the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to human rights campaigner Shirin Ebadi in 2003 and said freedom of expression was under “great pressure” in Iran. The Foreign Ministry said Ebadi ...  

Associated Press 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.  

The Iranian government has seized the Nobel Peace Prize given human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi, Norwegian officials said Thursday. Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Store said the confiscation is a first in the history of the Peace Prize, CNN ...  

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 ...  

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 ...  

TEHRAN - Iran has refuted Norwegian claims that it had unlawfully confiscated Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi’s medal and frozen her bank account. Terming the Norwegian government’s protest as interference in its internal affairs, Tehran ...  

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 ...  

Getty Images) Iran on Friday denied Norway's accusation that it had confiscated the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to human rights campaigner Shirin Ebadi in 2003. "We are surprised to see Norwegian authorities taking a tendentious stance and in a hasty ...  

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.  

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 ...  

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.  

THE LA TIMES HAS A DISTURBING REPORT: According to Alexandra Sandels in Beirut,  less than a year after authorities stormed the offices of Iranian human-rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi, taking sensitive documents and her computer, unidentified authorities have now allegedly taken the Nobel Peace Prize medal and diploma from Ebadi's bank safety deposit box, said officials in Norway, which administers the prize.Outraged officials in Oslo say the...  

Iran’s hardline regime has confiscated the Nobel peace medal and diploma of Shirin Ebadi, the human rights lawyer who is one of its most potent and outspoken critics. Her bank account has also been frozen on the pretext that she owes $410,000 in tax.$  

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.  

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. In Norway, where the peace ...  

| 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.  

Iran has frozen the bank accounts of Iranian Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi and confiscated her Peace Prize medal.  

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.  

OSLO: Iranian authorities have confiscated Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi’s medal, the Norwegian government said on Thursday, accusing Iran of a shocking first in the history of the prize. ...  

Iran has denied confiscating the Nobel prize of human rights campaigner Shirin Ebadi and protested against Norway for making the allegation, a report says.  

By Nasser Karimi and Ian MacDougall, The Associated Press 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 authorities have confiscated Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi’s medal, her lawyer and Norway’s government said Thursday.  

Iranian authorities have confiscated Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi's medal, the human-rights lawyer said yesterday, in a sign of the increasingly drastic steps Tehran is taking against any dissent.  

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

Iranian authorities have confiscated Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi’s medal, her lawyer and Norway’s government said today, in a sign of the increasingly drastic steps Tehran is taking against any dissent. In Norway, where the peace prize is awarded, the government said the confiscation was a shocking first in the history of the 108-year-old prize.  

OSLO, Norway - Iranian authorities have confiscated Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi's medal, the Norwegian government said yesterday, accusing Iran of a shocking first in the history of the prize. Norwegian authorities were told that Ebadi's medal ...  

Iran denies and claims Shirin Ebadi attempted to evade paying taxes on her Nobel prize. However, it seems that Iranian authorities also removed the Nobel medal from her bank box, arrested her husband earlier this year and froze her bank account.  

Shirin Ebadi and her colleagues say the government is demanding $400,000 in back taxes on her $1.3 million prize. But they say such prize money is not taxed under Iranian law.  

Alas, not in the way you might hope. Norway is reporting that the Iranian government has seized a Nobel Prize awarded to human rights activist Shirin Ebadi. 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 said Norwegian authorities have...  

(By Nasser Karimi and Ian MacDougall, Associated Press) 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 government said the confiscation of the gold medal was a shocking first in the history of the 108-year-old prize.  

OSLO (Nov. 26) -- 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 ...  

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran summoned Norway's ambassador Friday and said the country had no right to criticize the Islamic Republic for confiscating Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi's medal. In Norway, where the peace prize is awarded, the government ...  

Shirin Ebadi and her colleagues say the government is demanding $400000 in back taxes on her $1.3 million prize. But they say such prize money is not taxed under Iranian law. VOA News 27 November 2009 Iran has frozen the bank accounts ...  

TEHRAN–Iran's foreign ministry says Norway has no right to criticize Iran for confiscating Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi's medal. Ebadi said Thursday that authorities took the medal about three weeks ago from a safe-deposit box in Iran, saying ...  

AFP - 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.  

Iran has "illegally" frozen bank accounts belonging to Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi and confiscated her medal, in a bid to step up pressure on the rights advocate and critic of the Islamic regime, her colleagues said on Friday. Norway said on Thursday ...  

In 2003 Dr [Shirin]Ebadi became the first Iranian and first Muslim woman to win the peace prize, which was awarded for her campaign for democracy and human rights. She was abroad during President Ahmadinejad’s disputed re-election in June and has spent the past five months travelling the world to draw attention to the regime’s alleged electoral fraud and suppression of the opposition. “I am effectively in exile,” she said recently. Oslo's...  

Iranian human rights activist and lawyer Shirin Ebadi called for Iranian authorities to free U.S. citizens accused of espionage, Iranian news agency IRNA reported.  

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...  

STOCKHOLM (AP) — The foreign ministers of Sweden and Norway have criticized Iranian authorities for their treatment of 2003 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi. The Islamic Republic confiscated her Nobel medal last month but later returned it ...  

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.  

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.  

OSLO, Norway - 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 ...  

OSLO, Norway - 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 ...  

OSLO, Norway - 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.  

By NASSER KARIMI and IAN MacDOUGALL Associated Press Writers TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iranian authorities have confiscated Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadis 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 government said the confiscation of the gold medal was a shocking first in the history of the 108-year-old prize...  

Dharamsala : Three Nobel Peace laureates participated in a peace youth conference organised in honor of Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama in Dharamsala. Three Nobel peace laureates, Shirin Ebadi from Iran, Mairead Corrigan Maguire from Northern Ireland and Jody Williams of United States along with the people of Tibet were present to grace the occasion at Upper Tibetan Children Village school auditorium. For 50 years, the 14th Tibetan...  

Iranian authorities have confiscated Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi's medal, the human rights lawyer says, in a sign of the increasingly drastic steps Tehran is taking against any dissent.  

I think sometimes it is difficult to believe - just how far gone a government has become? Why would she leave those items there. TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iranian authorities have confiscated Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi's medal, her lawyer and Norway's government said Thursday, in a sign of the increasingly drastic steps they are taking against any dissent.In Norway, where the peace prize is awarded, the government said the confiscation was a...  

Iranian authorities have confiscated Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadis medal, the human rights lawyer said Thursday, in a sign of the increasingly drastic steps Tehran is taking against dissent.