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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 ...  

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  

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 ...  

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.  

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.    

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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 ...  

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...  

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...