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Iran's Nobel Peace Prize Winner summoned by hardline judiciary

Iran's Nobel Peace Prize Winner summoned by hardline judiciary

Holiday In Wales Thursday, 13th January 2005
Iran Focus

if justice was not served in the Islamic republic. Her comments came after Iran's hardline judiciary, up in the death of Zahra Kazemi, abruptly halted the case. Ebadi, who last year became the first Muslim woman to win the coveted Nobel Peace Prize, lives in an apartment underneath her office in central Tehran. She said she believed the intruder or intruders broke the door while she was not at home. She added that nothing was missing from her apartment and that she had informed the police.

Holiday Wales Paris, Jan. 13 - Nobel Peace prize laureate Shirin Ebadi said today she had been summoned by Iran's hardline judiciary, risking arrest if she did not attend.

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Cottage Holiday In Wales "I have received a summons to a revolutionary court," she told the French news agency, AFP.

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Caravan Holiday In Wales The summons says Ebadi must present herself to courts within the next three days to explain herself, otherwise she would be arrested.

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Camping Holiday Wales Ebadi represented the family of Zahra Kazemi, a Canadian-Iranian photographer murdered in custody in 2003, whose high-profile case has strained Iran-Canadian ties.

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Accommodation Holiday Wales During the trial of Kazemi's alleged killer last year, Ebadi accused the judiciary of covering up facts that implicated high-ranking government officials in the murder.

Holiday Last Minute Wales Ebadi claimed that she had "no idea" as to why she had received the summons, stating that she would wait until the last moment to answer the judiciary.

Catering Holiday Self Wales Ebadi was the first female judge in Iran prior to the 1979 Islamic Revolution. But she was stripped of her post when ruling clerics decided that women were by nature unsuitable for such responsibilities after the revolution.

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