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LONDON, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi, a Nobel Prize laureate, said her fellow Iranian citizens should use peaceful defiance to oppose government brutality.
The Telegraph (Britain) said Saturday that Ebadi supports Iranian citizens demonstrating against the current regime, but wants those demonstrators to avoid using violence when presenting their issues.
"I believe people should take part in the demonstration," Ebadi told the Sunday Telegraph. "They should ask for their rights, but they should do it peacefully."
Ebadi is in exile in London after being forced to flee Iran following the widespread civil unrest following the country's disputed election in June 2009.
The attorney, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2003, said if demonstrators use violence, they are simply playing into the hands of regime officials.
"Obviously the regime wants people to be violent because it gives them an excuse to crack down. People must not give them that excuse," Ebadi told the Telegraph.
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