IRANIAN NOBEL WINNER EBADI PRESS CONFERENCE IN TEHRAN
Shirin Ebadi, Iranian winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, answers a question from media during a news conference in Tehran Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2003. Shirin Ebadi demanded that Iran's rulers free all political prisoners and detainees. (UPI/Ali Khaligh)
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BEIJING, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- A group of Nobel Peace Prize laureates is campaigning for the release of Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, who is being held in China.
OSLO, Norway, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- List of Nobel Peace Prize winners:
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Sept. 27 (UPI) -- A sharp rise in the number of executions in Iran is raising suspicions that the Tehran regime is using such judicial actions to to intimidate opponents.
NEWARK, N.J., May 13 (UPI) -- The Dalai Lama, appearing with other Nobel Peace Prize winners Friday in Newark, N.J., said much of the rest of the world could learn from the United States.
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.
LONDON, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- An Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner says Iranian efforts to crack down on anti-government protests will only bolster the will of the opposition.
TEHRAN, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- The sister of Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi has been detained by Iranian intelligence officials, the Iranian lawyer and human rights activist said.
TEHRAN, Nov. 27 (UPI) -- Iranian officials denied allegations from Norway that human rights activist Shirin Ebadi's Nobel Peace Prize was confiscated.
OSLO, Norway, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- The Iranian government has seized the Nobel Peace Prize given human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi, Norwegian officials said Thursday.
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