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Iran police raid Nobel Laureate's office, says aide
Iranian police on Sunday raided and closed the office of a watchdog group led by Iran's Nobel peace prize winner Shirin Ebadi, a member of the group said.
- Agencies
- Published: 18:25 December 21, 2008
Tehran: Iranian police on Sunday raided and closed the office of a watchdog group led by Iran's Nobel peace prize winner Shirin Ebadi, a member of the group said.
Narges Mohammadi, deputy head of the Human Rights Defenders Centre, told reporters that police provided no legal justification for their raid .
Mohammadi said the raid came hours ahead of the group's belated celebration of the 60th anniversary of Human Rights Day, which fell on December 10.
"Mrs Ebadi was not at the office when police raided the premises," Mohammadi said.
Police declined to comment on the report.
Ebadi, who won the 2003 Nobel peace prize, used a United Nations forum in Geneva on Wednesday to condemn hardliners in power in some countries and rulers of the world's last communist states as abusers of human rights.
Ebadi, an outspoken critic of the Islamic Republic's human rights record, said dictatorships used religion to underpin their own power.
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