Oslo “outraged” over Iran’s confiscation of Nobel Peace Price medal
In 2003 Dr [Shirin]Ebadi became the first Iranian and first Muslim woman to win the peace prize, which was awarded for her campaign for democracy and human rights. She was abroad during President Ahmadinejad’s disputed re-election in June and has spent the past five months travelling the world to draw attention to the regime’s alleged electoral fraud and suppression of the opposition. “I am effectively in exile,” she said recently. Oslo's Nobel Peace Committee is "outraged", summoned the Iranian envoy to complain, and plans on making a formal complaint. This is the first time any medal has ever been confiscated...
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