Nobel Prize Winner Is Summoned Before Court
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From Times Wire Reports
Shirin Ebadi, the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner, said she had been ordered to appear before Iran’s Revolutionary Court or face arrest.
Ebadi, a human rights lawyer who has riled religious hard-liners by defending political dissidents, said she was not informed of any charge against her.
Ebadi, 57, the first Muslim woman and first Iranian to win the peace prize, said she had not decided when she would appear.
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