Nobel winner refuses Iranian court

[democratic]

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/01/15/iran.ebadi.ap/

Sunday, January 16, 2005 Posted: 0132 GMT (0932 HKT)

Shirin Ebadi, at her office in Tehran, Iran, said she was not afraid of going to jail.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi told Iran's hard-line Revolutionary Court on Saturday she won't obey a vague summons on her to appear for questioning, even if it means she will be jailed -- an open challenge to a powerful body that has tried and convicted many pro-reform intellectuals.

Ebadi, the first Iranian and Muslim woman to win the Nobel peace prize in 2003, vowed in a wide-ranging exclusive interview with The Associated Press to resist hard-line threats against her life and will never bow to intimidation.

"I do continue to receive anonymous death threats in various forms such as threatening letters and calls," Ebadi, 57, said. "I've come to believe people who send threatening messages are linked to certain people who provoke them." "This is intimidation. My record shows that I won't give in to intimidation."

The feared Revolutionary Court, which deals with security crimes, has ordered Ebadi to appear before a branch of the court for "some explanations" or face arrest. The court did not say on what matter it wants her to appear.

[bemildred]

1. Good for her. Let's see who has the bigger balls.

Is the "Revolutionary Court" going to throw a Nobel winner in jail?
Perhaps stoning to death or some other barbaric stupidity?
:puke:

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2. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1154999