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Iran raids, closes office, Nobel winner says
* Story Highlights
* Iran shuts down offices headed by Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi
* Human rights campaigner was briefly held during raids on her offices
* Ebadi earned Nobel Peace Prize in 2003; she is the first Iranian to win
the honor
* Ebadi said Iranian authorities had no justification for raids, called
them illegal
>From Shirzad Bozorgmehr for CNN
TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Nobel Peace Prize laureate and human rights campaigner
Shirin Ebadi was briefly taken into custody Sunday as Iranian authorities
raided and indefinitely shut down two of her offices in Tehran, she told CNN.
The Iranian authorities never gave her an explanation for the crackdown, and
she was later released, she said, adding that there were no arrests in the
raid, but the offices remain closed.
Speaking from her home, Ebadi said the closed offices belong to two
non-governmental organizations funded by her Nobel Peace Prize earnings: the
Center for Participation in Clearing Mine Areas, which helps victims of
landmines in Iran; and Defenders of Human Rights Center, founded five years ago
to report human rights violations in Iran, defend political prisoners, and
support families of those prisoners.
Ebadi said Iranian authorities had no written justification for Sunday's raid,
which she described as illegal.
"The collective activities of the human rights activists in Iran have angered
the Iranian authorities so much that they have illegally ordered the closing
down of two NGOs," she said.
Ebadi won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003 for her human rights work, making her
the first Iranian to receive the honor. She is one of the most prominent Muslim
women in the world and serves as the president of the Defenders of Human Rights
Center.
In August 2006, Ebadi said the Iranian government informed her that the agency
is "illegal" and vowed to arrest those who continued to work there.
"Of course, me and the other members of the center do not intend to shut down
the center and we shall continue our activities," she said at the time.
She said the center -- which has operated for over five years in Tehran -- "is
a member of the International Federation for Human Rights" and "has also been
awarded a human rights prize by the Human Rights National Commission in France."
"This center is very well known and credible in Iran," she said in 2006.
The Nobel committee has described Ebadi as a champion of human rights who "sees
no conflict between Islam and fundamental human rights.
"As a lawyer, judge, lecturer, writer and activist, she has spoken out clearly
and strongly in her country, Iran, and far beyond its borders. She has stood up
as a sound professional, a courageous person, and has never heeded the threats
to her own safety."
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