The Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate and human rights activist Shirin Ebadi says that she has received numerous death threats recently. The threats have been presented in the form of notes on the door to the building where she has her office. One of the notes simply states that she will soon die. -The threats against me and my family have become more serious, warns Ebadi. (15-APR-08)
Based on a news release from the Noregian nrews agency NTB, this article has been translated and prepared for publication here by HRH F / Niels Jacob Harbitz. Photo of Ebadi: HRH F / Harbitz.
Ebadi, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003, is also a rafto Human Rights Award Laureate and a close friend of the Human Rights House Network. Following her first visit to the Human Rights House in Oslo in 2004, as keynote speaker at the HRH Network´s 10th anniversary conference ´Activists Under Attack: Defending the Right to be a Human Rights Defender,´ Ebadi has returned several times. Last year, she wrote a letter of endorsement to the HRH Network, emphasizing its effectiveness in supporting her own and other human rights defenders´ work around the world. ´The success of the Human Rights House Network is our success,´ she concluded her letter.
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