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Norway: Iran seizes Nobel laureate Ebadi's medal

Author Shirin Ebadi from Iran poses with the German copy of her latest book "Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope" during a media conference in Berlin in 2006. Ebadi's Nobel Peace Prize medal from 2003 has been seized from a safe-deposit box in Iran. (AP Photo/Jan Bauer)

By Associated Press
Published: 11/26/2009 9:19 AM
Last Modified: 11/26/2009 9:19 AM

OSLO — Norway's Foreign Ministry says it has lodged a formal complaint with Iran after authorities there confiscated human rights activist Shirin Ebadi's Nobel Peace Prize medal.

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Ragnhild Imerslund said Thursday that someone had informed Norwegian authorities that the medal was seized "within the last week or so" along with Ebadi's personal effects from a safe-deposit box in Iran. She wouldn't name the source of the information.

Ebadi won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003 for promoting democracy and human rights in Iran. The prize is awarded by a Norwegian committee.

Imerslund says the Foreign Ministry called in Iran's charge d'affaires in Norway Wednesday to protest the confiscation.

The Iranian embassy in Norway refrained from giving a comment.

By Associated Press

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	Report Comment Four Sixteen Rigby, Tulsa (11/26/2009 9:29:15 AM) By God, they've lodged a formal protest. A FORMAL PROTEST, do you hear me? That'll show them pesky mullahs who's boss.
	Report Comment Corvetteguy, Tulsa (11/26/2009 10:44:27 AM) Mark my words,................ Someday,......... Iran will cause the next major war in this world. ................Mark my words.
	Report Comment parksport, (11/26/2009 12:06:04 PM) I guess that is one ironic way to get a Nobel Peace Prize medal.
	Report Comment Webmeister, Tulsa (11/26/2009 1:13:32 PM) Mark by words, someday Iran will get the H-Bomb......get right down their too-tightly-winded turbans: 1,000,000 degrees and windy in Tehran, followed by Mashhad, Esfahan, Tabriz, and Shiraz, Mehraban Airbase, and Bandar-e-Abbas Naval base.
	Report Comment Webmeister, Tulsa (11/26/2009 8:38:08 PM) Maybe President Obambi can loan Mrs. Ebadi his medal, when he gets it in a few days. See, Mrs. Ebadi actually EARNED her Nobel Peace Prize, and has risked death or imprisonment many times from the Ayotollahs for her unwavering positions for the rule of law and human rights. Unlike our Great Pretender, who was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize within 12 days of taking office as POTUS......having accomplished: NOTHING. CHANGE you can believe in, wasn't that last year's slogan....??
	Report Comment Isaac Parker, Tulsa (11/26/2009 11:51:43 PM) too bad they didn't seize Al Gore
	Report Comment FUTURE WORLD, Tulsa (11/27/2009 12:05:38 AM) ANd what purpose does seizing the medal serve? Like she was planning to wear it in a parade or something.

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