Iran's Human Rights Activists Being Arrested, Nobel Prize Winner Tells NPR

[chatnoir]

Source: NPR

By Mark Memmott

Security officials posing as clients entered the Tehran offices of one of Iran's leading human rights lawyers today and arrested him, Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi just told NPR's Davar Iran Ardalan.

That lawyer, Abdolfattah Soltani, spoke with Davar just yesterday -- telling her that the Iranian government should recount all the votes in last Friday's disputed presidential election, in which President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner by a 2-1 margin.

"Once they were inside they immediately confiscated his computer and other documents and they arrested Mr. Soltani," Ebadi said in today's interview. "As far as we know, they did not have an arrest warrant."

Read more: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2009/06/ebadi.html?ft=1&f=103943429

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Audio and more at the link.

[rockymountaindem]

1. And some would have us believe these are the actions of a government that knows

it has won the election "fair and square". Yeah right.

[Wizard777]

2. Now they need to have Bin Laden crash some planes into buildings to change the national subject.

It worked here in America. :sarcasm: