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Norway protests confiscation of Iranian Nobel laureate's medal
Nov 26, 2009, 14:30 GMT
Oslo - Norway has protested strongly against reports that Iranian authorities have confiscated the medal awarded to 2003 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, the foreign ministry said Thursday.
'This is the first time a Nobel Peace Prize has been confiscated by national authorities,' Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Store said, expressing 'shock and disbelief' over the confiscation of the medal and the diploma. Iran's charge d'affaires was summoned to the foreign ministry over the matter, the foreign ministry in Oslo said.
Norway protested a year ago against the closure of Ebadi's human rights centre.
Ebadi was awarded the peace prize for 'her efforts for democracy and human rights, especially the rights of women and children, in Iran and the Muslim world in general.'
The peace prize is one of the awards endowed by Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite.
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