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Iranian lawyer Shirin Ebadi, Peace Nobel prize winner in 2003, ...
Dec 20th, 2010
(AP) - Iranian lawyer Shirin Ebadi, Peace Nobel prize winner in 2003, launches an appeal for the release of lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, during a sit-in of Iranian women rights activists at the Place des Nations in front of the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Dec. 20, 2010. With other activists, she demanded the release of Nasrin Sotoudeh, who is hospitalized in Iran after a hunger strike. (AP Photo/Keystone, Salvatore Di Nolfi) -
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