Ebadi told AP that the government rejected her request to stage a peaceful rally yesterday inside a park in Tehran.
(AP)
(AP)
10 November 2004 -- Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi said today that the Iranian government has refused to give her permission to stage a rally to protest the executions of people under age 18 in the Islamic republic.
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