By Ayesha Husain Shirin Ebadi, the first Muslim woman to be given the Nobel Peace Prize, has reported several recent death threats on her life. On April 5th, one such threat took the form of a missive sent to her office with the words, Shirin Ebadi, your death is near?. While Ebadi has been at the receiving end of such warnings for some time, the threats have recently intensified and have begun to target members of Ebadi”s family as well. [...]
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