Word: ebadi
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When Shirin Ebadi was in prison in Tehran a few years ago for accusing officials of plotting attacks on reformers, her husband petitioned a court to visit her behind bars. "You are a free man now!" was the male-chauvinistic wisecrack of an Islamic judge. "Why don't you take advantage of your freedom...
With last week’s announcement that Iranian activist Shirin Ebadi had taken home the Nobel Peace Prize, the 2003 Nobel season came to a close. And for the sixth consecutive year, Harvard professors stayed home empty-handed, absent from the ranks of those who “shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind...
...guys." Majar is in the homeland of the marsh Arabs, Shi'ite Muslims who, after years of oppression, hate Saddam passionately. That doesn't make them any less dangerous--especially since Iraq is one of the most heavily armed nations on Earth--when crossed. The British died, al-Ebadi thinks, in compliance with old local customs. British troops killed Iraqi civilians, so Iraqi civilians killed other British troops. "In a tribal society," says al-Ebadi, "justice is simple...
...Southern Iraq, local tribal leaders have sorted out property disputes and murder cases for centuries without the help of police and courts. So when Sheik Mohammed al-Ebadi got a call from a British officer to help defuse a riot in Majar al-Kabir, northwest of Basra, he drove there, fast. As he approached the village, he saw British paratroopers engaged in a fierce fire fight with locals armed with AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades. The locals, enraged by reports of heavy-handed searches carried out by British troops, had attacked a patrol. When the fighting was done, four...