Nobel Prize holder Shirin Ebadi joins campaign of support to Ales Bialiatski
On 10 August
well-known Iranian human rights activist and lawyer Shirin Ebadi, awarded Nobel
Peace Prize in 2003, joined the campaign in support of Ales Bialiatski,
launched by the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) in cooperation
with the Human Rights Centre Viasna.
Ms Ebadi is the first internationally
famous person who responded to the call of human rights organizations to
support Ales Bialiatski, who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in 2007.
Thanks to the efforts of FIDH,
vice-President is Mr. Belyatsky, guarantees in support of the Belarusian human
rights activist will be collected among famous people around the world.
Shirin Ebadi (Shirin Ebadi, was
born June 21 1947. in
the Iranian city of Hamadan) - Iranian human rights activist and lawyer, winner
of the memory of Professor Tarolfa Raft (2001), winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
(2003) "for contributions to the development of democracy and the struggle
for human rights especially
women and children in Iran." She is a honorary doctor of many Western universities,
including University of Toronto,
British Columbia, Australian
Catholic and others. At present she lives in
the United States.