Tehran, Dec 03: A group of hardline Iranian Islamists today prevented Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi from giving a speech at a women's university in Tehran by chanting slogans including "death to Ebadi", university sources and the Nobel laureate's office said. "Around 50 students stopped Shirin Ebadi from giving a speech. The event had to be cancelled," a university official said.
The protestors were also quoted as chanting "Shirin, the American, ask for pardon".
Ebadi shocked conservative Iranians by appearing without a headscarf in front of television cameras in Paris after the announcement of her award on October 10.
On December 10, she is due to head to Oslo to formally accept her prize, awarded for her campaigning for women's and children's rights as well as her defence of dissidents. Bureau Report