Nobel Peace Laureate Ebadi Urges Iranians to Keep up Protests

Nobel Peace Laureate Ebadi Urges Iranians to Keep up Protests
Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi of Iran looks on during a news conference against mining in the town of Casillas, Guatemala, Oct. 26, 2017. Reuters/Luis Echeverria
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DUBAI—Iranian Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi urged the people of Iran to engage in civil disobedience and press on with nationwide protests that are posing the boldest challenge to its leaders since pro-reform unrest in 2009.

Saudi-owned pan-Arab daily Asharq Al-Awsat quoted Iran’s most famous human rights lawyer as saying Iranians should stay on the street and that the constitution gave them the right to hold demonstrations.