Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi, center, leaves her Human Rights Defenders Centre after Iranian police shut it down in Tehran on December 21, 2008. European Pressphoto AgencyFrom L.A. Times:
Young men with ties to a hard-line political group shout slogans and vandalize the Tehran building where the human rights lawyer lives and works.
Reporting from Tehran and Beirut -- Scores of young men gathered around the Tehran home-office of Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, shouted slogans against her and vandalized her home in the latest episode by hard-line political groups close to the government to intimidate the human rights lawyer.
Ebadi, 61, said Friday that two police officers dispatched after her frantic phone calls to authorities "just watched" Thursday as the vandals ripped off the sign bearing her name on her house, screamed that she was a supporter of Israel's Gaza Strip offensive and spray-painted slogans on the front of her building.
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