Accroding to Change for Equaltiy , On Monday December 29, 2008 at 5:30 in the afternoon (equivalent to 5:30 AM Pacific Time in the US)  the private law office of Shirin Ebadi , Iranian Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Lawyer and human rights defender, was stormed by 5 security officers identifying themselves as tax officials, who presented a letter allowing them to take two computers.

Shirin Ebadi has however refused to surrender her case files and computers to these officials citing the confidential nature of the work of lawyers, especially human rights lawyers, and that the act of surrendering client files to government officials would breach that confidentiality. These security officials are presently in Ms. Ebadi’s private law office and engaged in search of the premises and seizure of property.

Ebadi is also a founding member of Nobel Women's Initiative .

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