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03/11/2004
Iranian author sues US
Nobel Peace Prize winner and human rights activist, Shirin Ebadi, is suing the US government for blocking the publication of her memoirs.
Ebadi is arguing that the Department regulations restricting the publication in the United States of works by authors in countries subject to US trade sanctions - including Iran, Cuba and Sudan - is unconstitutional.
She filed the suit together with US literary agent, The Strothman Agency in New York last week.
Ebadi was the first Iranian and the first Muslin woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, she has been imprisoned for defending human rights and pursuing justice for violence victims in Iran.
In her suit she said that blocking her memoirs would be a "critical missed opportunity both for Americans to learn more about my country and its people from a variety of Iranian voices and for a better understanding to be achieved between our two countries."
She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003.
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