European Union Awards Rights Prize To Jailed Iranians

By THOMAS ERDBRINK, New York Times
Fri, 10/26/2012 - 8:54am

The European Union awarded its most prestigious human rights award on Friday to two imprisoned Iranians, the lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and the filmmaker Jafar Panahi.

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