In Iran closed a human rights center Nobel laureate.

Iranian police closed the Center for the Defense of Human Rights, headed by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi in 2003, tells AFP. In the office was searched, all located in a room of people forced to leave the building.
According to the Iranian agency Mehr, the center is closed on the orders of the courts, because he did not have the permission of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on its activities. Deputy head of the center said that the police did not present the court ruling, but called his number.
The very Shirin Ebadi called closing the center and promised to pursue the illegal lifting of the decision. She said that together with his colleagues will continue its work under any circumstances.
Center for the Defense of Human Rights in Tehran has repeatedly made critical remarks about the policy of the Iranian authorities. In a further report to the center, issued in May 2008, stating that freedom of expression and freedom of information were more limited after coming to power, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2003.