Alfred Nobel was born in Stockholm on October 21, 1833. His father Immanuel Nobel was an engineer and inventor who built bridges and buildings in Stockholm. In connection with his construction work Immanuel Nobel also experimented with different techniques for blasting rocks.Alfred’s mother, born Andriette Ahlsell, came from a wealthy family. Due to misfortunes […]
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Mother Teresa; The Nobel Peace Prize 1979
Synopsis Mother Teresa (baptized August 27, 1910, in Skopje, Macedonia) taught in India for 17 years before she experienced her 1946 “call within a call” to devote herself to caring for the sick and poor. Her order established a hospice; centers for the blind, aged, and disabled; and a leper […]
Majid Tavakoli Wins the International Student Peace Prize
Friday, 31 Shahrivar 1391 (September 21, 2012) Majid Tavakoli has won the 2013 International Student Peace Prize. According to Daneshjoo News, Tavakoli, one of the leaders of the Iranian student movement and a member of Tahkim Vahdat (the Office for Strengthening Unity), was announced as the winner of the International […]
Iran Criticizes EU Parliament Over Sakharov Prize
Iran has criticized the European Parliament for awarding a human rights prize to two Iranian dissidents.
Nasrin Sotoudeh and Jafar Panahi – winners of the 2012 Sakharov Prize
Two Iranian activists, lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and film director Jafar Panahi, are this year’s joint winners of the European Parliament Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. They were chosen by President Schulz and political group leaders.
Pressure mounts on Iran’s lawyers
The European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought has been collected on behalf of the jailed Iranian human rights lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh. It comes at a time of what many campaigners say is unprecedented pressure on the legal profession in Iran, reports BBC Persian’s Fariba Sahraei.
Health fears for imprisoned Sakharov prize winner in Iran
News that Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has won the Sakharov Prize – an award from the European Parliament for human rights and freedom of thought – came as her health deteriorated due to a hunger strike in protest at the Iranian authorities’ refusal to allow her face-to-face visits with her 13-year-old daughter […]
UN human rights experts urge immediate release of Sakharov Prize winners
GENEVA (1 November 2012) – A group of United Nations independent experts called for the immediate release from prison of Nasrin Sotoudeh, a prominent human rights lawyer, and Jafar Panahi, an internationally acclaimed film-maker, both of whom were recently awarded the prestigious Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought by the European Parliament.
Sakharov Prize-winner Sotoudeh’s Detention Highlights Denial of Basic Rights
Political Prisoners Denied Visits, Care (Paris, London, New York, October 31, 2012) Iran’s judiciary and prison authorities should end mistreatment of the prominent rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi and six human rights organizations said today. Ebadi and the rights groups also called on Iran’s authorities to allow all prisoners […]
Imprisoned Iranian Lawyer Awarded Sakharov Prize, Family Says She Is in Critical Condition
The European Parliament today awarded its prestigious Sakharov Prize for human rights and freedom of thought to imprisoned Iranian lawyer and human rights defender Nasrin Sotoudeh and prominent filmmaker Jafar Panahi. Both awardees have been sentenced to long prison sentences in Iran and bans on travel and their careers because of their opposition […]