The Wire

2003 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Dr Shrini Ebadi, gave an empassioned speech at the Australian Catholic University on Friday, after being awarded an honorary doctrate for her social justice work in Iran. In 1969 Dr Ebadi became the first female judge to sit on an Iranian court, though after the Islamic revolution she was dismissed and made a clerk of the court over which she once presided. Her constant public critism of the Iranian government had seen her arrested and detained. An advocatefor women and children rights, dr Ebadi began her speech by explaining how Islam is misrepresented by many governments in the Middle east to prop-up their undemocratic rule.