伊朗冻结了伊朗诺贝尔和平奖得主伊巴迪的银行帐户，并没收了她的和平奖奖章。伊巴迪和她的同事说，伊朗政府要求她就所获得的130万美元的诺贝尔和平奖奖金补交40万美元的税款。
不过，伊巴迪和她的同事们表示，根据伊朗的法律，这些奖金是免税的。挪威外交大臣斯特勒说，没收伊巴迪的奖章的举动“令人震惊”，并说这是设立诺贝尔奖108年以来首次有一个国家的当局没收奖章。他表示，伊朗的这一举动是德黑兰加紧打压人权律师和异议人士的一个迹象。
挪威外交部召见伊朗驻奥斯陆外交官提出抗议。挪威外交部还对伊巴迪的丈夫遭受的待遇表示“严重关切”，称她的丈夫在德黑兰被逮捕，并遭到毒打。德黑兰没有对这一指称做出公开回应。2003年，伊巴迪成为获得诺贝尔和平奖的第一位伊朗人和第一位穆斯林女性。
Iran has frozen the bank accounts of Iranian Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi and confiscated her Peace Prize medal. Ebadi and her colleagues say the government is demanding $400,000 in back taxes on her $1.3 million prize.
But Ebadi and her colleagues say such prize money is not taxed under Iranian law. Norway’s Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere called the confiscation of Ebadi’s medal “shocking” and said it was the first time in the 108-year history of the prize that it has been confiscated by national authorities. He said Iran’s actions are a sign of the increasing pressure Tehran is putting on the human rights lawyer and dissident.
The Norwegian Foreign Ministry summoned Iran’s envoy (charge d’affaires) in Oslo to protest the action. The ministry also expressed “grave concern” about the treatment of Ebadi’s husband, saying he had been arrested in Tehran and severely beaten. Tehran has not publicly responded to the charges. Ebadi became the first Iranian and first Muslim woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003.