Iran Nobel Laureate Says She Won't Vote in Election

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Iran Nobel Laureate Says She Won't Vote in Election

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Nobel peace prizewinner Shirin Ebadi said Tuesday she would not vote in Iran's parliamentary election this week because of the mass disqualification of reformist candidates.

"I will not vote myself because I don't know those who have been qualified. I'm not ready to vote for someone I don't know," the human rights lawyer said in an interview with Reuters.

"The first principle of democracy is that people should have the right to vote for anyone they want," she said, adding that the exclusion of some 2,500 contenders by a panel of hard-line clerics had "damaged people's freedom to vote."

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Iran Nobel Laureate Says She Won't Vote in Election