Towel
- ID-nummer
- 2012.013.001
- Titel
- Towel
- Objektkategori
- Övrigt
- Publik beskrivning
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This towel reminds Shirin Ebadi of her time in prison. The background is that in the wake of the student protests in Iran in 1999, lawyer Shirin Ebadi offered to represent a family whose son had been killed when armed groups cracked down on the protests. In June 2000, she was arrested on charges of having manipulated the filmed testimony of a defector from one of the armed groups. When Ebadi asked to wash herself in the prison, she was denied a towel. She did, however, have just enough money to buy a towel in the prison store. After her release, Ebadi kept the towel as a memento.
Shirin Ebadi donated the towel to the Nobel Prize Museum in 2012. - Pristagare
- Shirin Ebadi
Part of Towel