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December 16, 2004
BACKING OFF
Six weeks after The Wall Street Journal reported that Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi had sued the U.S. Treasury Department for denying her right to free speech by ruling that she could not publish her memoir in this country, the government has backed off. It has now dropped restrictions on writers from Cuba, Iran and Sudan publishing original works in the U.S., the WSJ reported today.Posted by at December 16, 2004 12:31 PM
