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To go or not to go? MEP's trips to Iran was cancelled at the last minute in 2011 and 2010 (Photo: Amin Tabrizi)

MEPs cancel Iran trip over Sakharov meeting

Two Iranian dissidents have won the EU's freedom prize, but MEPs who had hoped to meet them in Iran have called off their trip.

The parliament on Friday (26 October) said that Jafar Panahi (a film maker) and Nasrin Sotoudeh (a human rights lawyer) got the prize as "a message of solidarity and recognition to a woman and a man who have not been bowed by fear and intimidation and who have decided to put the fate of their country before their own."

Sotoudeh, a mother of two, is curren...

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.

To go or not to go? MEP's trips to Iran was cancelled at the last minute in 2011 and 2010 (Photo: Amin Tabrizi)

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.

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