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Iranian Shirin Ebadi, 2nd right, Peace Nobel Laureate in 2003, speaks with Ugandan Margaret Sekaggya, left, U.N. Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights Defender, after informing the media on the situation in Iran after the elections, at a press conference in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, June 19, 2009. Iranian lawyer Shirin Ebadi pleads the immediate and unconditional release of all persons arrested since the elections. All violence must end and new elections must be held, she said. Ebadi presented in Geneva the launch of the annual report on the protection of defenders of human rights. (KEYSTONE/Salvatore Di Nolfi)