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Receiving a memorial plaque, Shirin Ebadi, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, second left, shakes hands with Mohammad Maleki, a prominent political opponent as Narges Mohammadi, right, wife of Taqi Rahmani, a prominent jailed political dissident, aplaueds, while Habibollah Peyman,a prominent political opponent, looks on at the Amir Kabir university in Tehran, Iran, Wedenesday, Oct. 29, 2003. Shaking hands between unrelated men and women in public is a crime under Iranian laws and subject to jail and flogging punishment. In her most biting criticism of the ruling hard-line Islamic establishment yet, Shirin Ebadi said she owes the award to Cyrus the Great, king of ancient Persia, and Iran's writers and intellectuals in jail. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)