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Iran's judiciary chief intervened on Tuesday in the case of a young female doctor who died in custody, ordering the supreme court to decide whether to transfer the probe to a Tehran court.
Zahra Bani Yaghoub was found dead in her cell in western Iran last year after being arrested for consorting with an unrelated male in public, in what the local authorities originally said was a suicide by hanging.
Her family lawyer Shirin Ebadi, the Nobel peace prize winner, have vehemently argued that her death was not suicide and urged the judiciary to take the case away from the provinces to a Tehran court.
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Nine Nobel Peace Prize laureates -- including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Elie Wiesel and Jody Williams -- sent a letter to Hu urging China to uphold Olympic ideals by pressing Sudan to stop atrocities in Darfur.
"As the primary economic, military and political partner of the Government of Sudan, and as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, China has both the opportunity and the responsibility to contribute to a just peace in Darfur," said the letter.
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Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu led a call by nine peace prize recipients Tuesday for the United Nations Security Council to act to halt the sale of arms to the military regime of Myanmar.
The laureates, including the Dalai Lama and Elie Wiesel, also called for nations to implement arms embargoes to prevent Myanmar from getting weapons that are used against its citizens.
The statement was issued by Tutu and signed by the exiled Tibetan Dalai Lama, Wiesel of the U.S., Iran's Shirin Ebadi, Adolfo Perez Esquivel of Argentina, Mairead Maguire and Betty Williams of Northern Ireland, Rigoberta Menchu of Guatemala and American anti-landmine activist Jody Williams.
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 Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi has called for the creation of a broad-based "National Peace Council" to give voice to Iranians who want to halt a perceived drift toward military conflict with the United States.
Ebadi, a Tehran-based human rights activist and lawyer, this week invited all Iranians to participate in the creation of the national body, saying the initiative emerged from a group of activist lawyers called the Center of Human Rights Defenders, which she co-founded.
The council is seen primarily as a discussion forum, but analysts say it has the potential to offer an alternative to the pro-confrontation policies of the current Iranian leadership.
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