Iran's judiciary admitted yesterday it had made an administrative error by summoning Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi to a national security court, and said there was no danger she would be arrested. Judiciary spokesman Jamal Karimi-Rad also dismissed a complaint from Ebadi over the use of solitary confinement, saying such cells no longer existed and had been replaced by "comfortable suites"."The prosecutor reviewed the case when he learned it concerned Ebadi, and found some mistakes had been made," Karimi-Rad told reporters. He explained that the clerk who wrote the summons "was not experienced enough", and had failed to state the reason for the summons and had also mistakenly called Ebadi to a branch of the feared Revolutionary Court - a body that normally handles political or national security crimes. The case, he explained, concerned a private complaint about an "insult". The spokesman also stressed this was also "pardonable".
"The prosecution would like to see the plaintiff. He has not been found yet," Karimi-Rad said. "It is a public case so should go to a public court and not a Revolutionary Court.