| Iran's hard-line judiciary on Sunday abruptly ended the trial of a secret agent charged with murdering an Iranian-Canadian photojournalist, prompting Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi to lead her legal team out of the court and threaten to take the case to international organizations. Ebadi, who is representing the mother of slain journalist Zahra Kazemi in her first high-profile case since winning the Nobel last year, refused to sign documents charging the agent, saying they were flawed. No date was set for the verdict, but Ebadi's team has said the agent on trial, Mohammad Reza Aghdam Ahmadi, is innocent and his indictment part of a cover-up. Ahmadi, the only person charged in the killing, has pleaded innocent. |