The winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize and the first female judge in Iran, Shirin Ebadi, claims she has received a death threat for challenging the current Iranian regime.

She said the threats were in a letter she received by mail in which 2,470 names including her own were listed as having been sentenced to life “for their anti-revolutionary and anti-Islamic activities.”

Ebadi was forced to remove herself as jurist in 1979 as the Islamic Revolution swept across Iran. It appears as if it’s business as usual within Iran, but the government’s actions against Democracy advocates, all the while Iran claims they represent a democratic government, have risen within the last year alone.

Ramin Jahanbegloo, a Candian-Iranian professor who challenged Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s denial of the Holocaust, was recently released from prison. Jahanbegloo faced charges of “relations with foreigners,” no, not that kind of relations, and ‘confessed’ in prison he wanted to take part in a “velvet revolution,” presumably which would have toppled the Mullahs.