New Delhi, November 27: Contending that criticism of the human rights situation in a country doesn't amount to interference in its internal affairs, Iranian Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi today asked Indians to visit parts of their country "like Kashmir" where, she alleged, such abuses were taking place.

Distributing posters of Sharmila, Ebadi, who visited her at AIIMS yesterday, said "if she (Sharmila) dies the whole executive branch of this country...

Would be responsible for the tragic incident".

"She has refused medication for the last few days for a very simple demand that there should be tribunal to decide on the law," she said speaking through an interpretor.

The Iranian activist, who is here to express solidarity with the work being done to help sex workers and their children, also took up the cause of Manipur's Sharmila Irom, who has been fasting for the last six years demanding repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act in her State.

Ebadi said "the same way you have the right to criticise what is taking place elsewhere, other people have a right to say what is taking place in your country".

"Like I have no shame in putting before you the human rights violations in Iran, you should also talk about what is happening in your own country...

Go to Kashmir and see what is taking place there," Ebadi told reporters here.

"It is of course true that improving the rights situation in any country is upon the people of that country.

At the same time human rights is an international concept," the Nobel laureate said when questioned as to whether she was not commeting on the internal matters of a country when talking about the rights situation there.