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News & Views Iran closes activist newspaper December 14, 1998, TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A court on Monday fined and temporarily shut down a newspaper headed by Iran's leading woman activist, Iranian television reported. The decision was part of a crackdown on several liberal newspapers by hard-liners in the judiciary. It reflects the conservative clergy's efforts to thwart moderate President Mohammad Khatami's efforts to open up society by allowing a free media. The report did not say why the penalties were imposed on the newspaper Zan, owned by Parliament member and women's rights advocate Faezeh Hashemi. Only last Tuesday, a court cleared Hashemi of publishing untruths. Hashemi and court officials were not immediately available for comment. The report said Hashemi, the daughter of former President Hashemi Rafsanjani, was fined about $830 and prohibited from publishing for two weeks. Hard-liners in the judiciary have shut down six other publications in recent months and detained six journalists for allegedly publishing lies. The court on Monday also fined the proprietor of the newspaper Bavar, Mirza Baba Motahhari-Nezhad, $1,000 and banned him from publishing any newspaper for six months. * Iran News
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