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Rights From left: Mohammad Mokhtari, Mohammad-Jafar Pouyandeh, Parvaneh Foruhar, Daryush Foruhar In the name of the pen The home of Iranian writers and journalists * May 1999 index * Main index * Links - Free Iran Press Page - 1994 declaration of 134 writers - Iranian HR Working Group - The Sarkuhi case - Amnesty International - Human Rights Watch - PEN American Center - UN High Commissioner for HR - More Human Rights sites  * News sources - The Iranian newsroom  - Iranian online media guide May 1999 news index May 31 * Pro-Khatami press under increasing pressure TEHRAN, May 30 (AFP) - The brief detention of the head of Iran's official news agency was portrayed in the Iranian press Sunday as the latest twist in a campaign of pressure by conservatives against reformist media, less than a year away from parliamentary elections ... FULL TEXT *Arya managing editor zohdi released on bail tehran, may 31, irna -- managing editor of persian language daily 'arya' mohammad reza zohdi was released from evin prison here this evening after posting a bail of rls 21 million (usd 70,000) ... FULL TEXT * Tavana to protest Tehran, (Iran daily) - The next issue of Tavana will not be published in order to protest recent decisions by the judiciary against members of the press ...FULL PERSIAN IMAGE TEXT * Legal defense fund for accused journalists Tehran, (Iran daily) - Journalists are thinking about setting up a legal defense fund to help those accused of press violations ... FULL PERSIAN IMAGE TEXT May 30 * Pro-Khatami press under increasing pressure TEHRAN, May 30 (AFP) - The brief detention of the head of Iran's official news agency was portrayed in the Iranian press Sunday as the latest twist in a campaign of pressure by conservatives against reformist media, less than a year away from parliamentary elections ... FULL TEXT * Hardliners again attack reformist media TEHRAN, May 30 (Reuters) - Several Iranian publishers close to Iran's moderate President Mohammad Khatami have been detained but most, including the head of Iran's official IRNA news agency, have been released on bail, newspapers said on Sunday ... FULL TEXT * Trial held for former press director general Tehran, may 30, irna -- former director general of the culture and islamic guidance ministry's domestic press department issa saharkhiz went on trial in a special court branch 1410 for civil servants here sunday on charges of allowing zan (woman) daily to publish a special supplementary during the sixth press festival ... FULL TEXT May 29 * IRNA managing director jailed in blow to Iran's moderate press TEHRAN, May 29 (AFP) - Fereydoun Verdinejad, the managing director of the official Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), was arrested Saturday in a new blow to the moderate press close to reformist President Mohammad Khatami ... FULL TEXT * Iranian news agency chief out on bail: IRNA TEHRAN, May 29 (AFP) - Fereydoun Verdinejad, the managing director of the official Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), was released on bail Saturday after spending six hours in prison, the agency said ... FULL TEXT May 27 * Satellite TV equipment seized in Iran TEHRAN, May 27 (AFP) -Iranian police seized 855 satellite television dishes and decoders hidden in a trailer hauling wheat in a southern suburb of Tehran, Kayhan paper reported Thursday ... FULL TEXT May 26 * Conservative reappointed head of Iranian state radio, television TEHRAN, May 26 (AFP) - Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday reappointed the conservative head of state radio and television to another five-year term and called for renewed commitment to the ideological struggle. Ali Larijani, 43, who served as minister of culture and Islamic guidance from 1992 to 1994, was reappointed as director of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), the official IRNA news agency said ... FULL TEXT May 24 * Iranian speaker warns against unchecked "freedoms" TEHRAN, May 24 (AFP) - Iran's conservative speaker of parliament, Ali Akbar Nateq-Nuri, warned Monday that unchecked "freedoms" were threatening the ideological foundations of the Islamic Revolution ... FULL TEXT May 10 * Open Letter from Iranian activists in Iran May 10, 1999, (Anout Iran) - Dear Compatriots: One hundred seventy bitter days have passed since the silencing of two shining stars of freedom and liberty of the Iranian nation. In the meantime, the culprits are still free, the wheels of justice are still immobile, and the nation is still waiting [for answers]! ... FULL TEXT May 2 Reuters: Iran reformers triumphant after assembly vote May 1 Reuters: Mohajerani defeats impeachment vote Links * By the way * Cover stories * Bookstore * Who's who * Subscribe to The Iranian Times Copyright © 1997 Abadan Publishing Co. All Rights Reserved. May not be duplicated or distributed in any form Web Site Design by Multimedia Internet Services, Inc Internet server by Global Publishing Group.