September 27
Fallahian to be questioned over serial killings
TEHRAN, Sept 27 (AFP) - The head of Iranian intelligence during the
1998 murders of several dissidents and intellectuals has been asked to
appear before parliament about the case, the state news agency IRNA said
Wednesday. Ali Fallahian has been invited to "discuss" the killings,
which authorities blamed on "rogue" intelligence agents, before
parliament's national security committee, it said >>>
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September 26
Press court convicts two press chiefs, clears two
TEHRAN, Sept 26 (AFP) - Tehran's press court cleared two newspaper directors
and found two others guilty on a variety of charges, the official IRNA
news agency said Tuesday. The sentences for those found guilty had yet
to be announced following the hearings for the four on Monday, it said,
adding that the jury had recommended leniency in both cases >>>
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September 25
Wife of Iran journalist says she was blocked from prison visit: report
TEHRAN, Sept 25 (AFP) - The wife of a leading pro-reform journalist
imprisoned in Iran said she was blocked from visiting her husband for the
first time since his arrest five months ago, according to a report Sunday.
The wife of Akbar Ganji, who was arrested in April, told the student news
agency ISNA that she and his mother were supposed to have been allowed
to visit him on Saturday >>>
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September 24
Paper publishes appeal from child of imprisoned journalist
TEHRAN, Sept 24 (AFP) - Calls to release Iran's imprisoned journalists
took an emotional turn Sunday when a paper published an open letter to
President Mohammad Khatami from the young child of one of its writers.
Eight-year-old Puya Zeid-Abadi, whose letter was published along with his
photo in the Hamshahri newspaper, said he did not understand why his father
Ahmad Zeid-Abadi was not at home any more >>>
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September 19
Pro-reform journalist, lawyer released from prison
TEHRAN, Sept 19 (AFP) - A pro-reform journalist and a lawyer who has
defended the embattled reformist press were both released from prison on
Tuesday, a defence attorney told AFP. Journalist Mohammad Qouchani and
lawyer Mohammad-Ali Jedari-Forouqi, both jailed last month in separate
cases, were freed from Tehran's Evin prison, said Forouqi's lawyer, Nemat
Ahmadi >>>
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September 16
Pro-reform journalist expecting shorter prison term
TEHRAN, Sept 16 (AFP) - Iranian journalist Mashallah Shamsolvaezin,
who has been granted a week's leave from prison, said in Saturday's press
that his solitary confinement could cut time off his 30-month sentence.
Shamsolvaezin, imprisoned in April for offending Islam after articles in
his now banned newspaper questioned Iran's Islamic eye-for-an-eye law of
retribution, told the Aftab-e Yazd paper he expected the jail term to be
shortened >>>
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September 14
Iran closes notorious Tohid prison after protests
TEHRAN, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Iran's notorious Tohid prison, run by the
intelligence ministry, has been closed down, newspapers on Thursday quoted
a reformist parliamentarian as saying. ``The intelligence minister ordered
the closure of the (prison)...and nobody was held there when our delegation
visited,'' the daily Aftab-e Yazd quoted Ali Akbar Mousavi-Khoeini as saying.
Other newspapers carried similar reports >>>
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September 13
Journalist missing for two years
13 September 2000, Paris (Reporters sans frontières) - In a letter
to the head of the judiciary, Ayatollah Shahroudi, RSF expressed its deep
concern about journalist Pirouz Davani, who disappeared at the end of August
1998. The organisation, which asked at that time for an inquiry into this
case, "wishes to be informed today about the progress of this inquiry".
"The case of this journalist is extremely worrying especially in a
country with twelve journalists in jail", added Robert Ménard,
RSF's secretary-general >>>
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Detained dissident in Iran suffering from diabetes
Sept. 13, Teheran (dpa) - Hassan Yussefi-Ashkevari, a detained dissident
in Iran , is suffering from diabetes and should be released from jail for
medical reasons, the students news agency ISNA reported Wednesday. In a
letter to the judiciary, the dissident's wife, Mohtaram Yussefi-Ashkevari,
said her husband has had several attacks in prison during the night which
temporarily even led to partial paralysis. She warned of dire consequences
if he remained in prison without medical care, ISNA said >>>
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September 10
Khamenei's brother summoned to court
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - The younger brother of Iran's supreme leader has
been summoned to court on charges related to the reformist newspaper he
launched in June, his aide said Monday. The summons order for Hadi Khamenei
was the third issued by the Special Clergy Court since the Hayat-e-Nou
newspaper debuted, the aide, Abbas Safaifar, told The Associated Press.
He did not say when the order was issued or provide details of the charges
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September 9
New reformist daily hits newsstands
TEHRAN, Sept 9 (AFP) - A new reformist daily, close to Iran's moderate
President Mohammad Khatami, hit the country's newsstands Saturday following
the judiciary's recent massive crackdown on the pro-reform press. The Aftab-e-Yazd
paper, founded by Mansour Mozafari, was previously only published and sold
in the central province of Yazd, the birth place of Khatami >>>
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September 5
Iran daily retracts report parliament speaker to launch new newspaper
TEHRAN, Sept 5 (AFP) - Iran's government-run daily retracted Tuesday
a report that parliament speaker Mehdi Karubi plans to launch a new reformist
newspaper in the coming days. The paper Iran said someone else was the
founder of Aftab-e-Yazd, adding that it would have no political affiliation
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