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Friday
April 2, 1999

* Iran making human rights progress

April 1, 1999, GENEVA (AP) -- The Iranian government is making progress toward building a more ``tolerant society'' that recognizes human rights, a U.N.expert said today. However, the Islamic nation should remain under special scrutiny at the U.N.Human Rights Commission for at least another year because improvements are not extensive enough, said Maurice Danby Copithorne, the U.N. special investigator on Iran ... FULL TEXT

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Thursday
April 1, 1999

* UN praise over Iranian human rights

April 1, (BBC) The United Nations human rights investigator for Iran has said the Iranian government is making progress towards building a more tolerant society which recognises human rights. But he said Iran should remain under special scrutiny by the UN Human Rights Commission for at least another year because the improvements aren't big enough ... FULL TEXT

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* U.S. slams China, Cuba & Iran for abuses

GENEVA (Reuters) - The United States called on the United Nations human rights forum Thursday to join it in condemning China and Cuba for repressing basic political and religious freedoms. Harold Hongju Koh, assistant Secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor, also denounced violations in countries including Iraq, Iran, Sierra Leone, Sudan and the former Yugoslavia ... FULL TEXT

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Wednesday
March 31, 1999

No news - Noruz holidays

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Tuesday
March 30, 1999

* Noruz appeal: IFIR & CHAIR

I am writing once more to wish you a happy noruz and request your support for the critical work of the International Federation of Iranian Refugees (IFIR) and the Committee for Humanitarian Assistance to Iranian Refugees (CHAIR). Over these years, you have seen our unrelenting defense of refugee and human rights, a defense which has pushed back assaults on rights and saved thousands of lives ... FULL TEXT

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March 29, 1999

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Noruz appeal: IFIR & CHAIR

I am writing once more to wish you a happy noruz and request your support for the critical work of the International Federation of Iranian Refugees (IFIR) and the Committee for Humanitarian Assistance to Iranian Refugees (CHAIR). Over these years, you have seen our unrelenting defense of refugee and human rights, a defense which has pushed back assaults on rights and saved thousands of lives ... FULL TEXT

Journalists

Iran Country Report

As of December 31, 1998 (Committee to Protect Journalists) - Since President Muhammad Khatemi took office in August 1997, Iran's press has benefited from his agenda of social and political reforms. Newspapers are now tackling political subjects that would have been unthinkable only a year earlier. But almost as quickly as journalists realized their new freedoms, the press found itself the target of a relentless attacks from hard-line supporters of Iran's spiritual guide Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ... FULL TEXT

Missing

Missing: Pirouz Davani

A special web page has been created for Pirouz Davani, a political activist who left his home in Tehran on the 25th of August 1998 and has not been heard from since. On the 27th of August foreign radio stations quoted reports that he had been arrested ... GO TO WEB SITE

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Stoning

Video showing a stonings in Iran in 1991. Extremely disturbing. Not recommended ... VIDEO CLIP HERE

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