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* Khatami to name names in attack on student hostel
* MPs reject screen-candidates bill
* Court releases reformist editor on bail

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* Iran arrests 98 policemen for student hostel raid
* Iran MPs back candidate vetting
* Student group publishes list of missing
* Enemies of the Internet
* Reformist government seeks political parties
* Leftists launch first real political party
* More student unrest leaders detained in Tehran
* Student group issues statement on arrests
* Interview: "The Risk Has Increased Substantially"

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Thursday
August 12, 1999

* Khatami to name names in attack on student hostel

TEHRAN, Aug 12 (Reuters) - President Mohammad Khatami said on Thursday his government had identified those behind last month's brutal attack on pro-democracy students and would shortly reveal the results of its investigation. ``In investigating this issue we have held hundreds of hours of meetings, scores of people have been interviewed, hundreds of documents have been reviewed and the culprits have been identified,'' Khatami said in remarks reported by the official IRNA news agency ... FULL TEXT

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* MPs reject screen-candidates bill

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- The Iranian parliament rejected a bill that would have relaxed the screening of candidates for next year's legislative elections, the Tehran Times reported Thursday. Moderates in parliament wanted the Guardians Council, which acts as an upper house of parliament and oversees elections, to ease its screening process ... FULL TEXT

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* Court releases reformist editor on bail

TEHRAN, Aug 12 (Reuters) - Iran's Press Court, which normally hears cases to do with the media in front of a press jury, has released a reformist newspaper editor on bail after 22 days in prison, newspapers said on Thursday. Kazem Shokri, an editor at the popular reformist Sobh-e Emrouz newspaper, was released on 150 million rials ($5 million) bail, they said ... FULL TEXT

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Wednesday
August 11, 1999

* Iran arrests 98 policemen for student hostel raid

TEHRAN, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Iranian security forces have arrested 98 policemen for their role in a brutal raid on a student dormitory which led to riots in the capital last month, Iran's police chief said in remarks published on Wednesday. Local newspapers said General Hedayat Lotfian made his remarks on Tuesday to a closed-door session of parliament, where he had been summoned to provide an explanation for the July 8-9 attack to suppress a pro-democracy student demonstration ... FULL TEXT

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* Iran MPs back candidate vetting

Aug 11, (BBC) - Parliament in Iran has approved a measure to maintain the system of vetting election candidates for their adherence to Islamic principles. The vetting is carried out by the Council of Guardians, a body dominated by conservatives who have blocked thousands of individuals from standing in past elections ... FULL TEXT

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Tuesday
August 10, 1999

* Student group publishes list of people missing since campus unrest

August 9, 1999 (Neshat - BBC Worldwide Monitoring) -- The Council Elected by Students [CES] has issued its communique No 7 regarding the names of the people missing in the Tehran University hostel incident. The communique said: Following the announcement in communique No 6 of the names of the people missing in the Tehran University hostel incident, it is hereby announced that according to reports received from the public, the whereabouts of Maysam Ardeshiri, Daryush Ramezani, Kamran Alamdehi are now known, and the names of three other people have been added to the list ... FULL TEXT

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* Reporters sans Frontieres Uncovers Enemies of the Internet

PARIS, FRANCE, 1999 AUG 9 (Newsbytes) -- A new report by Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF) has named 45 nations the group considers enemies of the Internet for the blocking and filtering or all-out banning the nations impose on Internet access. Of the 45 nations, RSF said 20 can be described as real enemies of the Internet for their actions. They are: the countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus (Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kirghizia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan), Belarus, Burma, China, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia and Vietnam ... FULL TEXT

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Monday
August 9, 1999

* Reformist government seeks political parties

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's interior minister Sunday called for the formation of political parties in the Islamic republic, a move seen in line with President Mohammad Khatami's vision of an Islamic ``civil society'' in Iran. ``Political development is a fundamental aspect of our system. There's is no denying,'' Interior Minister Abdolvahed Mousavi-Lari said. ''We must find a strategy to best achieve this goal, given the new atmosphere created and emphasis in the constitution on the need for parties and people's participation in the political process.'' ... FULL TEXT

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* Leftists launch first real political party

August 2, 1999, (Iran Weekly Press Digest) -- Iranian leftists proclaimed Monday that they will launch the first real political party in Iran's history. The Islamic Labour Party (ILP) will be the first political party which will be formed in Iran with the initiative of the Labour House and labour syndicates, Labour House Secretary General and main founder of the ILP, Ali-Reza Mahjub, told reporters in Tehran ... FULL TEXT

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* More student unrest leaders detained in Tehran

Tehran (dpa) - More leaders of last month's student unrest in Teheran have been arrested and detained, the daily Neshat reported Sunday. Abolfazl Passebani, a student leader from the Economic School of Tehran University, was brought to the notorious Evin prison after being heard by the Islamic Revolution Court (IRC), Neshat reported ... FULL TEXT

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* Student group issues statement on arrests

August 7, 1999, (Hamshahri , BBC Worldwide Monitoring) -- Following the publication of reports about the arrest of a number of students in Tehran and provincial cities who are either members of or are affiliated to the student organization the Office for Fostering Unity, the organization has issued a statement saying that the way the arrests were made and the interrogations carried out does not reveal a serious determination to confront people who promote violence ... FULL TEXT

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Friday
August 6, 1999

* "The Risk Has Increased Substantially"

August 3, (Frankfurt/Main Frankfurter Rundschau) - The forbidden Iranian People's Party advocates democracy and freedom of speech. Its members see themselves subject to mass persecution by the government since the student unrest in Tehran. Frankfurter Rundschau staff member Andrea Claudia Hoffman spoke with Mehran Adib (Brussels), chairman of the European branch of Hesb-e Mellat-e [Iranian People's Party] ... FULL TEXT

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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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