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* 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 ...
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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