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* Rights group urges release of Iranian reformer
* Amir-Entezas returned to prison
* Stop deportation from Germany
* Special courts for the clergy: legitimate?
* Iranian cleric Nouri defies appeal calls
* Opposition figure attacked, students clash
* Khatami in dilemma over dissident jailing
* Reformers condemn and hardliners welcome jailing of Nuri
* Parliament to reopen probe on murdered intellectuals
* Court Silences Iran Reformist With Jail Term
* Khatami defends jailed reformist Abdollah Nouri
* Pro-reform press slams jail sentence on leading reformist
* Culture minister deplores Nuri sentence
* Neshat editor gets three years in prison: sources
* Conservative papers get lenient court rulings
* MPs propose amnesty to include regime's opponents
* Definitive report on Iran's July riots out soon: radio
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Friday
December 3, 1999
* Janati accuses Washington of serial killings in Iran
TEHRAN, Dec 3 (AFP) - Conservative Iranian cleric Ayatollah Ahmad Janati
accused the United States Friday of being behind a series of murders of
intellectuals and opposition politicians in Iran a year ago ... FULL TEXT
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Thursday
December 2, 1999
* Iran clergy challenge supreme leader on Nouri
TEHRAN, Dec 2 (Reuters) - A group of reform-minded Iranian clergy challenged
the country's supreme ruler regarding the recent jailing of a leading reformist
politician, in a statement published on Thursday. ``The sentence of (reformist
cleric Abdollah) Nouri was issued by a court which...everybody knows to
be in open legal conflict with the constitution,'' said a statement issued
by the League of Teachers at the religious Qom Seminaries and which was
published in newspapers ... FULL
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* Rights group urges release of Iranian reformer
DUBAI, Dec 2 (Reuters) - A U.S.-based human rights group urged Iran's
spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to quash the conviction of a leading
reformist politician, jailed for five years on charges of dissidence ...
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* Amir-Entezas returned to prison
\TEHRAN, Dec 2 (AFP) - A liberal Iranian opposition figure, Abbas Amir-Entezam,
who was released in October after spending most of the past two decades
in jail, has been returned to prison, opposition sources said Thursday
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* Stop deportation from Germany
December 2, (The International Federation of Iranian Refugees) -- Bahram
Jalali, a political activist, is at imminent risk of being deported to
Iran from Germany. Jalali face a serious threat to his life and liberty
if forcibly returned. The International Federation of Iranian Refugees
(IFIR) condemns the German government's plan to deport Jalali and demands
that the government provide him with protection... FULL
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Wednesday
December 1, 1999
* Special courts for the clergy: legitimate?
December 1, 999: Commentary by Sadeq Saba of the BBC Persian Service
on the trial of Abdollah Nouri and the special clerical court which sentenced
to fice years in prison (RealAudio) ... LISTEN
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* Iranian cleric Nouri defies appeal calls
TEHRAN, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Reformist cleric Abdollah Nouri, locked up
in Iran's most notorious prison for religious and political dissent, has
rejected all calls to appeal against his landmark conviction. Nouri's lawyer
Mohsen Rohami said his client, a 50-year-old Shi'ite Moslem cleric, remained
defiant behind bars, rejecting proposals from political and religious allies
that he fight the verdict of the hardline Special Court for Clergy....
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* Opposition figure attacked, students clash
TEHRAN, Dec 1 (AFP) - Iranian liberal opposition figure Habibollah Peyman
was assaulted by stone-throwing protestors in the town of Semnan, from
which he sustained head injuries, a top opposition official said Wednesday
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Tuesday
November 30, 1999
* Khatami in dilemma over dissident jailing
TEHRAN, Nov 30 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami finds himself
caught between the rule of law he has insisted on implementing here and
calls to intervene in the jailing of the nation's leading reformist. Since
a hardline religious court slapped former interior minister Abdollah Nuri
with a five-year prison term Saturday, and closed his popular daily paper,
Khatami's pro-reform backers have called for the verdict to be overturned
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* Reformers condemn and hardliners welcome jailing of Nuri
TEHRAN, Nov 30 (AFP) - The reformist faction of Iranian President Mohammad
Khatami on Tuesday denounced the five-year jail sentence handed down to
a top reformer and Khatami ally for dissent while hardliners here hailed
the ruling. The Association of Combattant Clerics (ACC) said the jailing
of Abdollah Nuri on Saturday and the closure of his popular Khordad newspaper
by a conservative court was an unfair decision motivated by partisan politics
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* Parliament to reopen probe on murdered intellectuals
TEHRAN, Nov 30 (AFP) - The Iranian parliament is to continue its investigation
into a series of murders of intellectuals and opposition figures shortly,
an MP said Tuesday, contradicting a statement by a fellow deputy who said
the inquiry was being abandoned. "The Commission of inquiry will resume
its work next week," said conservative MP and commission member Ali
Movahedi-Savoji ... FULL
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Monday
November 29, 1999
* Court Silences Iran Reformist With Jail Term
By JOHN F. BURNS
The New York Times
December 28, 1999
Iran's most powerful religious court Saturday imposed a five-year jail
term and a five-year banishment from political activity on a Muslim cleric,
Abdullah Nouri, who is a close ally of Iran's reformist president and has
won wide popular support with demands for an end to authoritarian rule
by the religious hierarchy...
Nouri himself maintained a scornful attitude toward the court and a
seeming indifference to his own fate, which characterized his defiant speeches
at his trial before the Special Court for the Clergy this month. This week,
he told reporters he would not appeal the court's sentence and predicted
that the trial would only accelerate demands for sweeping changes in Iran's
political system that would take power from the religious authorities and
bestow it, under a democratic system, on Iran's 70 million people.
"It might take them a long time to learn this lesson, or it might
take them a short time," Nouri said, referring to the ruling clerics.
"What is clear, and beyond doubt, is that the case we have put before
the court will have an effect, on society and the state. What we know for
certain is that there will be change." ... FULL
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* Khatami defends jailed reformist Abdollah Nouri
TEHRAN, Nov 28 (AFP) - President Mohammad Khatami on Sunday sprang to
the defence of his close ally Abdollah Nuri, Iran's leading reformer who
was sentenced to five years in prison for religious and political dissent
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* Iran's pro-reform press slams jail sentence on leading reformist
TEHRAN, Nov 28 (AFP) - Iran's moderate press on Sunday unanimously slammed
a five-year jail sentence on former interior minister and leading reformist
Abdollah Nuri, a close ally of President Mohammad Khatami ... FULL TEXT
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* Culture minister deplores Nuri sentence
TEHRAN, Nov 29 (AFP) - Iran's moderate culture minister Monday deplored
the conviction of leading reformist Abdollah Nuri by a conservative clerical
court, saying like Nuri he contested the tribunal's competence, the state
news agency IRNA reported ... FULL
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* Neshat editor gets three years in prison: sources|
TEHRAN, Nov 27 (AFP) - Iranian pro-reform journalist Mashallah Shamsolvaezin
has been given a three-year prison term on anti-Islamic charges, judicial
sources said on Saturday ... FULL
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* Conservative papers get lenient court rulings
TEHRAN, Nov 29 (Reuters) - An Iranian court, which has closed several
reformist publications, on Monday handed down lenient rulings against two
conservative newspapers, effectively letting off both of their publishers
with warnings ... FULL
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* MPs propose amnesty to include regime's opponents
TEHRAN, Nov 29 (AFP) - Iranians living abroad, including opponents of
the clerical regime, could be granted amnesty for the first time since
the 1979 Islamic revolution under a new draft bill, papers said here Monday
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* Definitive report on Iran's July riots out soon: radio
TEHRAN, Nov 29 (AFP) - Iran's military justice system will make public
in the next few days a definitive report on last July's riots in Iran,
state radio said Monday ... FULL
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