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December 6-10, 1999 / Azar 15-19, 1378
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* Relatives of bombing victims demonstrate
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* Pro-reform newspaper (Salam) back under
new title
* Nuri to appeal jail sentence
* Staff of banned Khordad vow to publish new paper
* Abdollah Nouri still has 10 days to appeal jail sentence
* Lufthansa "discriminates" against Iranian passengers
* 1200 people commemorate the anniversary of authors'
murders
* Former Tehran police chief and 19 others face trial
* Dissident's Imprisonment Widens Political Gap in Iran
* Iran protests to United States about treatment of its clerics
* Janati accuses Washington of serial killings in Iran
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Thursday
December 9, 1999
* Relatives of bombing victims demonstrate in Tehran
TEHRAN, Dec 9 (AFP) - Some 40 relatives of victims of a recent bomb
attack in southwest Iran blamed on the outlawed opposition People's Mujahedeen
staged a protest demonstration in Tehran Thursday. The protestors gathered
before the German embassy, calling on German officials to prevent the Mujahedeen
from further activities and demanded their expulsion from that country
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Wednesday
December 8, 1999
* Pro-reform newspaper (Salam) which triggered riots back under new
title
TEHRAN, Dec 8 (AFP) - Staff members of the leading pro-reform Salam
daily, whose closure in July sparked six days of unprecedented student
riots in Tehran, brought a new reformist newspaper to the newsstands Wednesday
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* Nuri to appeal jail sentence "in order to be parliamentary
candidate"
TEHRAN, Dec 8 (AFP) - Jailed reformist Abdollah Nuri will appeal against
his five-year sentence for spreading "anti-Islamic propaganda,"
to give him a chance of running in the February elections, his lawyer said
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Tuesday
December 7, 1999
* Staff of banned Khordad vow to publish new paper
TEHRAN, Dec 7 (AFP) - Staff of the leading Iranian daily Khordad Tuesday
thumbed their nose at a ban issued by a hardline clerical court late last
month by vowing to bring a new reformist title to the newsstands. Some
100 staff gathered at the paper's offices in Tehran to defy the Special
Court for Clergy's (SCC) order for the closure of the paper ... FULL TEXT
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* Abdollah Nouri still has 10 days to appeal jail sentence
TEHRAN, Dec 7 (AFP) - Leading Iranian reformer Abdollah Nuri still has
10 days to appeal a five-year jail sentence handed down by a clerical court
last month, the Tehran press reported Tuesday. Any appeal will first have
to be examined for its "validity," newspapers quoted the head
of the Special Court for Clergy (SCC), Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, as telling
a meeting of law students ... FULL
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* Lufthansa "discriminates" against Iranian passengers
6 Dec 1999 (American Iranian Anti-Discrimination Center) -- On Thursday,
December 2, 1999, as we were checking in at Lufthansa (German Airline)
counter at San Francisco Airport for our flight to Frankfurt, the Lufthansa
officers imposed us and all other Iranian passengers a discriminatory act
of luggage search. The reason: We were "Iranians"! ... FULL TEXT
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Monday
December 6, 1999
* 1200 people commemorate the anniversary of authors' murders
TEHRAN, Dec 6 (AFP) - Some 1200 Iranians gathered in a mosque here Monday
in memory of two authors slain last year during a string of murders of
leading intellectual dissidents that authorities blamed on rogue members
of the secret police. They assembled in the Fakhr-Abad mosque to mark the
anniversary of the deaths of Mohammad Mokhtari and Jafar Puyandeh, whose
murders followed those of secular opposition leader Daryush Foruhar and
his wife Parveneh ... FULL
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* Former Tehran police chief and 19 others face trial over July unrest:
radio
TEHRAN, Dec 5 (AFP) - Tehran' former police chief Farhad Nazari and
19 other officers and men will be court-martialled soon for their role
in the repression of last July's student demonstrations, state radio said
Monday. Heavy-handed police intervention against the demonstrations at
Tehran university which followed the banning of a pro-reform newspaper
sparked off the worst rioting in Iran for 20 year ... FULL
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* Dissident's Imprisonment Widens Political Gap in Iran
December 6, 1999, (The New York Times) -- Student protests against the
sentence continued Sunday, and Abdullah Nouri, the high-ranking cleric
who was jailed on heresy charges, sent a message from prison that he was
holding firm to his refusal to appeal, as a matter of principle. At the
same time, word came from the clerical court that condemned him that it
was considering new prosecutions of Nouri's associates on a reformist Tehran
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* Iran protests to United States about treatment of its clerics
December 6, 1999, (The Guardian) -- A party of senior Iranian theologians
has withdrawn from a conference in Washington in protest at their treatment
by US immigration officials. The decision by the authorities at JFK airport
in New York to take fingerprints and photographs of the mullahs at the
weekend has caused outrage in Iran and has highlighted the difficulties
in improving the Islamic republic's relations with the United States ...
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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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