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* Iran leader vows faith in Khomeini 10 years after death
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* Iranian official calls for end to press
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* Khamenei boosts hardliners in media battle
* Refugee activists released
* Iran's pen association starts activities
* Iranian activists detained in Iraqi Kurds
* Iranian reformist newspaper director released on bail
* Turkish action against Iranians condemned
* Pro-Khatami press under increasing pressure
* Arya managing editor zohdi released on bail
* Tavana to protest
* Legal defense fund for accused journalists
* Mohammadi freed, but aide arrested
* IHRWG condemns attacks on students
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Friday
June 4, 1999
* Stern rebuke for Iran's liberals on 10th anniversary of Khomeini's
death
TEHRAN, June 4 (AFP) - Iran's supreme leader delivered a stern rebuke
to liberal reformers within the Islamic regime Friday in a keynote speech
marking the 10th anniversary of the death of the regime's founder, Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini. "We don't need any lessons about freedom from political
upstarts," Khomeini's successor Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told the hundreds
of thousands of Iranians gathered for the centrepiece anniversary rally
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* Iran leader vows faith in Khomeini 10 years after death
TEHRAN, June 4 (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of people flocked to
the mausoleum of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on Friday to mark the 10th
anniversary of his death as his successor vowed to remain faithful to Khomeini's
legacy. ``The monument built by the imam (Khomeini) is as strong as ever
and has deep roots,'' supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a speech
before leading Friday prayers at the shrine ... FULL
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Thursday
June 3, 1999
* Iranian official calls for end to press crackdown
TEHRAN, June 3 (Reuters) - A senior Iranian culture ministry official
has appealed for an end to harassment of the liberal press by the conservative-led
judiciary after a spate of arrests of newspaper directors, newspapers reported
on Thursday. ``I formally protest the mistreatment of the press corps.
Currently, journalists do not feel safe,'' newspapers quoted the Deputy
Culture Minister on press affairs, Shaban Shahidi-Moaddab, as saying ...
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* Khamenei boosts hardliners in media battle
Prague, 3 June 1999 (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty) -- Iran's Supreme
Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei recently sent a message which can be regarded
as the opening salvo of a new effort by hardliners to tighten their control
over Iran's broadcast and print media. The battle over the media is likely
to gain significance in the coming months as Iran approaches parliamentary
elections due early next year, and control of the media could help decide
the outcome of the polls ... FULL
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* Refugee activists released
New York, June 3, 1999 (Press Release) - The International Federation
of Iranian Refugees (IFIR) is pleased to announce the release of Habibollah
Abdullahi, the IFIR Erbil branch representative, and Abdullah Veissi, a
member of that branch's Executive Committee. Abdullahi and Veissi had been
arrested by the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP) of Iraq on May 30, 1999
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Wednesday
June 2, 1999
* Iran's pen association starts activities
tehran, june 2, irna -- the first post-revolution association of iranian
writers, translators, poets and researchers under the title of 'iran pen
association' started its activities as of may 26. mohammad reza sarshar
(rahgozar), spokesman and a founding member of the association, said the
goal behind founding the association is to defend freedom of expression
and thoughts within the framework of islam and the constitution and support
material and moral rights of the creators of literary works in an effort
to remove existing irregularities ... FULL
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Tuesday
June 1, 1999
* Iranian activists detained in Iraqi Kurds
New York, June 1, 1999 (International Federation of Iranian Refugees)
- On May 30, 1999 Habibollah Abdullahi, the International Federation of
Iranian Refugees (IFIR) Erbil branch representative, and Abdullah Veissi,
a member of that branch's Executive Committee, were arrested by the Kurdish
Democratic Party (KDP) of Iraq ... FULL
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* Iranian reformist newspaper director released on bail
TEHRAN, June 1 (AFP) - Mohammad Reza Zohdi, director of the Iranian
reformist newspaper Arya, was released on bail late Monday from Tehran's
Evin prison, the official IRNA news agency reported. He had been held there
since Saturday for defamation, spreading false information, and publishing
confidential military information ... FULL
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* Turkish action against Iranians condemned
June 1, (Iranians for International cooperation) - ... I write this
letter to register my disgust over a recent border incident where Turkish
military authorities have killed nine innocent Iranian civilians when crossing
the border from Iran and Iraq onto Turkey to register with UNHCR ... FULL TEXT
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Monday
May 31, 1999
* Pro-Khatami press under increasing pressure
TEHRAN, May 30 (AFP) - The brief detention of the head of Iran's official
news agency was portrayed in the Iranian press Sunday as the latest twist
in a campaign of pressure by conservatives against reformist media, less
than a year away from parliamentary elections ... FULL
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*Arya managing editor zohdi released on bail
tehran, may 31, irna -- managing editor of persian language daily 'arya'
mohammad reza zohdi was released from evin prison here this evening after
posting a bail of rls 21 million (usd 70,000) ... FULL
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* Tavana to protest
Tehran, (Iran daily) - The next issue of Tavana will not be published
in order to protest recent decisions by the judiciary against members of
the press ...FULL
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* Legal defense fund for accused journalists
Tehran, (Iran daily) - Journalists are thinking about setting up a legal
defense fund to help those accused of press violations ... FULL PERSIAN IMAGE TEXT
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* Mohammadi freed, but aide arrested
PARIS 30TH MAY (Iran Press Service) In a new, but tactical retreat,
the ruling conservatives freed Sunday Mr. Manouchehr Mohammadi, the secretary-general
of the secular Association of Iranian Nationalist Students (AINS) but arrested
his comrade-in-arms, Mr. Qolamreza Mohajerinezhad, according to reliable
information received from Tehran ... FULL
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* IHRWG condemns attacks on students
30th May 1999 (IHRWG) -- Over the last few days, a number of students
gatherings in Tehran have been attacked by organized groups with links
to factions inside the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI).
As a result, a number of participants have been injured, some very seriously.
Also, the security forces have arrested some of the students ... FULL TEXT
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