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June 21-25, 1999 / Khordad 31-Tir 4, 1378
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* French Jewish groups call for new
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* Iranian reformist publisher is interrogated
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* Fear for Safety of Journalists
* Coroner says jailed suspected killer died of arsenic poisoning
* Iran appoints Shi'ite cleric as new top judge
* Iran: Chief suspect's suicide will not affect investigation
* Jews detained in Iran referred to revolutionary court
* France Says Iran Fabricated Charges Against Jews
* Moderate
press puzzles over suicide
* Intelligence minister slams outcry
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Friday
June 25, 1999
* French Jewish groups call for new protests for release of Iran
Jews
PARIS, June 25 (AFP) - French Jewish organizations on Friday called
for renewed protests nationwide to demand the release of 13 Iranian Jews
whose arrest on charges of spying has provoked an outcry. They said that
13 public figures would chain themselves in front of the Iranian embassy
in Paris on June 29 to denounce the arrest of the 13 Iranian Jews ...
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Thursday
June 24, 1999
* Iranian reformist publisher is interrogated in court
Teheran (dpa) - An Iranian reformist publisher was interrogated Wednesday
for several hours by a Teheran court over having expressed doubts regarding
Islamic values, informed sources said. Saaid Hajarian, the publisher of
the liberal daily newspaper Emruz, was interrogated by a court over ``having
expressed doubts'' over Islamic values in reply to a reader's question,
the sources said ... FULL
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Wednesday
June 23, 1999
* Fear for Safety of Journalists
June 22, (Amnesty International) - Amnesty International is concerned
for the safety of Heshmatollah Tabarzadi, editor-in-chief of the weekly
newsletter Hoveyat-e-Khish (Our Identity), and Hossein Kashani, its director,
who have been arrested after questioning about publishing information contrary
to "public order and the public interest". On 16 June 1999, Hossein
Kashani was summoned to a tribunal at the office of the revolutionary prosecutor,
in Evin prison, and arrested after questioning ... FULL
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* Coroner says jailed suspected killer died of arsenic poisoning
June 23, BBC Monitoring - Iranian TV) - As you have heard in the news,
one of the agents of the recent suspicious killings, named Sa'id Emami,
has committed suicide. In order to clarify the matter and provide you with
more information, the correspondents from the Central News Unit talked
to the coroner and the doctor who, with his colleagues, made an extensive
effort to save Sa'id Emami's life ... FULL
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Tuesday
June 22, 1999
* Iran appoints Shi'ite cleric as new top judge
TEHRAN, June 22 (Reuters) - Iran has appointed a founder of an Iraqi
opposition group as head of its judiciary, current judiciary chief Ayatollah
Mohammad Yazdi said on Tuesday. Yazdi, quoted by the evening daily Kayhan,
said he would hand over the post in two months to Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi,
who in the early 1980s helped found the Supreme Council of the Islamic
Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), the main Shi'ite Moslem group fighting the
government of President Saddam Hussein ... FULL
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* Iran: Chief suspect's suicide will not affect investigation
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Foreigners trying to tarnish Iran's
image aided in a string of murders late last year of dissident intellectuals,
the military prosecutor said Tuesday. The case, which shocked the nation
because of acknowledged involvement by Iranian intelligence agents, made
headlines again when the top suspect reportedly killed himself Saturday
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* Jews detained in Iran referred to revolutionary court
TEHRAN, June 22 (AFP) - The case of 13 Iranian Jews, whose arrest on
spy charges has provoked an outcry around the world, has been referred
to a revolutionary court in the southern city of Shiraz, a judicial official
told Kayhan newspaper Tuesday. "The case of Israel's spies is being
examined by a revolutionary court in Shiraz," the head of the provincial
judiciary, Mohamamd Karimi, said ... FULL
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* France Says Iran Fabricated Charges Against Jews
PARIS, June 22 (Reuters) - French Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine said
on Tuesday charges of spying against 13 Iranian Jews were fabricated and
part of an internal struggle among Iran's leadership. "We can ascribe
no credit to these accusations which were...presumably fabricated after
the arrests," Vedrine told the National Assembly at question time
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Monday
June 21, 1999
* Moderate Iranian press puzzles over suicide
of murders' mastermind
TEHRAN, June 21 (AFP) - The mastermind of last
year's murders of Iranian dissidents was identified as a former intelligence
official on Monday as the moderate press here raised a number of questions
about his suicide. Saeed Emami, also known as Saaed Eslami, committed suicide
by swallowing "vajebi," a highly toxic powder mostly used for
hair-removal in Iran, while in the public bath of a prison in the capital
on Saturday ... FULL
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* Intelligence minister slams outcry over arrested
Jews
TEHRAN, June 21 (AFP) - Iranian Intelligence Minister
Ali Yunesi Monday attacked the "hullaballoo" raised about the
arrest of 13 Iranian Jews on spying charges. "They were arrested a
long time ago, but we did not want to impede the course of the inquiry
by making a public announcement, but international Zionism published the
news," he said, quoted on state television. He added that the case
had been submitted to the courts ... FULL
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