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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 ... FULL TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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 in prison ... FULL TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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 ... FULL TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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 TEXT

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May 10, 1999, (Anout Iran) - Dear Compatriots: One hundred seventy bitter days have passed since the silencing of two shining stars of freedom and liberty of the Iranian nation. In the meantime, the culprits are still free, the wheels of justice are still immobile, and the nation is still waiting [for answers]! ... FULL TEXT

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As of December 31, 1998 (Committee to Protect Journalists) - Since President Muhammad Khatemi took office in August 1997, Iran's press has benefited from his agenda of social and political reforms. Newspapers are now tackling political subjects that would have been unthinkable only a year earlier. But almost as quickly as journalists realized their new freedoms, the press found itself the target of a relentless attacks from hard-line supporters of Iran's spiritual guide Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ... FULL TEXT

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