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Friday
March 26, 1999
* Iran's top judge threatens crackdown on liberals
TEHRAN, March 26 (Reuters) - The conservative head of Iran's judiciary
on Friday threatened a crackdown on liberal critics and the moderate press,
accusing them of seeking to undermine Islam and the 1979 Islamic revolution.
``There is no freedom for you to write and say anything you like. Our people
do not want such freedom if it is against the tenets of Islam,'' Ayatollah
Mohammad Yazdi said in a sermon at Tehran University ... FULL
TEXT... Also: Yazdi's Friday prayer sermon... IN
PERSIAN IMAGE TEXT
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* Journalists: Iran Country Report
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 ... LISTEN
HERE
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Thursday
March 18, 1999
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Wednesday
March 24, 1999
* Khamenei criticizes New Year celebrations
TEHRAN, March 23 (AFP) - Iran's spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
has criticized certain aspects of celebrations of the Iranian new year
and said allowing people to observe a popular spring festival was a mistake.
Khamenei, in remarks reported by Iranian radio, said the Festival of Fire,
in which people jump over bonfires and set off firecrackers, is a "superstitious
festival of which Islam does not approve." ... FULL
TEXT
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Tuesday
March 23, 1999
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Monday
March 22, 1999
* Iranian hard-liners shut down new year's festival
March 22, 1999 TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Revelers heading to a Persian new
year's festival said they were turned away Monday, apparently because Iranian
hard-liners believe the celebration evokes the country's pre-Islamic past.
Nowruz, or new year, festivities at Takht-e-Jamshid attracted about 3,000
people when they opened Sunday, the start of the new year ... FULL TEXT
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Iran Country Report
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 ...
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HERE
Arash Forouhar
Arash Farouhar on Iran's struggle for freedom
Feb 3 1999, (The Washington Post)- Two decades after Iran's Islamic Revolution
scrambled political and religious landscapes of the Middle East and of Muslim
states beyond, Arash Farouhar, 30, the son of Iranian dissidents who were
stabbed to death late last year, offered a glimpse into the unresolved and
heroic struggle for freedom and democracy in his country... FULL TEXT
Letter to UN Human Rights
Comissioner
25th January 1999, (IHRWG) - Dear Mrs. Robinson, we, the Iranian Human
Rights Working Group (IHRWG), would like to strongly urge you to take action
regarding the atmosphere of terror that has engulfed Iran as a result of
the disappearances and extra-judicial killings of dissident intellectuals
in the recent past ... FULL
TEXT
Missing
Missing: Pirouz Davani
A special web page has been created for Pirouz Davani, a political activist
who left his home in Tehran on the 25th of August 1998 and has not been
heard from since. On the 27th of August foreign radio stations quoted reports
that he had been arrested ... GO
TO WEB SITE
Human Rights
New mailing list
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is to address humanitarian issues on the verge of the 21st century. I am
trying to promote it and attract members.
To subscribe, send an email to majordomo@im-ins.com
and type "subscribe ascent" in the body of the message.
Camelia Akbari
Bahai Institute of Higher
Education shut down
"At the end of September 1998 the Iranian government
launched a coordinated attack to shut down the Bahá'í Institute
of Higher Education -- also known as the "Open University" --
by orchestrating the arrests of its most prominent professors and staff
and looting more than 500 homes where the Institute's activities had been
conducted."... FULL
TEXT
Feature
Stoning
Video showing a stonings in Iran in 1991. Extremely disturbing.
Not recommended ... VIDEO CLIP HERE
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