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* Protestors attacked, several arrested
* Fundamentalists clash with Tehran university students
* Iran to launch first training for policewomen
* Khatami vows reform two years on
* Rally marks anniversary of reforms
* Reformist MP jailed for threatening conservative
* Iranian speaker warns against unchecked "freedoms"
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Friday
May 28, 1999
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Thursday
May 20, 1999
* MKO sends list of alleged murder victims to UN rights chief
GENEVA, May 27 (AFP) -An Irani resistance group has sent UN human rights
chief Mary Robinson a list of some 47 people it claims were murdered or
abducted by Iran's intelligence ministry, the group said Thursday ...
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* Satellite TV equipment seized in Iran
TEHRAN, May 27 (AFP) -Iranian police seized 855 satellite television
dishes and decoders hidden in a trailer hauling wheat in a southern suburb
of Tehran, Kayhan paper reported Thursday ... FULL
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Wednesday
May 26, 1999
* Protestors attacked, several arrested
May 26, (Alliance for Defense of Human Rights in Iran) - News reports
from Iran indicate that several students, including a student leader, Mr.
Manouchehr Mohammadi Secretary General of the National Association of Iranian
Students and Alumni, have been kidnapped from Tehran University. Their
whereabouts are unknown ... FULL
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Tuesday
May 25, 1999
* Islamic fundamentalists clash with Tehran university students
TEHRAN, May 25 (AFP) - Groups of Islamic fundamentalists clashed with
several hundred pro-reform students during a political gathering at Tehran
university on Tuesday, witnesses said. The gathering, which took place
inside the university campus, was in "defence of political prisoners
and freedom." ... FULL
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* Iran to launch first training for policewomen
May 25, 1999 TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) -- Iran will soon launch its first
training for women police officers, in a move to improve employment opportunities
for women in the Islamic republic, the official IRNA news agency reported
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Monday
May 24, 1999
* Khatami vows reform two years on
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami Sunday vowed to
press on with democratic reform on the second anniversary of his election
but warned that abuse of freedom could undermine clerical rule in the Islamic
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* Rally marks anniversary of reforms
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of local councilors, elected three
months ago in Iran's biggest experiment in grassroots democracy, rallied
in a giant sports stadium Sunday to celebrate the second anniversary of
President Mohammad Khatami's landslide election ... FULL
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* Reformist Iranian MP gets six months for threatening conservative
TEHRAN, May 24 (AFP) - A reformist Iranian MP has been sentenced to
six months in jail for using a gun to threaten a conservative member of
the supervisory boards which oversaw February's local elections, newspapers
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* Iranian speaker warns against unchecked "freedoms"
TEHRAN, May 24 (AFP) - Iran's conservative speaker of parliament, Ali
Akbar Nateq-Nuri, warned Monday that unchecked "freedoms" were
threatening the ideological foundations of the Islamic Revolution ...
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