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* Maverick cleric says Iran can't ignore
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* Nuri vows to defend rights
* Shamsolvaezin, editor of Neshat, arrested
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* UN says freedoms of press & expression decreasing in
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* Students protest against mounting press clampdown
* Nouri opens defence in clerical court
* Iran clerics group backs reformist colleague
* Young Iran dramatist lands in big political drama
* U.S. says efforts under way on behalf of Iran Jews
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Friday
November 5, 1999
* Iranian hunger striker in Pakistan gets heard
November 3, (CHAIR) -- Ali Bordbar (Case I. 16264), a 54 year old Iranian
refugee claimant who had been on hunger strike for 50 days in protest
to the UNHCR's outright indifference to his fate was granted an interview
two days after IFIR's press release and urgent action on his fate. Fore
more information, contact IFIR, GPO, POB 7051, NYC 10116. Tel: 212-747-1046.
Fax: 212-425-7260. E-mail: chairngo@aol.com.
Thursday
November 4, 1999
* Maverick cleric says Iran can't ignore US forever
TEHRAN, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Maverick Iranian cleric Abdollah Nouri on
Thursday told a court trying him for political and religious dissent that
Iran could no longer ignore the United States' position as biggest player
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Wednesday
November 3, 1999
* Nuri vows to defend rights
TEHRAN, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Maverick Iranian reformist Abdollah Nouri,
on trial for political and religious dissent, pledged in court on Wednesday
to defend citizens' constitutional rights. ``I will defend the constitutional
rights of the people with all my power,'' Nouri said, defying continuous
interruptions by the judge of the hardline Special Court for Clergy ...
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Tuesday
November 2, 1999
* Shamsolvaezin, editor of Neshat, arrested
TEHRAN, Nov 2 (AFP) - Iran's press court finally arrested veteran reformist
newspaper editor Mashallah Shamsolvaezin Tuesday on a warrant issued more
than two weeks ago and jailed him pending trial on November 8, his lawyer
said. The move against Shamsolvaezin, who has repeatedly thumbed his nose
at the courts by bringing new titles to the newsstands to replace banned
newspapers, came as the same court jailed three student writers for blasphemy
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* Press court jails students for "blasphemous" play: radio
TEHRAN, Nov 2 (AFP) - Iran's press court handed down three year jail
sentences to two students charged with publishing an allegedly blasphemous
play in a university magazine Tuesday, Iranian radio said. A third student
was given a suspended sentence and a university professor was pardoned,
the radio said ... FULL
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* UN says freedoms of press & expression decreasing in Iran
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 1 (AFP) - Freedoms of the press, expression and
association are on the decline in Iran since the repression in July of
student protests against the current regime, the United Nations said in
a report released Monday ... FULL
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* Students protest against mounting press clampdown
TEHRAN, Nov 2 (AFP) - Some 600 students demonstrated in the provinces
against the mounting clampdown by the conservative courts on Iran's fledgling
reformist press, the government-run Iran paper reported Tuesday. "Some
600 male and female students from the Bu-Ali Sina and medical sciences
universities staged a demonstration Sunday" in the western city of
Hamedan, the paper said ... FULL
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Monday
November 1, 1999
* Nouri opens defence in clerical court
TEHRAN, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Outspoken Iranian reformist Abdollah Nouri
on Monday opened his defence against charges of political and religious
dissent that are expected to derail his campaign to become speaker of parliament.
Nouri sat silently in the Tehran Special Court for Clergy as his lawyer,
fellow cleric Mohsen Rahami, challenged libel charges presented by the
chief of Iran's security police and the publisher of an obscure weekly
as ``baseless.'' ... FULL
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* Iran clerics group backs reformist colleague
TEHRAN, Oct 30 (Reuters) - A group of Islamic scholars in Iran have
voiced support for a maverick reformist cleric accused of political and
religious dissent, and questioned the legality of the hardline court which
began his trial on Saturday ... FULL
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* Young Iran dramatist lands in big political drama
TEHRAN, Oct 31 (Reuters) - An Iranian student seeking to dramatise his
deep religious idealism in a small campus play has found himself at the
centre of a wider political drama and facing an uncertain future. An Iranian
court is due to issue verdict on Tuesday after a trial earlier this month
of the author, Abbas Nemati, and three others held for allegedly insulting
a Shi'ite Moslem saint in a satirical sketch published in an obscure university
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* U.S. says efforts under way on behalf of Iran Jews
JERUSALEM, Nov 1 (Reuters) - A senior U.S. official said clandestine
efforts were taking place on behalf of a group of Iranian Jews detained
in Iran on charges of spying for Israel. ``Suffice to say that there is
a great deal going on behind the scenes including if I may say with the
French, and the Germans, and the British and others who have much closer
ties to Iran than we do,'' U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Stuart Eizenstat
said late on Sunday ... FULL
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