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* ANALYSIS-Court deals blow to Iran
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* Jury recommends convicting Nouri
* Conservative students demonstrate againt pro-reform students
* Revolution on trial
* Hardline Iranian court ends hearings,
Nouri defiant
* Reformist and conservative students stage demonstrations
* Abdollah Nouri calls for end to silence over past leaders
* Leading Iranian editor's trial continues amid press protests
* Judge jails editror's lawyer
* Press court begins hearings against veteran reformist
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* Adineh's life-time ban reduced to five years
* Leading member of Iran's banned communist party dies in
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* Khatami calls for "culture of criticism"
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Friday
November 12, 1999
* ANALYSIS-Court deals blow to Iran reform movement
TEHRAN, Nov 12 (Reuters) - The conviction of Abdollah Nouri by a hardline
clerical jury has effectively deprived Iran's pro-reform movement of its
leading light ahead of next year's parliamentary elections. The clerics,
all from the hardline faction that dominates the judiciary, also ruled
that there were no mitigating circumstances. However, the judge of the
Special Court for Clergy must still issue a final verdict and pass sentence
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Thursday
November 11, 1999
* Jury recommends convicting Nouri
TEHRAN, Nov 11 (Reuters) - A hardline clerical jury in Iran has recommended
conviction of leading reformist cleric Abdollah Nouri after his trial on
charges of political and religious dissent, the Iranian news agency IRNA
reported on Thursday. It quoted a court statement as saying the jury of
the Special Court for Clergy voted to convict Nouri, a former vice-president,
on 15 unspecified counts and found that there were no mitigating circumstances
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* Conservative students demonstrate againt pro-reform students
TEHRAN, Nov 11 (AFP) - Iranian students from the southwestern city of
Ahvaz will stage a demonstration Thursday in protest against a reformist
student organization for supporting a spirit of dialogue with the US, a
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Wednesday
November 10, 1999
Revolution on trial
Khordad publisher Abdollah Nouri's defends himself in court (PDF
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* Hardline Iranian court ends hearings, Nouri defiant
TEHRAN, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Iran's hardline Special Court for Clergy
on Wednesday wound up hearings in the trial of leading reformist cleric
Abdollah Nouri, charged with political and religious dissent. The court
gave Nouri, a former vice-president, eight days to submit his final written
defence. A verdict from the panel of conservative clerics is due within
a week after that. Nouri has already predicted he will be convicted ...
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Tuesday
November 9, 1999
* Reformist and conservative students stage rival demonstrations
TEHRAN, Nov 9 (AFP) - Reformist and conservative students in Tehran
staged separate demonstrations Tuesday for and against liberalisation of
the press, against a background of judicial action against journalists
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* Abdollah Nouri calls for end to silence over past leaders
TEHRAN, Nov 9 (AFP) - Reformist firebrand Abdollah Nuri broke new ground
in his defiance of Iran's conservatives Tuesday by demanding rehabilitation
of two historic nationalist leaders and "civic rights" for a
disgraced cleric long under house arrest ... FULL
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* Leading Iranian editor's trial continues amid press protests
TEHRAN, Nov 9 (AFP) - Reformist newspaper editor Mashallah Shamsolvaezin
appeared as defiant as ever on the second day of his trial here, as Iran's
journalists protested against continuing crackdowns on the press ... FULL TEXT
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* Judge jails editror's lawyer
TEHRAN, Nov 9 (AFP) - Iran's press court judge jailed a defence lawyer
of reformist newspaper editor Mashallah Shamsolvaezin Tuesday at the end
of the second day of the journalist's trial here. Judge Said Mortazavi
ordered Mohammad Seyfzadeh to prison for five days for contempt of court
as he adjourned the trial until Saturday.... FULL
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Monday
November 8, 1999
* Press court begins hearings against veteran reformist editor
TEHRAN, Nov 8 (AFP) - Veteran reformist newspaper editor Mashallah Shamsolvaezin,
who has repeatedly thumbed his nose at court bans on his titles, went on
trial before Tehran's press court Monday on charges of offending Islam.
Shamsolvaezin was called to answer charges of "insulting Islamic sanctities,
as well as forging news items," state television said ... FULL TEXT
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* Adineh's life-time ban reduced to five years
Tehran, (Hamshahri) - The ban for life issued by the press court against
the respected independent magazine Adineh last winter, has been reduced
to five years upon appeal. However, the new decision will also be appealed,
editor Gholam-Hossein Zakeri said... FULL
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* Leading member of Iran's banned communist party dies in Tehran
TEHRAN, Nov 7 (AFP) - The former secretary general of Iran's banned
communist Tudeh party, Nuredine Kianuri, died Friday at the age of 87 in
Tehran following a heart attack, sources close to him told AFP Sunday ...
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* Khatami calls for "culture of criticism" in Iran
TEHRAN, Nov 8 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami defended his
policy of opening up society, as the conservative courts continued their
clampdown on the moderate press with a high-profile case against a veteran
newspaper editor, Monday's press reported. The "culture of criticism
in society" must be expanded and strengthened, the English-language
Iran News quoted him as saying during a visit to the culture ministry ...
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