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November 22-26, 1999 / Azar 1-5, 1378
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* Appeal court upholds death sentences
* Court hands down jail term
* Accused Jews 'may be freed'
* Thousands rally on anniversary of dissidents'
murders
* Hardliners warn of more murders
* Defiant cleric shakes Iran establishment
* UN asks for "fair" trial for Iranian Jews
* Interior minister promises "healthy" elections
in February
* Two armed robbers sentenced to amputations
* Baha'is have rights too
* British MP voices concern over situation of Bahais in
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* Moderate culture minister "not optimistic" over
Nuri verdict
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Wednesday
November 24, 1999
* Students under the death threat
November 23, (Iranian Human Rights Working Group) -- According to reports
in the press, three of the people arrested after the July unrest at university
campuses in Iran are still facing the death sentence ... The Iranian Human
Rights Working Group is gravely concerned about the fate of these students
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Tuesday
November 23, 1999
* Appeal court upholds death sentences
November 23, (BBC) -- The Iranian appeal court has reportedly upheld
death sentences on three alleged ringleaders of the violent unrest which
swept Tehran in the summer. Another alleged instigator of the disturbances
is said to have been acquitted on the grounds of insanity. A revolutionary
court had sentenced the four to death in September for their role in two
days of riots that followed a wave of pro-democracy demonstrations in July
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* Court hands down jail term to fourth person over "blasphemous"
play
TEHRAN, Nov 23 (AFP) - An Iranian press court handed down a four-month
jail sentence Tuesday to a student charged with publishing an allegedly
blasphemous play in a university magazine, judicial sources said. Hamed
Ahangari became the fourth person to wind up with a prison sentence over
the play, which outraged conservatives by appearing to mock the belief
of Iran's Shiite Muslims in a "hidden" imam who will return to
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* Accused Jews 'may be freed'
November 23, (AFP) -- The head of Iran's Revolutionary Court, Gholamhossein
Rahbarpour, has said some of 13 Iranian Jews charged with spying for Israel
may be freed in the national interest ... FULL
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Monday
November 22, 1999
* Thousands rally in Tehran on anniversary of dissidents' murders
TEHRAN, Nov 21 (AFP) - Thousands of Iranians held a rally here Sunday
in memory of a pro-nationalist couple slain last year during a string of
murders of leading dissidents that authorities blamed on rogue members
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* Hardliners warn of more murders
TEHRAN, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Members of a shadowy Iranian group have threatened
to resume their campaign of violence, including the murder of dissidents,
the leading reformist daily Khordad reported on Monday ... FULL
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* Defiant cleric shakes Iran establishment
TEHRAN, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Iranian dissident theologian Abdollah Nouri
says duty to God and country drove him to risk both his liberty and his
immediate political future in a landmark challenge to Iran's conservative
establishment. Sitting serenely in his office, Nouri told Reuters in an
interview he was indifferent to his likely jail sentence ... FULL
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Friday
November 19, 1999
* UN asks for "fair" trial for Iranian Jews
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 19 (AFP) - The United Nations (UN) General Assembly
has asked Iran to guarantee a "fair and transparent trial" for
the 13 Iranian Jews accused by Tehran of spying. The UN General Assembly
Thursday evening adopted a resolution condemning human rights violations
alleged to have perpetrated by Iran, as reported by the delegates of several
European nations and the United States ... FULL
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* Interior minister promises "healthy" elections in February
TEHRAN, Nov 19 (AFP) - Interior Minister Abdolvahed Musavi Lari has
promised to do all he can to ensure that next year's parliamentary elections
will be "healthy," the official IRNA news agency reported Friday
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* Two armed robbers sentenced to hand, foot amputations, lashes and
prison
TEHRAN, Nov 18 (AFP) - Two convicted armed robbers have been sentenced
by a revolutionary court in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz to have
the right hand and left foot of each amputated, the Kayhan paper reported
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Thursday
November 18, 1999
* Baha'is have rights too
Baha'is have rights too... - President Khatami
November 1999, (Iranian Human Rights
Working Group) -- President Khatami's pronouncement, in his Paris press
conference on Friday 29th October, on the plight of Baha'is in Iran is
by far the most encouraging statement made by an Iranian high official
of the Islamic Republic in this regard since the demise of the provisional
government of Mehdi Bazargan in 1979. However, his statement fell far short
of acknowledging the basic rights to religious freedom enshrined in Article
18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to which Iran is a state
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* British MP voices concern over situation of Bahais in Iran
TEHRAN, Nov 18 (AFP) - A member of a visiting British parliamentary
delegation has warned the situation of adherents of the Bahai faith in
Iran could be an "obstacle" for improved Tehran-London ties,
a press report said Thursday ... FULL
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* Moderate culture minister "not optimistic" over Nuri
verdict
TEHRAN, Nov 18 (AFP) - Iran's moderate culture minister fears the outcome
of the controversial trial of leading reformist Abdollah Nuri on charges
of offending Islam, press reports said Thursday ... FULL
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