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October 11-15, 1999 / Mehr 19-23, 1378

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* Prosecutor charges reformist editor
* Hard-liners fight for power
* Culture minister condemns summons
* Iran denies suicide of suspect in dissident murders
* Campus revue "blasphemy" trial next week
* Condemnation of arrest of woman editor
* Khatami aides press for Iran election access
* France to warn Iran on arrested Jews-Vedrine

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* Top Iran reformer says dissent charges 'illegal'
* Second suspect in dissident murders "kills himself"
* Embattled reformers call for press law delay
* Iran jails female editor for first time ever
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October 15, 1999

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October 14, 1999

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Wednesday
October 13, 1999

* Prosecutor charges reformist editor who repeatedly defied court bans

TEHRAN, Oct 13 (AFP) - Iranian prosecutors have formally pressed charges against leading reformist editor Mashallah Shamsolvaezin, who has defied three court-imposed bans on his papers by bringing out new titles, the judiciary announced on Wednesday. "The editor-in-chief of the (now banned) daily Neshat will be prosecuted and tried in the presence of other journalists," the judiciary said in a statement carried by the official IRNA news agency ... FULL TEXT

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* Hard-liners fight for power

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Threatened by presidential reforms, Iranian hard-liners have made an ambitious bid at preserving their power by indicting President Mohammad Khatami's closest ally. A special clerical court that operates behind closed doors indicted Abdollah Nouri on Monday on some of the most serious charges ever brought against a senior politician in Iran's Islamic government. Nouri, a towering figure in the reformist camp and Khatami's right-hand man, was ordered to appear before the court Oct. 20 ... FULL TEXT

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* Culture minister condemns summons against reformist editor

TEHRAN, Oct 13 (AFP) - Iran's Culture Minister Ataollah Mohajerani condemned as "illegal and political" Wednesday a summons from the conservative clergy court to a reformist newspaper editor and former vice-president to answer a host of serious charges. Abdollah Nuri, who heads the leading Khordad daily, has been ordered to appear before the special court for the clergy on October 20, his paper said Tuesday ... FULL TEXT

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* Iran denies suicide of suspect in dissident murders

TEHRAN, Oct 13 (AFP) - Iran's military judiciary denied Wednesday a press report that a second suspect in a wave of murders of dissidents here last year has committed suicide in prison, the IRNA news agency reported. A statement by the military coupled the denial of the report Tuesday in the reformist Azad daily with a warning that the publication of "lies" about the case could lead to prosecution for complicity ... FULL TEXT

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* Tehran campus revue "blasphemy" trial to open next week

TEHRAN, Oct 13 (AFP) - Suspects held over a "blasphemous" play published in a Tehran student revue which outraged conservatives and hardliners here will appear in court next week, the official IRNA news agency reported Wednesday. "The accused from the student magazine Moj (Wave) will be publicly tried on Wednesday before Judicial Section 1,410," a section of the courts reserved for press cases, the news agency said ... FULL TEXT

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* Condemnation of arrest of woman editor by Reporters Sans Frontieres

TEHRAN, Oct 13 (AFP) - Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF), the Paris-based press freedom watchdog, expressed concern Wednesday at the recent arrest of an Iranian woman editor and called on Iran's president to use his influence to have her released. Considering that the journalist had "not undergone a fair trial", RSF said it regarded the arrest "as an arbitrary detention and as a violation of press freedom", in a faxed statement received by AFP here ... FULL TEXT

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* Khatami aides press for Iran election access

TEHRAN, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Senior aides to Iranian President Mohammad Khatami have turned up the heat on conservatives over rules for February's parliamentary polls, in an effort to get more candidates backing the president's reforms on the ballot ... FULL TEXT

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* France to warn Iran on arrested Jews-Vedrine

PARIS, Oct 13 (Reuters) - France plans to tell Iranian President Mohammad Khatami the issue of 13 Iranian Jews accused of spying could stymie his bid to improve ties with the outside world, Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine said on Wednesday ... FULL TEXT

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Tuesday
October 12, 1999

* Top Iran reformer says dissent charges 'illegal'

TEHRAN, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Leading Iranian reformist Abdollah Nouri has denounced his indictment by a Special Court for Clergy on charges of religious and political dissent as ``illegal.'' His condemnation of the court raises the stakes in a struggle between the conservative establishment and moderates backing President Mohammad Khatami ... FULL TEXT

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* Second suspect in Iran dissident murders kills himself in jail: press

TEHRAN, Oct 12 (AFP) - A second suspect in a wave of murders of dissidents here last year has committed suicide in prison, the reformist Azad daily reported Tuesday. The death of Akbar Khosh-Kush, one of 27 people being prosecuted for the murders, has not been confirmed by the authorities, the paper stressed ... FULL TEXT

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* Embattled reformers call for press law delay

TEHRAN, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Twelve Iranian reformist groups have called on parliament to postpone debate for six months on proposed new restrictions on the press, newspapers reported on Saturday ... FULL TEXT

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* Iran jails female editor for first time ever

TEHRAN, Oct 11 (AFP) - Iran has jailed a female newspaper editor for the first time ever after her weekly published "outrageous" stories that offended public morality, the official IRNA news agency said Monday. Jaleh Oskui, head of the Penj-Shanbeh-ha (Thursdays) weekly, was arrested Sunday after the paper's repeated publication of "outrageous" articles that "offended public morality and decency," the news agency said ... FULL TEXT

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* US human rights group calls for press freedom in Iran

NICOSIA, Oct 12 (AFP) - Newspapers and journalists in Iran are under attack, and the government should protect press freedom by enshrining it in law, a prominent US human rights group said Tuesday. "Independent newspaper editors, publishers and journalists ... are suffering arbitrary detention, assault and prosecution," said a report issued by Human Rights Watch ... FULL TEXT

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October 11, 1999

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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 ... FULL TEXT

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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

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