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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
* US human rights group calls for press freedom in Iran
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Monday
October 11, 1999
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