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* New press jury elected
* Iran court hears prominent blasphemy case
* Challenging the revolutionary court
* Appeals court to rule next week on former Tehran mayor
* Khatami tours epicenter of student unrest
* First woman editor jailed in Iran out on bail
* Mandela says Iranian Jews will get fair trial
* Abbas Amir-Entezam, has been released from prison
* Court sentences student to two and a half years over July
unrest
* Nuri says Iran hardliners fighting Islam, history
* Iran court orders liberal editor
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Friday
October 22, 1999
* Iran shuts down student paper over attack photos
TEHRAN, Oct 21 (Reuters) - Iranian authorities have closed a student
publication for carrying photos of a bloody police attack on student
dormitories, which sparked widespread unrest in July, a newspaper reported
on Thursday. It was the second recent closure of a student magazine in
Iran, where several moderate dailies have been banned this year ... FULL TEXT
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Thursday
October 21, 1999
* New press jury elected
Tehran (Cinema) - Members of the press jury have been elected for a
new term. With its new members, the jury may not be as harsh toward the
moderate press. But some say there will be no significant change in direction
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Wednesday
October 20, 1999
* Iran court hears prominent blasphemy case
TEHRAN, Oct 21 (Reuters) - Iran's judiciary on Wednesday bore down on
four students and a professor charged with insults against one of Shi'ite
Islam's holiest figures, assembling a special panel of Supreme Court judges
and hinting it may hand down the death penalty. Lined up along one wall
of the crammed, top-floor courtroom were six senior clerics from the Supreme
Court acting as advisers to Judge Saeed Mortezavi, who under Iranian law
doubles as prosecutor ... FULL
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* Challenging the revolutionary court
Ayatollah Jalaledin Taheri, the Friday Prayers leader of Isfahan has
severely attacked the revolutionary court for bringing charges against
Abdollah Nuri, publisher of the moderate Khordad newspaper. Taheri, who
is also Ayatollah Khamenei's representative in Isfahan, has offered to
act as Nuri's lawyer ... FULL
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* Iran appeals court to rule next week on former Tehran mayor
TEHRAN, Oct 20 (AFP) - Former Tehran mayor Gholamhossein Karbaschi,
a close ally of President Mohammad Khatami jailed since last May on corruption
charges, will get a ruling on his appeal next week, judicial officials
said Wednesday. "Tehran's court of appeal will announce its ruling
on the conviction of former mayor Karbaschi on October 30," an advisor
to judiciary chief Ayatollah Mahmud Hashemi-Shahrudi told the official
IRNA news agency ... FULL
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Tuesday
October 19, 1999
* Khatami tours epicenter of student unrest
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's President Mohammad Khatami Tuesday toured
the Tehran University student hostels, scene of a bloody police attack
on pro-democracy demonstrators three months ago, state radio reported ...
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* First woman editor jailed in Iran out on bail
TEHRAN, Oct 18 (AFP) - The first woman newspaper editor jailed in Iran,
Jaleh Oskui, has been released on bail, a journalist on her weekly Penj-Shanbeh-ha
(Thursdays) told AFP Monday. Oskui, 40, who was jailed last week for repeatedly
publishing "outrageous" articles, was released late Saturday
"after providing some 83,000 dollars bail," the journalist said
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* Mandela says Iranian Jews will get fair trial
JERUSALEM, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Former South African President Nelson
Mandela said on Tuesday he was satisfied that 13 Iranian Jews arrested
on charges of spying for Israel would receive a fair trial ... FULL
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Monday
October 18, 1999
* Abbas Amir-Entezam, has been released from prison
TEHRAN, Oct 18 (AFP) - A liberal Iranian opposition figure, Abbas Amir-Entezam,
has been released from prison after spending most of the past two decades
years in jail, the government-run Iran newspaper reported Monday ... FULL TEXT
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* Court sentences student to two and a half years over July unrest
TEHRAN, Oct 17 (AFP) - Tehran's revolutionary tribunal has sentenced
a student to two and half years in jail in connection with six days of
bloody riots which rocked the capital in July, a reformist daily reported
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* Nuri says Iran hardliners fighting Islam, history
TEHRAN, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Reformist cleric Abdollah Nouri on Monday
dismissed any attempt to halt Iran's move toward greater pluralism as a
vain effort to stem the tide of Islam and world history ... FULL
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* Iran court orders liberal editor jailed
TEHRAN, Oct 16 (Reuters) - An Iranian court on Saturday ordered the
arrest of a leading pro-reform editor whose newspaper was recently banned
for questioning Islamic principles, his colleagues said ... FULL
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