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* Khatami pledges "just and fair"
trial for 13 Iranian Jews
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* Thirteen years for "main instigator"
of July unrest
* Verdict on ``blasphemous'' play expected soon
* Families of 13 Jews can visit them: Khatami
* Chirac raises plight of arrested Jews with Khatami
* Top judge seeks shorter prison terms
* Scientists call for release of students
* Nouri says only prison can silence him
* Nouri faces hardline clerical court
* Former Hanging Judge Now With Reformers
* Court prepares landmark case against reformer
* Nouri takes message to hardline heartland
* Court jails cleric over protest letter- paper
* High court rejects ex-mayor's appeal - papers
* Khatami sues hardline newspaper
* Iranian refugee in coma - rights group
* Iran shuts down student paper over attack photos
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Friday
October 29, 1999
* Khatami pledges "just and fair" trial for 13 Iranian
Jews
PARIS, Oct 29 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami pledged Friday
a "just and fair" trial for 13 Iranian Jews imprisoned on charges
of spying for Israel and said their rights would be protected. "Be
assured, the trial will be just and fair," Khatami told reporters
at the end of his landmark three-day visit to France. "They can see
their attorneys and families... and their rights will not be trampled over."
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Thursday
October 28, 1999
* Thirteen years prison for "main instigator" of July unrest
TEHRAN, Oct 28 (AFP) - Iran's revolutionary court has jailed for 13
years one of the main instigators of the violent unrest that spread across
Iranian cities in July, a press report said Thursday ... FULL
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* Verdict on ``blasphemous'' play expected soon
TEHRAN, Oct 28 (Reuters) - An Iranian court is expected to issue a verdict
on Saturday against three students and a professor held in connection with
a satirical play allegedly insulting a Shi'ite Moslem saint, the judge
said on Thursday. Hardline judge Saeed Mortazavi told reporters that his
verdict would be delivered to the defendants, still in jail, and their
lawyers, on Saturday before being released to the media ... FULL
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* Families of 13 imprisoned Iranian Jews can visit them: Khatami
PARIS, Oct 28 (AFP) - The families of 13 Iranian Jews imprisoned on
charges of spying for Israel will be allowed to visit them, Iranian President
Mohammad Khatami pledged in a meeting with the French Senate speaker, a
French Jewish official said Thursday ... FULL
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Wednesday
October 27, 1999
* Chirac raises plight of arrested Jews with Iranian president
PARIS, Oct 27 (AFP) - French President Jacques Chirac raised the plight
of 13 Iranian Jews facing a possible death sentence over charges of spying
for Israel, during talks with Iranian President Mohammad Khatami here Wednesday
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* Top judge seeks shorter prison terms
TEHRAN, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Iran's new judiciary chief has criticised
heavy prison terms and asked judges to be more lenient, especially towards
first-time offenders and women, newspapers reported on Wednesday ...
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* Scientists call for release of students
About Iran... has received the following letter from the Committee of
Concerned Scientists in defense of detained Iranian students and other
pro-democracy students which is addressed to Secretary General Kofi Annan
and High Commissioner Mary Robinson. Please circulate this letter as widely
as possible. Attached is the letter we faxed today on behalf of the suffering
students in Iran ... FULL
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Tuesday
October 26, 1999
* Nouri says only prison can silence him
TEHRAN, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Reformist Abdollah Nouri defied his conservative
critics on Tuesday, warning Iran's hardline clerical court on the eve of
his dissent trial that the only way to silence him was to throw him in
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* Nouri faces hardline clerical court
TEHRAN, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Reformist cleric Abdollah Nouri, a vanguard
figure in Iran's pro-democracy camp, will on Saturday appear before the
Special Court for Clergy to answer charges of political and religious dissent
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* Iran's Former Hanging Judge Now Sides With Reformers
By JOHN F. BURNS
The New York Times
October 23, 1999
QUM, Iran, Oct. 18 Much about Ayatollah Sadegh Khalkhali these days
his simple white smock, his bare feet, his shuffling gait, his concern
for his visitors' well-being -- speaks of an almost penitential gentleness.
Long gone are his days as the chief judge of Iran's revolutionary courts,
when his name was enough to strike terror, his word sufficient to set execution
squads to work with their gallows, their shootings and their stonings ...
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Monday
October 25, 1999
* Court prepares landmark case against reformer
TEHRAN, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Leading reformist Abdollah Nouri goes on
trial later this week before a panel of hardline clerics in a case that
will help shape Iran's political and religious future. Nouri, a mid-ranking
Shi'ite Moslem cleric and close ally of President Mohammad Khatami, faces
charges of defaming late revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini,
challenging Islamic principles and backing renewed ties to Iran's arch-foe,
the United States ... FULL
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* Nouri takes message to hardline heartland
QOM, Iran, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Cleric and leading reformist Abdollah
Nouri on Friday carried his radical doctrine of religious pluralism to
this holy Shi'ite city, spiritual home to Iran's conservative establishment
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* Court jails cleric over protest letter- paper
TEHRAN, Oct 25 (Reuters) - A hardline Iranian court has jailed an outspoken
reformist cleric for one year for signing a petition against the house
arrest of Iran's leading dissident clergyman, a newspaper reported on Monday
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* Iran high court rejects ex-mayor's appeal - papers
TEHRAN, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Iran's supreme court has undercut a bid to
release Tehran's maverick moderate former mayor, jailed after a graft conviction,
newspapers reported on Monday ... FULL
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* Khatami sues hardline newspaper
TEHRAN, Oct 25 (Reuters) - The head of Iran's leading hardline newspaper
was summoned to court on Monday on a complaint by President Mohammad Khatami's
office over the alleged publication of confidential material ... FULL
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* Iranian refugee in coma - rights group
October 25, 1999 (International Federation of Iranian Refugees) -- Ali
Bordbar (Case I. 16264), a 54 year old Iranian refugee claimant who has
been in Pakistan since 1996, has been on hunger strike for the past 48
days in protest to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees' (UNHCR)
outright indifference to his fate ... FULL
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