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* Neshat: The beat goes on
* New justice chief faces reform battle
* Reformist Iranian editors produce new daily
* Neshat director summoned
* Iran Jewish body questions spying charges
* U.S. studies religious persecution
* Sahabi in court
* Academics speak out in defense of Kadivar
* Iran Jewish group urges justice for spying suspects
* Judiciary calls on moderate minister to tolerate criticism
* Students seek inquiry into Tabriz violence
* Iraqi national to be hanged in Iran
* Editor vows to re-open women's paper
* Pressures of the press
* MKO supporters protest in Hague
* Banned Iran paper vows new daily
* Islamic Iran re-examines role of violence
* Jackson may help Iranian Jews
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Friday
September 10, 1999
* U.S. Department of State Report:
International Religious Freedom for 1999: Iran
Although the [Iranian] Constitution states that "the investigation
of individuals' beliefs is forbidden" and that "no one may be
molested or taken to task simply for holding a certain belief," the
adherents of religions not specifically protected under the Constitution
do not enjoy freedom of activity. This situation most directly affects
the 300,000 to 350,000 followers of the Baha'i Faith in the country ...
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Thursday
September 9, 1999
* Neshat: The beat goes on
The moderate Neshat newspaper is back on Iran's newsstands, but
under a new name after it was banned just a few days ago. It is now called
Akhbar Eghtesad (Economic News), with an emphasis on economic news.
But it still carries a good amount of political commentary, as well as
the stinging satire of Ebrahim Nabavi. Here are two columns from the first
issue explaining the paper's goals (in Persian):
-- Reza Jalaie-Pour ... Civil
society & the economy
-- Ahmad Safaie-Far ... Words
on our first day
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* New justice chief faces reform battle
TEHRAN, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Iran's new justice chief has purged the judiciary
of leading hardliners but legal analysts say he faces an uphill struggle
to fulfil his pledge to pull judges out of politics and refashion the courts
as an independent branch of government. Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi,
a little known but scholarly cleric, inherited a judiciary seen by many
Iranians as more interested in furthering the conservatives' political
agenda than in dispensing justice ... FULL
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* Reformist Iranian editors produce new daily
TEHRAN, Sept 9 (Reuters) - A team of maverick reformist editors on Thursday
brought out a new pro-reform newspaper, their fifth in less than two years,
after hardliners closed their latest popular daily ... FULL
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* Neshat director summoned
TEHRAN, Sept 9 (AFP) - Iran's conservative-controlled press court has
summoned the director of a pro-reform daily, banned this week on charges
of publishing "anti-Islamic" articles, press reports said Thursday
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* Iran Jewish body questions spying charges
TEHRAN, Sept 9 (Reuters) - A Jewish community group in Iran has questioned
espionage charges levelled against 13 Iranian Jews arrested for allegedly
spying for Israel, a newspaper reported on Thursday. The daily Entekhab
quoted Tehran's Jewish community council as saying in a statement: ``Spying
requires certain capacities and equipment, a condition not fulfilled by
the accused, according to the knowledge that we have about most of them.''
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* U.S. studies religious persecution
Sept 9, 1999, WASHINGTON (AP) - A U.S State Department report released
Thursday found evidence of widespread religious persecution in Iraq, Iran
and Afghanistan, all under varying degrees of authoritarian rule, and also
uncovered religious discrimination in some democratic countries, including
Israel and Indin ... FULL
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Wednesday
September 8, 1999
* Sahabi in court
Sept 7, (Iran News) - Yadollah Sahabi has been summoned to the court
as the accused, in relation to the publication of his letter to the Leader
in Neshat daily. Yadollah Sahabi, a co-founder of Freedom Movement of Iran
(FMI) in early 1960's, in a letter to the Supreme Leader gave him recommendations
on improving the current situation of the country. The letter was published
by Neshat daily Sep. 1.
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* Academic leaders speak out in defense of embattled Iranian scholar
(New York, September 7, 1999, Human Rights Watch) -- In an open letter
today to the new head of the Iranian judiciary, the Human Rights Watch
Academic Freedom Committee called for immediate review of the arrest and
conviction of Mohsen Kadivar. Noting the recent appointment of Seyyed M.H.
Shahroudi, considered a reform-minded legal scholar, to head the judiciary,
Mr. Saunders added: "Now is the time for the judiciary to assert its
independence by re-opening the case and seeing to it that Kadivar gets
a fair trial." ... FULL
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* Iran Jewish group urges justice for spying suspects
TEHRAN, Sept 7 (Reuters) - A Jewish community group in Iran has urged
authorities to ensure a fair trial for 13 Iranian Jews arrested on charges
of spying for Israel, the official news agency IRNA reported on Tuesday
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* Judiciary calls on moderate minister to tolerate criticism
TEHRAN, Sept 8 (AFP) - Iran's conservative judiciary on Wednesday called
on moderate Culture Minister Ataollah Mohajerani to accept criticism, following
the minister's complaint over a misrepresentation of his meeting with the
new judiciary chief ... FULL
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* Students seek inquiry into Tabriz violence
TEHRAN, Sept 8 (Reuters) - A leading Iranian student group has demanded
an investigation into violent attacks by hardliners on pro-democracy student
protesters in northwestern Iran in July, newspapers reported on Wednesday
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* Iraqi national to be hanged in Iran
TEHRAN, Sept 8 (Reuters) - An Iraqi national has been sentenced to be
hanged in Iran, convicted of carrying out bombing attacks in Tehran 18
years ago, a newspaper reported on Wednesday. Jomhuri-ye Eslami quoted
Tehran Revolutionary Court chief Gholamhossein Rahbarpour as saying that
the unnamed prisoner was a member of the Iraqi secret service ... FULL TEXT
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Tuesday
September 7, 1999
* Iranian editor vows to re-open women's paper
September 4, 1999 (The Canberra Times) - The editor of a banned Iranian
women's daily has told The Canberra Times she hopes to re-open her paper.
Faezeh Hashemi, licensee and editor-in chief of Zan (woman" in Farsi),
the first women's daily newspaper in her country, was in Canberra yesterday
to visit the Australian Institute of Sport and the Australian Sports Commission.
She also took a look at how an Australian daily newspaper operates ...
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Pressures of the press
The New York Times
Sunday September 5, 199
As editor of China's leading English-language newspaper, Jonathan
Fenby developed a reputation for independent reporting and frank debate.
Last month he was fired. Hamid Reza Jalaipur founded Iran's first prodemocracy
newspaper. He was jailed last year for printing an editorial critical of
the Government. Herewith, the two discuss what it's like to put out a newspaper
where the press is not free ... FULL
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* MKO supporters protest in Hague
Sept 7, THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - Thousands of Iranian refugees
and dissidents marched in The Hague today to denounce Tehran's clerical
regime and rally support for the pro-democracy movement in Iran. Supporters
of the National Council of Resistance of Iran made speeches, chanted and
waved Iranian flags outside the Parliament building before marching through
the streets. Organizers said up to 8,000 protesters took part; police,
who said there was no violence, put the number closer to 3,000 ... FULL
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Monday
September 6, 1999
* Banned Iran paper denounces "political" ploy, vows new
daily
TEHRAN, Sept 6 (AFP) - The editors of a pro-reform Iranian daily closed
by the conservative courts denounced the ban Monday as a political ploy
to silence Iran's reform movement and vowed to start another paper immediately.
Editors from Neshat said Sunday's "illegal" closure, the fourth
time a leading pro-reform paper has been shut down this year, was purposely
engineered by conservatives ahead of February's key parliamentary elections
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* Islamic Iran re-examines role of violence
TEHRAN, Sept 6 (Reuters) - An unprecedented debate is sweeping Iran
over the role of violence in upholding religious and revolutionary values
in the aftermath of pro-democracy unrest and the use of shadowy pressure
groups to suppress it ... FULL
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* Jackson may help Iranian Jews
NEW YORK (AP) - The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who has often negotiated freedom
for foreign-held captives, says he's now trying to help 13 Iranian Jews
awaiting trial for espionage in Iran ... FULL
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