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* Amnesty calls for judicial reform
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* Iran hands down 21 jail terms over
provincial unrest
* Amnesty International slams Iran death sentences
* EU assembly urges Iran to suspend death sentences
* Greens call on Austrian president to cancel Iran visit
* Amir Entezam's letter to U.N. rights chief
* EU to urge Iran to reprieve condemned students
* Death sentences condemned
* Amnesty's urgent appeal on death sentences
* Iran's reformers decry secret death sentences
* Reformers lash out at surprise death sentences over
July unrest
* Head of banned Iranian paper to stand trial next
week
* Iran Jewish MP says community worried over arrests
* Iran rejects U.S. report on religious intolerance
* International Religious Freedom for 1999: Iran
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Friday
September 17, 1999
* Amnesty calls for judicial reform
Sept 16, (Amnesty International ) -- Amnesty International today condemned
the death sentences passed against four people arrested in connection with
student demonstrations in Iran in July 1999 and called for the immediate
halt of trials held in secrecy. "The trial appears to have been conducted
in complete secrecy and with no opportunity for a proper appeal procedure.
We are calling for immediate commutation of the death sentences, urgent
clarification of the names of those sentenced, fair re-trials and the release
of all those held for their peaceful participation in the demonstrations,"
said Amnesty International ... FULL
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Thursday
September 16, 1999
* Iran hands down 21 jail terms over provincial unrest
TEHRAN, Sept 16 (AFP) - An Iranian revolutionary court has sentenced
21 people to prison in connection with July's bloody unrest in the provinces,
including some linked to the outlawed opposition, newspapers reported Thursday.
The 21 were given prison sentences between three months and nine years
for being the main instigators of the disturbances in the provincial capital
of Tabriz, which erupted along with six days of riots in Tehran, the Hamshahri
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* Amnesty International slams Iran death sentences
LONDON, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Amnesty International condemned on Thursday
death sentences passed against four people arrested in connection with
student demonstrations in Iran last July. The London-based human rights
organisation called for the immediate halt of trials held in secrecy in
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* EU assembly urges Iran to suspend death sentences
STRASBOURG, France, Sept 16 (Reuters) - The European Parliament called
on Iran on Thursday to suspend death sentences against four alleged leaders
of student pro-democracy protests in July ... FULL
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* Greens call on Austrian president to cancel Iran visit
VIENNA, Sept 16 (AFP) - The leader of Austria's Greens called on President
Thomas Klestil Thursday to cancel a planned trip to Iran next week because
of death sentences handed down there against four leaders of recent pro-democracy
demonstrations ... FULL
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* Amir Entezam's letter to U.N. rights chief
About Iran... has received the following translated text of a letter
written to Ms. Mary Robinson, the United Nations High Commissioner on Human
Rights, by Mr. Abbass Amir-Entezam, the Islamic Republic's longest held
prisoner of conscience (more than 18 years!) from the Committee in Defense
of Abbass Amir-Entezam in New York ... FULL
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Wednesday
September 15, 1999
* EU to urge Iran to reprieve condemned students
LONDON, Sept 15 (Reuters) - The European Union is to urge Iran not to
execute four alleged leaders of student pro- democracy protests last July,
EU diplomats said on Wednesday. The head of Tehran's Revolutionary Courts,
Gholamhossein Rahbarpour, disclosed in a weekend newspaper interview that
four accused ringleaders in the turmoil had been tried and sentenced to
die. The Supreme Court had confirmed two of the execution orders and two
more were under judicial review, he said ... FULL
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Tuesday
September 14, 1999
* Death sentences condemned
New York, September 14, 1999 (Human Rights Watch) -- The head of Tehran's
revolutionary Court has announced that four as yet unnamed people have
been sentenced to death in relation to student demonstrations there last
month. Human Rights Watch today called for the retrial of the four in a
public court and with full access to the procedural safeguards set out
in international law. It said trials before the Revolutionary Courts do
not conform with international standards for fair trial ... FULL TEXT
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Monday
September 13, 1999
* Amnesty's urgent appeal on death sentences
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* Iran's reformers decry secret death sentences
TEHRAN, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Pro-reform newspapers in Iran voiced dismay
on Monday that a Revolutionary Court had met in secret to sentence four
people to death for their role in July's pro-democracy unrest. Several
dailies accused the conservative court of mishandling the case for political
ends ... FULL
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* Reformers lash out at surprise death sentences over July unrest
TEHRAN, Sept 13 (AFP) - Iranian reformers lashed out Monday at the head
of Tehran's revolutionary court after his shock announcement in a newspaper
interview Sunday of four death sentences handed down in connection with
July's student riots ... FULL
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* Head of banned Iranian paper to stand trial next week
TEHRAN, Sept 13 (AFP) - The trial of the director of Iran's Neshat newspaper,
banned for publishing "anti-Islamic" articles, will begin in
the press court next week, justice officials said Monday. Latif Safari
will appear next Monday to answer 73 charges in a public trial in the presence
of a jury, Iran's justice department said in a statement carried by the
official IRNA news agency ... FULL
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* Iran Jewish MP says community worried over arrests
TEHRAN, Sept 13 (Reuters) - The arrest of 13 Iranian Jews on charges
of spying for Israel has caused deep concern in Iran's Jewish community,
the representative of the country's Jews in parliament said in remarks
published on Monday. ``The arrest of a number of Jews has filled the Jewish
community with unease and anxiety,'' the daily Resalat quoted MP Manouchehr
Eliasi as telling a parliament session on Sunday ... FULL
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* Iran rejects U.S. report on religious intolerance
TEHRAN, Sept 12 (Reuters) - Iran has dismissed as biased a U.S. human
rights report which criticised Iran for religious intolerance, a newspaper
said on Sunday. ``The U.S. State Department has circulated a biased and
unjust view on the status of religious minorities in the Islamic Republic
of Iran. This is an indication of its ignorance of human rights in this
country,'' the daily Iran News quoted Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza
Asefi as saying ... FULL
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