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* Iran: Not all Jewish suspects spies
* Hundreds protest in Paris in support of 13 Iranian Jews
* U.S. Jews plan protests to help arrested Iran Jews
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* Khatami urged to settle Iran police-judiciary
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* European Jewish Congress announces protest campaign for
21 suspects
* Iran frees up ownership of videos
* Khatami's brother charged with libel
* Hajjarian attack suspects handed over to courts
* Hajjarian's party criticises rush trial of accused
* Alleged Jewish spies in trial can choose own lawyers: judge
* Senior Iranian rabbi meets spy case judge
* Khatami urges solidarity between Shiites and Sunnis
* Iran court seeks custody of shooting suspects
* Iran Jews want spy trial postponed
* Press publish photos of Hajarian attack suspect
* Canada deports Iranian resistance woman
* Iran state media sues president's brother
* Theology student slain by attackers who asked about religion
* Accused Iranian Jews get lawyers
* Judge suing journalist for book on slayings of intellectuals
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Friday
April 7, 2000
* Sixth reformist has election cancelled by conservative council
TEHRAN, April 7 (AFP) - A conservative-led Iranian council has overturned
the election of another pro-reform MP, state radio said Friday, the sixth
reformist to have his victory cancelled since February's vote. The Council
of Guardians cited "irregularities" in cancelling the results
of a district in Tehran province where a reformist backer of President
Mohammad Khatami had ousted the conservative incumbent >>>
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* Iran: Not all Jewish suspects spies
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Some of the 13 Iranian Jews accused of espionage
are not considered spies, so they would not be subject to the death penalty
if convicted, an Iranian judicial official said Thursday. ``When we say
they are accused of espionage, we don't mean that all of them are spies
and all of them will get the same punishment,'' judicial spokesman Hussein
Mirmohammad Sadeqi said on a live state-run television program >>>
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* Hundreds protest in Paris in support of 13 Iranian Jews
PARIS, April 7 (AFP) - Several hundred people turned out in Paris on
Thursday to demand the release of 13 Iranian Jews accused of spying for
Israel and the United States, and under threat of execution. To cries
of "Free the Jews from Iran!" the protesters -- numbered at 5,000
by organisers, and 1,300 by police -- marked to the Palace of Justice,
where they were addressed by leaders of the European Jewish Congress, political
parties and pressure groups >>>
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* U.S. Jews plan protests to help arrested Iran Jews
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. Jewish groups urged worldwide prayers and
candlelight vigils on Friday in support of 13 Iranian Jews who are expected
to go on trial there next week on charges of spying for Israel. A coalition
of American Jewish groups in association with the World Jewish Congress
called for the prayers to take place on Saturday with the vigils to follow
during the course of the week. The trial is scheduled to start in the southern
Iranian city of Shiraz on Thursday >>>
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Thursday
April 6,
* Khatami urged to settle Iran police-judiciary row
TEHRAN, April 6 (Reuters) - The head of Iran's secret police urged President
Mohammad Khatami to intervene to settle a row with the judiciary over the
custody of suspects held for shooting a top reformer. Intelligence Minister
Ali Yunesi accused the judiciary of cutting short a high-profile inquiry
by his services into last month's murder attempt against Saeed Hajjarian,
a close ally of Khatami, by demanding custody of the suspects >>> FULL TEXT
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* European Jewish Congress announces protest campaign for 21 suspects
PARIS, April 6 (AFP) - The European Jewish Congress announced Wednesday
a pan-European protest campaign aimed at saving 13 Iranian Jews and eight
Iranian Muslims accused of spying in Iran and under threat of execution.
Several rallies have been slated for the next few days in a number of European
capitals, the Congress said in a statement sent to AFP >>>
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Wednesday
April 5, 2000
* Iran frees up ownership of videos
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's Supreme Court has ruled it is no longer a
crime to possess videos or music cassettes that ``corrupt public ethics''
if they are for personal use, a further sign of expanding social freedoms
in the Islamic nation. ``Possession of immodest pictures, video films,
cassette tapes and the like is not considered an offense unless it is used
to promote corruption and prostitution,'' Ahmad Darzi, a court official,
said today. ``If it is for commercial or distribution purposes, then legal
action will be taken.'' >>>
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* Khatami's brother charged with libel
TEHRAN, April 5 (AFP) - Iranian reformist leader Mohammad-Reza Khatami,
brother of President Mohammad Khatami, was formally charged with libel
Wednesday in his capacity as head of the daily Mosharekat. Press court
judge Said Mortazavi bailed him in the sum of 50 million rials (16,666
dollars at the official rate of exchange) pending trial, after four hours
of questioning >>>
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* Hajjarian attack suspects handed over to courts
TEHRAN, April 5 (AFP) - The man accused of accused of shooting Iranian
reformist leader Said Hajarian and nine alleged accomplices have been handed
over to the courts ahead of their trial later this month, state radio reported
Tuesday. The trial of Said Asqar and the nine will take place before the
end of the first month of the Iranian year -- April 20 -- spokesman Hussein
Mir Mohammad Sadeghi said Monday, describing the suspects as "terrorists."
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* Hajjarian's party criticises rush trial of accused
TEHRAN, April 5 (AFP) - The party of shot Iranain reformist Said Hajarian
claimed Wednesday that the trial of his alleged attackers was being rushed
through to cover up those who were really guilty. The Islamic Iran Participation
Front (IIPF) said in a statement that Tuesday's handing over of the case
to the hardline revolutionary courts was premature >>>
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* Alleged Jewish spies in trial can choose own lawyers: judge
TEHRAN, April 5 (AFP) - The 13 Iranian Jews accused of spying for Israel
will be able to have their own lawyers, the judge who will hear their case
at the Shiraz revolutionary court said Wednesday. Hossein Nurani told Iranian
Chief Rabbi Yusef Hamedani Cohen that since the accused had not chosen
their lawyers in time, "they would do well to use the appointed lawyers,"
Iranian radio said, quoting a spokesman for the judicial system >>> FULL
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* Senior Iranian rabbi meets spy case judge
TEHRAN, April 5 (Reuters) - The spiritual leader of Iran's Jews has
met the judge in the case of 13 co-religionists charged with spying on
behalf of Israel, Iranian state radio reported on Wednesday. The 13, detained
along with eight Moslems, could face the death penalty. "Rabbi Yousef
Haim Hamedani Cohen, religious leader of the Iranian Jews, met with the
judge on the case of the 13 Jews accused of spying," the radio said
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* Khatami urges solidarity between Shiites and Sunnis
KORDE KUV, Iran, April 5 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami
called Wednesday for "more solidarity and understanding" between
Shiite and Sunni Muslims, days after the murder of a Shiite theology student
in a predominantly Sunni region. Khatami was speaking during a tour of
northeastern Iran near the border of Turkmenistan, home to a large Sunni
population while Iran as a whole is 90 percent Shiit >>>
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Tuesday
April 4, 2000
* Iran court seeks custody of shooting suspects
TEHRAN, April 3 (Reuters) - A top Iranian court official called on the
secret police on Monday to hand over suspects held for the shooting of
a top reformer, to prevent possible mistreatment during questioning, Iran's
news agency IRNA said. ``To prevent any conceivable punishment, threats,
pressure, or injury to the accused, it is necessary that they be turned
over to the justice ministry's department in Tehran...so that interrogations
are carried out under the supervision of a judge,'' IRNA quoted department
head Abbasali Alizadeh as saying >>>
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* Iran Jews want spy trial postponed
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's Jewish Society has called for a delay in
the espionage trial of 13 Iranian Jews and has asked that they be freed
on bail to attend religious ceremonies later this month. In a statement
faxed to The Associated Press on Tuesday, the society also demanded the
suspects - whose trial is to begin April 13 in Shiraz, 550 miles south
of the capital, Tehran - be allowed to meet their families and choose their
own lawyers >>>
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Monday
April 3, 2000
* Press publish photos of Hajarian attack suspect
TEHRAN, April 3 (AFP) - The Iranian press published photos Monday of
the man suspected of shooting reformist leader Said Hajarian on March 12,
and of his six alleged accomplices. The men, who appear to be between 20
and 30 years old, are accused of attempted assassination by a "terrorist
group", the press said, with Said Asfqar alleged to be the gunman
who shot Hajarian >>>
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* Canada deports Iranian resistance woman
OTTAWA, April 3 (Reuters) - The Canadian government on Monday ordered
the deportation, probably to the United States, of an Iranian woman who
was a member of the armed opposition group Mujahideen Khalq. Citizenship
Minister Elinor Caplan told reporters that the woman, Mahnaz Samadi, was
ordered deported because the Mujahideen Khalq was deemed to be a terrorist
organization >>>
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* Iran state media sues president's brother
TEHRAN, April 2 (AFP) - Iran's conservative-run state media are among
the plaintiffs who have filed suit againt Mohammad-Reza Khatami, the brother
of the president and a top pro-reform politician, his lawyer said Sunday.
Khatami -- who led reformists to a sweeping victory in February's parliamentary
elections, ending the longstanding conservative majority in the legislature
-- was summoned Thursday to appear in press court on libel and defamation
charges >>>
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* Theology student slain by attackers who asked about religion
TEHRAN, April 2 (AFP) - A theology student was slain in a Sunni Muslim
majority city of predominantly Shiite Muslim Iran by assailants who first
questioned him about his religious beliefs, the Asr-e Arzadegan newspaper
reported Sunday. Shamseddin Kiani, 18, was kidnapped, forced into a car,
beaten and burned in the southeastern city of Zahedan in Sistan Baluchestan
province by unidentified attackers >>>
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* Accused Iranian Jews get lawyers
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's judiciary has assigned lawyers to defend
13 Iranian Jews expected to go on trial this month on espionage charges,
Iranian radio reported Monday. ``The accused Jews refused to introduce
lawyers and therefore lawyers have been appointed for them,'' the state
radio quoted judiciary spokesman Hossein Mirmohammad Sadeqi as saying >>>
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* Judge suing journalist for book on slayings of intellectuals
TEHRAN, April 3 (AFP) - An Iranian religious court judge is suing a
pro-reform author who wrote that the judge was involved in a series of
murders of intellectuals and opposition figures in 1998, the Ham Mihan
newspaper said Monday. Author Hamid Reza Kaviani, who is also deputy editor
of the pro-reform newspaper Asr-e-ma, was summoned to appear in court June
28 for his investigative book on the killings, Ham Mihan said >>> FULL TEXT
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