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August 4, 2000
Press clampdown paralyses reform course in Iran
July 28, 2000, Teheran (dpa) - Despite overwhelming victories in presidential
and parliamentary elections Iranian President Mohammad Khatami seems to
have ground to a halt with his reform efforts. The slow-down follows an
extensive press crackdown by the conservative opposition >>>
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* Press clampdown paralyses reform course
in Iran
* Googoosh's husband summoned to court
* Sahabi demands his release from prison
* Iranian progressive released on bail
* New reformist newspaper banned in Iran
* Reformist editor sentenced to four months in jail
* Clerics OK women to lead prayers
* Girls to get mandatory paramilitary training
* Iran says three judges review Jewish spy appeal
* Newspaper editor jailed
* IRNA and Keyhan newspaper end war of attrition
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Thursday
August 3, 2000
Googoosh's husband summoned to court
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iranian officials have summoned the film director
husband of pop star Googoosh to court over a film they say violates the
Islamic dress code, a newspaper reported Thursday. Supporters of Googoosh
and her husband, Masood Kimiai, said the move was an attack by hardliners
on the increasing cultural freedoms associated with moderate President
Mohammad Khatami >>>
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Sahabi demands his release from prison
TEHRAN, Aug 3 (AFP) - A leading opposition figure jailed for taking
part in a controversial political seminar abroad has demanded his release
from prison, his lawyer said in a statement received by AFP on Thursday.
Ezzatollah Sahabi is still in prison although all others arrested for participating
in the Berlin seminar that shocked conservatives have since been freed
on bail, his lawyer said >>>
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Wednesday
August 2, 2000
Iranian progressive released on bail
TEHRAN, Aug 2 (AFP) - Taghi Rahmani, a member of Iran's progressive
opposition, was released late Tuesday after 24 hours in jail for "insulting
the supreme leader" Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the official IRNA news
agency reported. Rahmani, who had been arrested and imprisoned Monday in
the central town of Shahr-e Kord, was released on bail, his lawyer Mohammad-Ali
Jedari said cited by the agency >>>
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New reformist newspaper banned in Iran
TEHRAN, Aug 1 (Reuters) - An Iranian revolutionary court has banned
a provincial reformist newspaper which had tried to shed light on alleged
corruption and mismanagement in the Islamic republic, the former daily
said in a fax on Tuesday. Ruzdara, the only independent newspaper in Sistan-
Baluchestan, a poverty-stricken province in southeastern Iran, was forced
to stop publishing last Thursday by a court decree >>>
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Tuesday
August 1, 2000
Reformist editor sentenced to four months in jail
TEHRAN, Aug 1 (AFP) - Tehran's press court sentenced the publisher of
the banned reformist daily Arya to a four-month jail term and a ban on
further press activities, newspapers reported Tuesday. Hamid Reza Zohdi
was found guilty of "provoking public opinion, publishing malicious
lies, insulting the state, eroding the regime of the Islamic Republic and
(printing) anti-state propaganda >>>
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Clerics OK women to lead prayers after "shocking" report
TEHRAN, Aug 1 (AFP) - In a bid to combat flagging interest in daily
prayers, Iran clerics have issued a historic decree allowing women to lead
collective worship in school, the official IRNA news agency said Tuesday.
The religious decree or fatwa, authorised by six leading clerics, will
allow women to lead prayers in girls' schools for the first time since
the 1979 Islamic revolution which brought the clergy to power here >>> FULL
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Girls to get mandatory paramilitary training in school
TEHRAN, Aug 1 (AFP) - Iran's education ministry is to make paramilitary
training compulsory in girls' schools across the nation, the state news
agency IRNA announced on Tuesday. The training, to include self-defence,
urban combat and first aid, is aimed at "improving the health of girls
going through puberty and giving them more opportunities to be a part of
social and cultural life," a ministry official told IRNA >>> FULL TEXT
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Monday
July 31, 2000
Iran says three judges review Jewish spy appeal
TEHRAN, July 29 (Reuters) - Iran has assigned a three-judge panel to
review an appeal by 10 Iranian Jews and two Moslems convicted of spying
for Israel, a judiciary official said on Saturday. A foreign ministry spokesman
said Tehran would ``not accept any meddlesome statements'' from outside
the country in the high profile espionage case >>>
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Newspaper editor jailed
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's hard-line judiciary has sentenced the editor
of a banned reformist newspaper to a four-month jail term and an unspecified
cash fine, a newspaper reported Monday. Mohammad Reza Zohdi, director of
the Arya daily, was found guilty of a wide range of charges that included
``insulting officials and government organizations'' and ``disturbing public
opinion'' with his publication, Iran's official daily paper reported >>>
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IRNA and Keyhan newspaper end war of attrition
TEHRAN, July 29 (AFP) - Iran's government-run official IRNA news agency
and the conservative Kayhan paper, two leading news providers in the Islamic
republic, announced the end to an escalating war of words Saturday. The
news providers had been caught up in an unprecedented dispute which pitched
IRNA, close to reformist President Mohammad Khatami, up against Kayhan,
which is close to Iran's spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei >>> FULL TEXT
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