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August 11, 2000
International criticism mounts over crackdown on Iran's press
NICOSIA, Aug 10 (AFP) - International criticism is mounting over a continuing
crackdown on the reformist Iranian press by the country's conservative
Islamic regime. After months of successive newspaper closures and the jailing
of journalists, Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Sunday issued
a shock decree banning the new reformist-dominated parliament from carrying
out plans to overturn the country's tough press laws >>>
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Amnesty expresses concern over arrest of journalists
Amnesty International, 9 August 2000 -- In a renewed crackdown on freedom
of speech in Iran, the authorities have arrested three prominent journalists.
One of them is diabetic, and has reportedly found it difficult to obtain
insulin in custody. Amnesty International considers the three men to be
prisoners of conscience, detained solely for the legitimate expression
of their opinions >>>
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MP, who questioned leader, offers to resign under intimidation
08/10/2000, BBC Monitoring, Source: `Iran' daily newspaper web site
-- The Majlis deputy from Mahallat and Delijan, Ali Asghar Hadizadeh [who
questioned the leader Ali Khamene'i's right of veto over Majlis authority],
addressing the Majlis speaker yesterday, said: The presidium of the Majlis
is duty-bound to defend the rights and status of the deputies >>> FULL TEXT
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* International criticism mounts over
crackdown on Iran's press
* Amnesty expresses concern over arrest of journalists
* MP, who questioned leader, offers to resign under intimidation
* Behnoud held as crackdown goes on
* Iran Assembly Pushes on Women's Rights
* IRIB files complaint against the Interior Ministry
* Jurists under fire worldwide, report says
* Shamsolvaezin sentence confirmed, Behnous summoned
* Judge meets relatives of jailed Jews
* Reformist MP quits post over conservative onslaught
* Hard-liners demonstrate
* Iran's leader stamps on freedom
* Iran leader bars a bill restoring freedom of press
* Press group protests Iranian failure to free media
* "Demonstration" to support curbs on press
* Courts vow to stamp out press "corruption"
* Eshkevari detained
* Reformist writer detained in Iran
* Female reporters criticise inequality of sexes
* Female appointed governor
* Moral police ban ties in resort island
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Thursday
August 10, 2000
Behnoud held as crackdown goes on
TEHRAN, Aug 9 (AFP) - Iran's supreme court approved a two and a half-year
prison term Wednesday for reformist journalist Mashallah Shamsolvaezin,
a judicial official said. Meanwhile the press court issued a warrant for
Masud Behnud, a liberal writer close to President Mohammad Khatami, saying
he would be arrested if he does not appear in court by Saturday >>>
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Iran Assembly Pushes on Women's Rights
The News York Times
TEHRAN, Aug. 9 -- Iran's reformist Parliament, fresh from a slap by
the country's supreme leader, who ordered it to drop a bill for press reform,
showed its determination today to forge ahead with social change and grant
women additional rights by raising the marriage age.
The vote will be reflected in the draft of a bill to change a law introduced
just after the Islamic revolution in 1979 that lets fathers marry off their
daughters as young as 9. More than two-thirds of the 290-member assembly
voted for the change, the first major step since Parliament began its session
in May >>>
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IRIB files court complaint against the Interior Ministry
TEHRAN, Aug 10 (AFP) - Iran's conservative-run state broadcast company
has filed a court complaint against the interior ministry in the latest
squabble here over the press, a newspaper reported Thursday. Islamic Republic
of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) lodged the complaint after the ministry criticised
its coverage of what it called an "illegal" rally in support
of curbs on the press, the Jam-e-Jam paper said >>>
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Jurists under fire worldwide, report says
Aug 10 2000, GENEVA (Reuters) - More than 400 judges and lawyers in
nearly 50 countries suffered reprisals last year, including death, kidnappings
and arrests, an international human rights monitoring group said Friday.
Lawyers face ``persistent harassment, including through detention and unreasonable
government regulation of their activities'' in Belarus, Egypt, Tunisia,
Sudan, Azerbaijan and Iran, according to the report >>>
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Wednesday
August 9, 2000
Shamsolvaezin sentence confirmed, Behnoud summoned
TEHRAN, Aug 9 (AFP) - Iran's supreme court approved a two and a half-year
prison term Wednesday for reformist journalist Mashallah Shamsolvaezin,
a judicial official said. Meanwhile the press court issued a warrant for
Masud Behnud, a liberal writer close to President Mohammad Khatami, saying
he would be arrested if he does not appear in court by Saturday >>> FULL TEXT
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Judge meets relatives of jailed Jews
TEHRAN, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Families of 10 Iranian Jews jailed for spying
for Israel met a senior judicial official on Tuesday to demand better conditions
for the prisoners. Relatives told reporters they had tabled a list of demands
in talks with Hossein-Ali Amiri, local judiciary chief in the southern
city of Shiraz >>>
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Tuesday
August 8, 2000
Reformist MP quits post over conservative onslaught on press
TEHRAN, Aug 8 (AFP) - The head of Iran's parliamentary commission for
culture, Ahmad Pour-Nejati, resigned his post Tuesday to protest against
recent conservative-led attacks against pro-reformers and press. "I
have resigned from my post as president of the commission in order to defend
parliament," the deputy said at the beginning of the parliamentary
session >>>
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Hard-liners demonstrate
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Hard-liners protesting outside parliament called
on Tuesday for the death and expulsion of reformists who dared challenge
an order from Iran's supreme leader that squelched debate on easing the
country's restrictive press law. In a second day of protests outside the
legislature, demonstrators called for the execution of lawmaker Mohammad
Rashidian, who sought to debate the proposed changes two days ago. ``Traitor
Rashidian must be executed!'' the protesters shouted >>>
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Monday
August 7, 2000
By Nazila Fathi
The New York Times
August 7, 2000
Quashing a cherished goal of President Mohammad Khatami and his reformist
allies, Iran's supreme religious leader today sided conclusively with the
country's conservatives and ordered Parliament to scrap a bill aimed at
restoring a free press.
The surprise intervention by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country's top
Muslim cleric, stunned reformers who had hoped to use their newly won strength
in Parliament to revive the once vigorous liberal press >>>
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Press group protests Iranian failure to free media
VIENNA, Aug 7 (AFP) - The International Press Institute (IPI) expressed
deep concern Monday over Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's decision
to ban the reformist parliament from rolling back a series of tough press
curbs. The Vienna-based lobbying group, in an open letter to Khamenei calling
on him to re-introduce the legislation, lamented a series of incidents
including the banning of a pro-reform newspaper and the arrest of a journalist
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"Demonstration" at parliament to support curbs on press
TEHRAN, Aug 7 (AFP) - Hundreds of people rallied outside the Iranian
parliament Monday in support of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,
a day after he quashed reformist hopes of repealing the nation's tough
press laws. The crowd chanted "US-style reforms, Never, never!"
and "Woe the day that my leader gives me the command for jihad (holy
war). The world's armies will not be able to stop me.">>>
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Courts vow to stamp out press "corruption"
TEHRAN, Aug 7 (AFP) - Iran's conservative-dominated judiciary announced
Monday it was determined to stamp out "corrupt" elements working
in collusion with the foreign press, state radio reported. "Some of
these elements are at the origin of propaganda campaigns against the regime
and cooperate with foreign media such as the Voice of America and Israeli
radio, the BBC and Radio Free Iran," said Abbas Alizadeh, head of
the judiciary in Tehran province >>>
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Eshkevari detained
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A liberal Iranian writer and cleric was detained
Saturday for attending a controversial Berlin conference on Iran, his son
said. The official Islamic Republic News Agency confirmed the arrest of
Hassan Yousefi Eshkevari, saying he was taken to Tehran's Evin prison for
investigation on security charges >>>
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Reformist writer detained in Iran
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Bolstered by an order from Iran's supreme leader
that undercut hopes of greater press freedom, hard-liners arrested a liberal
journalist and shut down a reformist newspaper on Monday. Using powers
granted by the restrictive press law the reformers had hoped to ammend,
plainclothes security forces arrested journalist Ahmad Zeidabadi at his
home Monday >>>
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Female reporters criticise inequality of sexes
TEHRAN, Aug 7 (AFP) - Women reporters marked national journalists' day
here Monday by condemning the "inequality of the sexes" in the
workplace, the official IRNA news agency reported. "Despite all the
slogans, an inequality of the sexes exists between journalists performing
the same work," said Maryam Afshari, a staff member at the government-run
Iran daily >>>
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Female appointed governor
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A woman has been appointed a district governor for
the first time since the 1979 Islamic revolution, the official Islamic
Republic News Agency reported Saturday. Interior Minister Abdolvahed Mousavi
Lari appointed Rahmat Ruhani Sarvestani as governor of Sarvestan, a district
near Shiraz, the agency quoted a ministry statement as saying >>>
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Moral police ban ties in resort island
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's morality police has ordered a ban on wearing
ties, a symbol of Western culture, in a main tourist spot, but officials
there vowed to resist the move. The ban follows growing tension in Kish,
a fashionable island in the Gulf, between hardline institutions and more
moderate officials struggling to attract foreign tourists by easing strict
Islamic code of dress and conduct >>>
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