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Human Rights
August 14-18, 2000 / Mordad 24-28, 1379

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Friday
August 18, 2000

Amnesty urges U.S. to stop 'cruel' executions

LONDON (Reuters) - Amnesty International appealed to the United States on Friday to stop the execution of Alexander Williams, a mentally ill prisoner who was 17 at the time of his crime. Scheduled to go to the electric chair in Jackson, Georgia next Thursday, Williams, now 31, would be the fifth child offender to be executed in the United States this year, more than in any other year since 1954, Amnesty said in a statement >>> FULL TEXT

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* Amnesty urges U.S. to stop 'cruel' executions
* Court slaps permanent ban on 'Ava' newspaper paper
* President urges patience on reforms
* Radical daily resumes publication in reformist guise
* Judicial official casts doubt on the re-opening papers
* Parliament okays defence lawyers for all court hearings
* Reformers seek to protect free press
* Press courts carry on press crackdown
* Relatives of jailed journalists working for release
* Journalist group criticizes Iran press clampdown
* Iran's Reformers Renew Claim to Mantle of Change

* Opposition movement calls on leader to repeal press decree
* List of journalists and politicians jailed or facing charges
* Courts may let some banned newspapers re-open
* Judge bans reformist book
* Iran appeals court to issue Jewish spy ruling in early September
* Newspaper folds because of financial difficulties

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Thursday
August 17, 2000

Court slaps permanent ban on 'Ava' newspaper paper

TEHRAN, Aug 17 (AFP) - Iran's press court imposed a permanent ban on a suspended pro-reform newspaper and barred its director from further press activities, newspapers said here Thursday. Ava (The Voice) was one of more than 20 publications closed in a sweeping crackdown on the press over the past few months led by the conservative- dominated courts >>> FULL TEXT

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Wednesday
August 16, 2000

President urges patience on reforms

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami vowed Wednesday to press on with reforms but warned supporters to be patient and realistic. ``I stand firm ... on my promises. We ought to have a free climate for expression of views ... and not betray people's dreams,'' state IRNA news agency quoted Khatami as saying >>> FULL TEXT

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Radical daily resumes publication in reformist guise

TEHRAN, Aug 16 (AFP) - A radical daily which ceased publication last year reappeared Wednesday expressing support for the reforms of President Mohammad Khatami. Jahan-e-Eslam (World of Islam) said it was now the organ of the Association of Partisan Forces of the Imam (APFI), a group formed in 1997 at the time of Khatami's election >>> FULL TEXT

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Judicial official casts doubt on the re-opening of newspapers: paper

TEHRAN, Aug 16 (AFP) - A conservative newspaper, citing an unidentified "high-ranking" official in the judiciary, cast doubt Wednesday on reports that banned papers would be returning to newsstands soon. The official, quoted in the Qods daily, contradicted statements Monday by Iran's number-two judge, Hadi Marvi, that some of the more than 20 newspapers and magazines could be allowed to re-open >>> FULL TEXT

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Parliament okays defence lawyers for all court hearings

TEHRAN, Aug 16 (AFP) - Defendants on trial in the courts will be allowed to have a lawyer on hand for all hearings under draft legislation passed by the parliament on Wednesday. The bill, which will be forwarded to a parliamentary committee for further readings, would mark the first time since the 1979 Islamic revolution that defendants were granted full rights to a lawyer in court >>> FULL TEXT

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Tuesday
August 15, 2000

Reformers seek to protect free press

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - In a daring move after an order from Iran's supreme leader to drop a debate on press freedoms, reformist lawmakers presented a bill Tuesday that aims to block the hard-line judiciary from closing reformist newspapers. Legislators submitted an ``extremely urgent'' motion to the parliament, or Majlis, seeking a debate on whether it was legal to close newspapers under the Security Measures Law, the official Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) quoted a lawmaker as saying >>> FULL TEXT

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Press courts carry on press crackdown

TEHRAN, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Iran's hardline Press Court opened a new case against a convicted publisher on Tuesday, one day after a top judiciary official suggested the crackdown on the pro-reform press could be winding down. The court summoned Mohammad Reza Zohdi, sentenced last month to four months in jail on separate press charges, to answer new allegations. His Arya newspaper was closed for good >>> FULL TEXT

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Journalist group criticizes Iran press clampdown

PARIS (Reuters) - International media watchdog Reporters without Borders (RsF) Monday accused Iran's supreme leader of turning his country into a huge jail for journalists and published an Internet petition seeking the release of those held. The Paris-based RsF, which also called for an end to a crackdown on pro-reform newspapers, said 14 Iranian journalists were being held and another 16 faced prosecution and possible arrest >>> FULL TEXT

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Relatives of jailed journalists working for release

TEHRAN, Aug 15 (AFP) - Relatives of Iran's jailed journalists have banded together to form a new association to work for their release, the group said in a statement Tuesday. The Association of Families of Detained Journalists said in a statement received by AFP that it expected members of the journalist's guild as well as members of parliament to participate in the group's work >>> FULL TEXT

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Monday
August 14, 2000

Iran's Reformers Renew Claim to Mantle of Change

By Jonathan Lyons

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's reformist majority in parliament, under counter-attack from clerical conservatives, issued an open letter to the nation Sunday reaffirming its claim to the mantle of political and social change.

A week after supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei intervened to kill debate on a proposed relaxation of press curbs, centerpiece of the reform agenda in the new parliament, 148 deputies signed a pledge to pursue their program >>> FULL TEXT

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Opposition movement calls on leader to repeal press decree

TEHRAN, Aug 13 (AFP) - An Iranian opposition movement on Sunday called on supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to reconsider his decree banning the new pro-reform parliament from rolling back tough curbs on the press.

The banned but tolerated Iran Freedom Movement (IFM), in an open letter to Khamenei, blasted his "interference in the affairs of the elected parliament.">>> FULL TEXT

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List of journalists and politicians jailed or facing charges

TEHRAN, Aug 13 (AFP) - The arrest Sunday of two pro-reform Iranian journalists is the latest in a series of legal measures against top writers and politicians in the Islamic republic. Herewith is a partial list of others already in jail or facing charges >>> FULL TEXT

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Courts may let some banned newspapers re-open

TEHRAN, Aug 14 (AFP) - The conservative courts will allow several newspapers closed in the recent press crackdown to begin publishing again, the nation's number two judge said on Monday. "Following talks with the chief justice, some papers whose preliminary investigations have been completed will be authorised to resume their activities," deputy chief justice Hadi Marvi said, cited by the official IRNA news agency >>> FULL TEXT

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Judge bans reformist book

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A hard-line judge has banned the sale of a book that implicates former government officials in the 1998 murders of five dissidents, the author's wife and publisher said Saturday. Judge Saeed Mortazavi did not give any reasons for imposing the ban on ``Tragedy of Democracy in Iran'' by Emadeddin Baqi, Baqi's wife, Fatemeh Kamali, said >>> FULL TEXT

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Iran appeals court to issue Jewish spy ruling in early September

TEHRAN, Aug 14 (AFP) - An Iranian appeals court will deliver a ruling early next month in the case of 10 Iranian Jews sentenced to prison on charges of spying for Israel, a judicial official told AFP on Monday. Hossein Ali Amiri, spokesman for the court in the southern city of Shiraz which first handed down the sentences, said the appeals tribunal was still looking into the "very thick" files of the case >>> FULL TEXT

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Newspaper folds because of financial difficulties

TEHRAN, Aug 14 (AFP) - A newspaper geared towards housewives has stopped publishing because of financial problems, the state news agency IRNA said Monday. "We have done all we could do, sold all we could sell, but the expenses are too much and we cannot continue," said Hossein Ferdos, director Sobh-e-Khanevadeh, or Family Morning >>> FULL TEXT

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As of December 31, 1998 (Committee to Protect Journalists) - Since President Muhammad Khatemi took office in August 1997, Iran's press has benefited from his agenda of social and political reforms. Newspapers are now tackling political subjects that would have been unthinkable only a year earlier. But almost as quickly as journalists realized their new freedoms, the press found itself the target of a relentless attacks from hard-line supporters of Iran's spiritual guide Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ... FULL TEXT

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