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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 >>>
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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 >>>
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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 >>>
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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 >>>
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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 >>>
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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 >>>
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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 >>>
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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 >>>
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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
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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
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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 >>>
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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.">>>
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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 >>>
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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
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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
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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 >>>
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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 >>>
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