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* Khatami meets Iran's Jewish leaders
* Tehran's press court summons capital's
mayor
* Opposition figure released from detention
* Prominent reformist journalist placed in solitary confinement
* Two women editors in press court
* Conservative papers refuse to reveal circulation figures
* Iran may ban cops from campus
* Iran court split on charges vs Jews
* Majority of Iranian girls wish they were boys
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August 25 2000
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Thursday
August 24, 2000
Khatami meets Iran's Jewish leaders
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - President Mohammad Khatami met Iranian-Jewish community
leaders Thursday in a bid to ease the anxieties of the Jewish minority
in Iran, where 10 Jews were convicted last month of spying for Israel.
Khatami met with a group of 40 Jews, including the wife of one of the convicted
men. He promised to defend their rights, said Iranian Jewish lawmaker Morris
Motamed >>>
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Wednesday
August 23, 2000
Tehran's press court summons capital's mayor
TEHRAN, Aug 23 (AFP) - Tehran's mayor Morteza Aliviri appeared at the
capital's press court Wednesday to answer charges facing him in his capacity
as the director of the Hamshahri paper, the largest circulation daily in
Iran. According to judicial sources, Alviri, "responded to press court
judge Said Mortazavi's questions relating to charges made against his paper,"
which is run by the municipality >>>
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Tuesday
August 22, 2000
Opposition figure released from detention
TEHRAN, Aug 22 (AFP) - Opposition figure Ezatollah Sahabi, who was detained
in Tehran after he returned from a controversial conference in Berlin in
April, has been released pending trial, state radio said Tuesday. The Iranian
judicial system decided the conference was "anti-Islamic," after
some participants attacked Iran's Islamic regime for press censorship and
political repression >>>
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Prominent reformist journalist placed in solitary confinement
TEHRAN, Aug 22 (AFP) - Reformist journalist Mashallah Shamsolvaezin
jailed in April for "hurting Islam" has been placed in solitary
confinement, his wife said cited by the press here Tuesday. "We were
informed by other detained friends that Shamsolvaezin has been transfered
to an individual prison cell since Sunday, but we do not know why,"
his wife said cited by the Hayate-No paper >>>
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Monday
August 21, 2000
Two women editors in press court
TEHRAN, Aug 21 (AFP) - The editors of two magazines, both of them women,
appeared in press court Monday to face charges ranging from defamation
to publishing anti-Islamic propaganda. Taraneh Behzadi, head of the scientfic
and cultural monthly Danestaniha, which is considered close to the reform
movement, has been accused of defamation and publishing false information
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Conservative papers refuse to reveal circulation figures
TEHRAN, Aug 20 (AFP) - At least eight conservative Iranian newspapers
have ignored an order by the culture ministry to make public their print
runs, the Hamshahri daily reported on Sunday. The order was given in a
bid to "make the workings of the press transparent," according
to an excerpt of the directive published by Hamshahri >>>
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Iran may ban cops from campus
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iranian lawmakers approved a draft bill Sunday that
would ban police from entering universities without permission, a central
issue since security forces and Islamic vigilantes stormed a dormitory
last year and beat up students. The preliminary version, passed by the
reformist-dominated parliament, or Majlis, would require police and other
security forces to get approval from the head of the university and the
education minister before entering a compound, even in an emergency >>>
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Iran court split on charges vs Jews
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A three-judge appeals court reviewing the jail terms
of 10 Iranian Jews convicted of spying for Israel is divided on whether
all the charges constituted crimes, a senior judicial official said in
comments reported Monday. The main charges on which a lower court convicted
the 10 were espionage, cooperating with the Zionist regime and participation
in an illegal group >>>
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Majority of Iranian girls wish they were boys
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Fifty-three percent of Iranian girls interviewed
in a recent survey said that if they could be born again they would prefer
to be boys, a newspaper reported on Sunday. The study was carried out by
Manouchehr Mohseni, a professor of sociology, Kar Va Kargar newspaper said.
Further details were not reported >>>
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