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* Cartoonist regrets "extremism"
* Tehran rejects UN human rights resolution
* Top Iran judge to challenge murder accusations by Akbar
Ganji
* U.N. General Assembly raps Iran on rights abuses
* Kin of slain writers freed
* Judge, defense attorney clash over evidence in dissident's
trial
* Berlin seminar aimed at overthrowing regime, court told
* Interior ministry bans annual student demonstration
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Friday
December 8, 2000
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Thursday
December 7, 2000
Students urge president Khatami to be bolder
TEHRAN, Dec 6 (AFP) - Groups of students who loudly acclaimed Iranian
President Mohammad Khatami Wednesday at Tehran university want "more
boldness" of their leader in facing up to the conservatives. "Khatami
has the right to a second chance. But he needs to be bolder to face off
the conservatives, who failed completely in the elections, but still hang
on to power," said Somayeh Sarighadam, a literature student >>> FULL TEXT
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Wednesday
December 6, 2000
Cartoonist regrets "extremism"
Tehran (Hambastegi) -- "We went too fast," says cartoonist
Nikahang Kosar, whose cartoons critical of the conservatives have caused
him legal troubles >>>
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Tuesday
December 5, 2000
Tehran rejects UN human rights resolution
TEHRAN, Dec 5 (AFP) - Iran energetically rejected Tuesday a resolution
adopted by the UN General Assembly a day earlier expressing "deep
concerns" about press freedom in Iran, the official IRNA news agency
reported. "This resolution, voted by a small majority of the UN General
Assembly, is too categorical and does not correspond to the reality of
Iranian society", IRNA quoted foreign ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza
Assefi >>>
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Monday
December 4, 2000
Top Iran judge to challenge murder accusations by Akbar Ganji
TEHRAN, Dec 4 (AFP) - The head of a powerful Tehran clerical court said
Monday he would defend himself against recent allegations by a top journalist
implicating him in the 1998 killing of a communist militant in Iran. Gholam-Hossein
Mohseni Ejei, the head of the conservative-run Special Court for Clergy
(SCC) said he would "soon" respond to the accusation made by
jailed journalist Akbar Ganji in late November >>>
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U.N. General Assembly raps Iran on rights abuses
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Rebuking Iran on a series of human rights
abuses, the U.N. General Assembly narrowly adopted a resolution on Monday
calling on Tehran to end torture, particularly amputations. The vote was
67 in favor, 54 against with 46 abstentions on the resolution that chastised
Iran for executions, a crackdown on freedom of speech and press, and discrimination
against religious minorities, such as the Bahais. Last year the Assembly
voted 61-47-51 on a similar measure >>>
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Kin of slain writers freed
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iranian authorities have released eight relatives
and friends of slain dissident writers after detaining them for four days,
a relative said Monday. The eight - among hundreds of people who attended
a ceremony Thursday marking the second anniversary of the death of dissident
writer Majid Sharif - were released Sunday, political activist Habibollah
Peyman told The Associated Press >>>
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Judge, defense attorney clash over evidence in dissident's trial
TEHRAN, Dec 3 (AFP) - The judge and a defense attorney in the trial
of 18 reformists for endangering state security by attending a conference
in Berlin clashed Saturday over whether a document found at one defendant's
home was classified. The "confidential document was destined for the
Ministry of Information and for Justice and should not have been found"
at the home of journalist and defendant, Akbar Ganji, said Hassan Ahmadi-Moqadessi,
the revolutionary court's chief judge >>>
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Berlin seminar aimed at overthrowing regime, court told
TEHRAN, Dec 3 (AFP) - Reformists on trial for attending a controversial
conference in Berlin faced the prospect of heavier punishment Sunday after
the prosecution claimed the aim of the seminar was to overthrow Iran's
Islamic regime. Revolutionary court prosecutor Abdollah Sharifi revealed
the accusation for the first time when he read the charge sheet for one
of the interpreters at the April conference, Khalil Rostam-Khani >>> FULL TEXT
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Interior ministry bans annual student demonstration
TEHRAN, Dec 3 (AFP) - The interior ministry has forbidden a student
demonstration planned to take place in Tehran on December 6 to mark the
annual "Students Day," press reports said here Sunday. The interior
ministry, charged with giving permits for all kinds of rallies, notably
those of a political nature, rejected the student request, papers said,
adding that the police had also issued a ban on "all gatherings."
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