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* Lawyer for families of assassination
victims freed on bail: press
* High-profile reformist journalist denies all charges
* Kurdish students beaten, arrested in "peaceful"
Tehran demonstration : MP
* Journalists' guild lashes out against judiciary for press
crackdown
* Lawyer in chain murders case arrested after speech
* Hamshahri banned outside Tehran
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Friday
December 15, 2000
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Thursday
December 14, 2000
Lawyer for families of assassination victims freed on bail: press
TEHRAN, Dec 14 (AFP) - A lawyer for the families of two Iranian dissidents
assassinated in 1998 was released on bail three days after his arrest,
a newspaper said Thursday. Nasser Zarafshan, who was arrested Sunday just
days before the trial of the alleged killers begins in a Tehran military
court, was freed Wednesday on 27,000 dollars bail, the Khorassan paper
said >>>
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Wednesday
December 13, 2000
High-profile reformist journalist denies all charges
TEHRAN, Dec 13 (AFP) - High-profile Iranian journalist Massud Behnud
denied Wednesday a battery of serious charges levelled at him in Tehran's
press court, including offending public morals and acting against national
security. The 52-year-old Behnud, in jail since August, wrote for several
of the pro-reform newspapers closed by the conservative courts since a
press crackdown was launched in April >>>
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Kurdish students beaten, arrested in "peaceful" Tehran
demonstration : MP
TEHRAN, Dec 13 (AFP) - A number of Kurdish students were beaten and
arrested during a peaceful demonstration at the University of Tehran, a
Kurdish MP said Wednesday. Bahaeddine Adab, who represents the principal
Kurdish area of Sanandaj and is close to the conservatives, reported the
incident in parliament, where he denounced the "secret police"
for not respecting the right to demonstrate >>>
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Tuesday
December 12, 2000
Journalists' guild lashes out against judiciary for press crackdown
TEHRAN, Dec 12 (AFP) - Iran's pro-reform journalists' guild has vehemently
denounced the arrest of journalists and the conservative-led judiciary's
crackdown on the country's press since April. In an open letter Sunday
to judiciary chief Ayatollah Mahmud Hashemi Shahroudi, a copy of which
was received by AFP, the guild criticised the way in which journalists
and writers were being treated, saying the judiciary's arguments for the
mass suspensions and the arrest of journalists lacked foundation >>> FULL TEXT
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Monday
December 11, 2000
Lawyer in chain murders case arrested after speech
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A lawyer for the families of two dissidents killed
in 1998 was arrested after he gave a speech about the slayings, a fellow
attorney said Monday. Naser Zarafshan, who represents the families of slain
pro-reform writers Mohammad Jafar Pouyandeh and Mohammad Mokhtari, was
detained Sunday on orders from a military court, said the lawyer, who spoke
on condition of anonymity >>>
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Hamshahri banned outside Tehran
TEHRAN, Dec 11 (AFP) - Iranian press court Monday banned top-selling
Iranian daily Hamshahri, published by the municipality of Tehran, from
being distributed outside the capital, official IRNA news agency said.
Founded in 1992 by former-mayor Gholamhossain Karbastshi, Hamshahri has
a 460,000 circulation and is read throughout the country >>>
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Press court suspends another reform newspaper
TEHRAN, Dec 9 (AFP) - An Iranian press court suspended publication for
three months of Ahrar, a reform newpaper in the northern city of Tabriz,
the official news agency IRNA reported Saturday. The court found the newspaper's
director, Mohammed Hossein Kuzeh-Gar, guilty of printing false information,
IRNA said >>>
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Montazeri's son arrested
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A son of Iran's most prominent dissident cleric
has been arrested for distributing his father's memoirs, his brother said
Sunday. Saeed Montazeri made 100 photocopies of the 1,600-page book, which
describes the political life of Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri,
according to Saeed's brother, Ahmad Montazeri >>>
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