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* Iran readies for trial in political
killings that shocked nation
* Families of murder victims decide not to attend trial
* Germany condemns Iranian charges of Berlin conference
participants
* Thief has fingers chopped off in punishment
* Two dissidents arrested
* Reformist student leader arrested
* Pro-reform journalist freed on bail
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Friday
December 22, 2000
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Thursday
December 21, 2000
Iran readies for trial in political killings that shocked nation
TEHRAN, Dec 21 (AFP) - Iran on Saturday will open the much-anticipated
trial of 18 men accused of carrying out the brutal 1998 serial killings
of several leading dissidents and intellectuals that shocked the nation.
The assassinations, blamed on a network of "rogue" agents within
the secret police, and the controversy that has dogged the case have underscored
the still explosive political tension in the country >>>
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Wednesday
December 20, 2000
Families of murder victims decide not to attend trial
TEHRAN, Dec 20 (AFP) - Relatives of several slain dissidents and intellectuals
have dismissed their legal team in the latest twist to the controversial
case, the official IRNA news agency said Wednesday. The dismissal comes
just three days before the long-awaited trial of the alleged murderers
is due to open in a Tehran military court on Saturday in a case that has
galvanized public attention for more than two years >>>
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Germany condemns Iranian charges of Berlin conference participants
December 20, Berlin (dpa) - Germany on Wednesday condemned charges made
against 17 Iranian nationals who attended an Iran conference in Berlin
earlier this year sponsored by the Greens Party. ``The German government
views the charges ... as wrong,'' said an official reply by Chancellor
Gerhard Schroeder's government published by parliament >>>
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Thief has fingers chopped off in punishment
TEHRAN, Dec 20 (AFP) - A serial thief has had the fingers of his right
hand chopped off as punishment, in line with the nation's strict version
of sharia, or Islamic, law, press reports said Wednesday. The amputation
was ordered for the unidentified man by a court in the central town of
Shahreza, the Kayhan paper said. It did not give the date or any further
details >>>
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Tuesday
December 19, 2000
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Monday
December 18, 2000
Two dissidents arrested
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Two leading Iranian dissidents were arrested Sunday
on charges of insulting Iran's supreme leader. Ezatollah Sahabi, a member
of the dissident Freedom Movement that opposes Iran's clerical rule, was
interrogated and arrested on the orders of the hard-line Tehran Revolutionary
Court, said Reza Alijani, an editor of the now banned Iran-e-Farda magazine
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Reformist student leader arrested
TEHRAN, Dec 17 (AFP) - The reformist student leader Ali Afshari was
arrested Sunday by order of a revolutionary court, a judicial source said
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Pro-reform journalist freed on bail
TEHRAN, Dec 16 (AFP) - Veteran pro-reform Iranian journalist Massud
Behnud, facing a battery of serious charges including harming national
security, was freed on bail Saturday, his lawyer said. Behnud was released
after putting up his house as collateral, lawyer Amir Hossein Abadi told
the state IRNA news agency >>>
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