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* Reformist Nuri returns to prison after three-day leave
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* Hardliner accepts defeat
* Post-election unrest leaves three more dead
* Tehran joyous but calm as reformers romp to victory
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Friday
February 25, 2000
* U.S. State Department human report on Iran
February 25, 2000 (U.S. State Department) -- The [Iranian] government's
human rights record remained poor; although efforts within society to make
the Government accountable for its human rights policies intensified, serious
problems remain. The Government restricts citizens' right to change their
government. Systematic abuses include extrajudicial killings and summary
executions; disappearances; widespread use of torture and >>>
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Thursday
February 24, 2000
* Fraud charges mar final stage of Iran polls
TEHRAN, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Iranian officials on Thursday delayed releasing
final poll results for Tehran amid allegations of vote-rigging in a tight
race for the last of the capital's 30 parliamentary seats. Officials told
Reuters they were investigating charges that 100 ballot boxes were stuffed
with fraudulent votes. Another 100 boxes had yet to be counted out of a
total of 3,111 across the city, they said >>>
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Wednesday
February 23, 2000
* One dead, 11 hurt in alleged attack by elite troops on air base
TEHRAN, Feb 23 (AFP) - Armed attackers alleged to be from the elite
Revolutionary Guards killed one airman and wounded 11 in an assault on
Iran's biggest air base at Shiraz, the Iranian daily Sobh-e emruz reported
Wednesday >>>
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* Tehran police face court martial next week over bloody unrest
TEHRAN, Feb 23 (AFP) - Tehran's sacked police chief and 19 other officers
face public court martial next week over the violent suppression of a student
demonstration last July, Tehran University said Wednesday. In an official
statement quoted by the official news agency IRNA the university said the
first hearing against Farhad Nazari and his colleagues in open session
would be held Tuesday >>>
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* Khamenei pardons students jailed for "blasphemous" play
TEHRAN, Feb 23 (AFP) - Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
has pardoned two students jailed for publishing an allegedly blasphemous
play in a university magazine, press reports said Monday >>>
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* Reformist Nuri returns to prison after three-day leave
TEHRAN, Feb 23 (AFP) - Former Iranian interior minister and leading
reformist Abdullah Nuri, who is serving a five-year sentence for "anti-Islamic
propaganda", returned to prison Wednesday after three days leave.
Nuri, an influential reformist figure, was freed on Sunday from north Tehran's
notorious Evin prison for a three-day home leave >>>
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Tuesday
February 22, 2000
* Triumphant reformers set out programme for more open Iran
TEHRAN, Feb 22 (AFP) - Hot on the heels of their landslide victory in
parliamentary elections, Iran's reformers Tuesday set out their programme
for a more open society, vowing to open up to the foreign media and even
the long-hated United States. Emboldened by their capture of parliament,
long a bastion of their conservative opponents, the reformers also pledged
to end a five-year-old ban on satellite dishes aimed at shutting out the
foreign media >>>
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* Hardliner accepts defeat
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A top hard-line ideologue has accepted defeat in
Iran's parliamentary elections, saying in a report today that his camp
will have to reconsider its policies. An influential reformer, meanwhile,
has said talks with the United States would not be a ``sin.'' Talks with
the United States, a more liberal press and increased personal freedoms
are expected to be among the issues discussed in the next Parliament, or
Majlis, which will be seated in June >>>
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* Post-election unrest leaves three more dead, two wounded
TEHRAN, Feb 22 (AFP) - Post-election unrest has left three more dead,
including one child, and two injured, across Iran, the evening daily newspaper
Kayhan said Tuesday. Two people were killed and two others injured in the
first incident when a coach hired by supporters of one candidate passed
through a village near the southern city of Lordeghan where the locals
supported a rival candidate, the paper said >>>
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Monday
February 21, 2000
* Tehran joyous but calm as reformers romp to victory
TEHRAN, Feb 21 (AFP) - By previous standards of celebration, Tehran
residents have been relatively subdued as Iranian reformers romped to victory
at the polls, but no less joyous. When President Mohammad Khatami was elected
in 1997, "it was so unexpected, we danced. When Iran beat the United
States (in the 1998 World Cup), there was an explosion of fierce national
pride. We were a reborn country," said 35-year-old draughtsman Iradj
Tabei >>>
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* Iran upholds death sentence on student leader in riots
TEHRAN, Feb 21 (AFP) - Iran's courts have upheld the death sentence
on a student leader found guilty of instigating deadly riots in Tehran
last year, a newspaper reported Monday. The courts upheld the sentence
against Akbar Mohammadi, one of three students sentenced to die for their
role in July's disturbances, the Asr-e-Azadegan paper said.
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