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Friday
July 7, 2000
Soroush and Kadivar win human rights grants
(New York) July 4, 2000 -- Human Rights Watch today announced a diverse
group of writers from 22 countries to receive grants recognizing their
courage in the face of political persecution >>>
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* Soroush and Kadivar win human rights
grants
* Three reported killed in unrest in Abadan
* Five arrested over videotape
* Pro-reform lawyers to be tried in secret
* France linked to Dutch police break up of immigrant network
* Press court summons conservative newspaper chiefs
* Students plan peaceful protests
* Former Tehran riot squad officer jailed over student unrest
* Pro-reform newspaper editors launch hunger-strike
* Iranian Jews in Israel call for solidarity with spy defendants
* Iran calls on UN to help free Iranians "kidnapped"
by Israel
* Students to mark anniversary of unrest
with flowers
* Prominent reformists denounce Sahgabi's arrest
* Jewish leaders fear emigration
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Thursday
July 6, 2000
Three reported killed in unrest in Abadan
TEHRAN, July 6 (AFP) - Three people were killed late Wednesday in clashes
with security forces in the southern Iranian city of Abadan during riots
over a lack of drinking water, a press report said Thursday. The security
forces moved in to prevent the sacking of the town by angry protesters,
the conservative Jomhuri Eslami reported >>>
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Five arrested over videotape
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Five people were arrested and charged with helping
make a controversial videotape featuring an Islamic vigilante group member
discussing his links to hardline politicians, state-run Tehran radio reported
Thursday. The five men were briefly detained for ``their role in preparing
and distributing the videotape,'' the radio quoted a Tehran Justice Administration
statement as saying >>>
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Pro-reform lawyers to be tried in secret
TEHRAN, July 6 (AFP) - Two leading Iranian pro-reform lawyers arrested
last month will go on trial next week behind closed doors with six other
people over video-cassettes which point the finger at top officials, the
state news agency IRNA reported Thursday. It quoted a Tehran judiciary
statement as saying that Shirin Ebadi and Mohsen Rahami would be tried
on July 15 >>>
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France linked to Dutch police break up of immigrant network
THE HAGUE, July 6 (AFP) - Dutch police said Thursday that they had broken
up three major illegal immigration networks run by Iranians who had entered
the country using visas provided by the French embassy in Tehran. A total
of 60 people -- 54 Iranians, three Iraqis, two Algerians and a Romanian
-- have been arrested since September 1999, police said >>>
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Press court summons conservative newspaper chiefs
TEHRAN, July 6 (AFP) - Two conservative daily newspaper directors have
been summoned to appear before Tehran's press court, the official IRNA
news agency reported Thursday. Hossein Shariatmadari, head of Kayhan, and
Morteza Nabavi, director of Resalaat, have been summoned following the
publication of articles in connection with taped remarks against some officials
of the Islamic Republic of Iran>>>
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Wednesday
July 5, 2000
Students plan peaceful protests to mark anniversary of violence
TEHRAN, July 5 (AFP) - Iranian students who risked their lives last
year to protest the closure of a reformist newspaper will mark the first
anniversary of a violent police intervention, which sparked widespread
unrest, by handing out flowers. Reformist student groups, cautiously optimistic
about the post-parliamentary elections political game, have called on their
supporters to join in giving "flowers to the people" at major
intersections in Tehran on Saturday >>>
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Former Tehran riot squad officer jailed over student unrest
TEHRAN, July 4 (AFP) - The former head of a Tehran riot squad was recently
jailed in connection with investigations into last July's assault on students
which triggered mass unrest across the country, the government-run Iran
paper said Tuesday >>>
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Pro-reform newspaper editors launch hunger-strike to mark student
unrest
TEHRAN, July 5 (AFP) - Three jailed reformist Iranian newspaper editors
will stage a hunger strike to mark the first anniversary of a violent police
assault on a Tehran University, the government-run Iran paper reported
Wednesday. "Ezatollah Sahabi, Mashallah Shamsolvaezin, and Latif Safari,
who are serving a prison sentence following the recent suspension of their
papers, have announced that they will perform a political fasting on Friday
and Saturday to mark the anniversary of the unrest," the paper said >>> FULL
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Iranian Jews in Israel call for solidarity with spy defendants
HOLON, Israel, July 5 (AFP) - In this town near Tel Aviv, the center
of Israel's 200,000-strong community of Iranian Jews, the mood is grim
and angry after an Iranian court sentenced 10 Jews to prison on charges
of spying for Israel >>>
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Iran calls on UN to help free Iranians "kidnapped" by Israel
TEHRAN, July 5 (AFP) - Iran has called on the United Nations to help
secure the release of four of its nationals "kidnapped by the Zionist
regime" after they disappeared in Lebanon 18 years ago, the official
IRNA news agency reported Tuesday >>>
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July 4, 2000
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Monday
July 3, 2000
Students to mark anniversary of unrest with flowers
TEHRAN, July 3 (AFP) - Pro-reform Iranian students said Monday they
will mark the one-year anniversary of a police assault on a Tehran University
dormitory by handing out flowers at major intersections throughout the
capital. The peaceful protest is being termed "reforms with a smile,"
said representatives of two student organizations, the Office of Unity
and Consolidation and the Islamic Student Organization >>>
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Prominent reformists denounce Sahgabi's arrest
TEHRAN, July 2 (AFP) - Nearly 300 Iranian political figures and academics
have drafted an open letter denouncing the recent arrest of Ezzatollah
Sahabi, a leader in Iran's progressive opposition. "We ask for the
unconditional release of Mr. Sahabi, a moderate-minded patriot and longstanding
fighter and a high official in the provisional government at the start
of the revolution," wrote the 276 signers of the letter, which will
be published in the press >>>
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Jewish leaders fear emigration
SHIRAZ, Iran (AP) - Iranian Jewish leaders said Sunday they fear a wave
of Jewish emigration from Iran following a court's decision to convict
10 Jews of spying for Israel and sentence them to prison terms. The Jews
were among 13 suspects arrested more than a year ago in this officially
Islamic, fiercely anti-Israel nation >>>
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