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Friday
July 14, 2000
PEN writes to Khatami to protest lawyers' detention
On behalf of the 2,700 writers who are members of PEN American Center,
we write again this time to protest the detention of Shirin Ebadi and Mohsen
Rahami, two leading pro-reform lawyers. Their imprisonment is another blow
to the course of reform underway in Iran and speaks to the precarious situation
facing writers and intellectuals >>>
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* PEN writes to Khatami to protest lawyers'
detention
* Three political dissidents released
* Leniency possible in Jewish spy case appeal-Khatami
* Lawyer for Iran Jews raises torture allegations
* Cleric shot on student unrest anniversary
* Reformist MPs decry acquittal of police
* Former police chief acquitted
* Students stunned by verdict clearing police
* Judiciary "acquitted crime," student group says
* Deputy minister testifies in "tape-makers" case
* INS mulls Iranian dissident's fate
* Youth, elderly join Iran students in angry outburst
* Khamenei blames unrest on Western plot
* Reformist newspaper boss goes on trial in Tehran
* Security forces make more arrests
* Woman sentenced to death by stoning
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Thursday
July 13, 2000
Three political dissidents released
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Three political dissidents belonging to a small
opposition group have had their sentences commuted and are out of jail,
a party official confirmed Thursday. The three members of the Iran Nation
Party - Khosrow Seif, Behzad Namazi and Farzin Mokhber - were released
Tuesday after serving one year, the official told The Associated Press
on condition of anonymity >>>
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Leniency possible in Jewish spy case appeal-Khatami
BERLIN, July 12 (Reuters) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami on Wednesday
defended Iran's conviction of 10 Jews for spying for Israel and suggested
leniency might be shown when the case goes to appeal. The 10 Iranian Jews
were sentenced this month to between four and 13 years in prison after
being convicted of providing secret information to Israel. Two Moslems
-- a military officer and a defence contractor -- were jailed for two years
each >>>
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Lawyer for Iran Jews raises torture allegations
TEHRAN, July 13 (Reuters) - Iranian prosecutors resorted to unlawful
methods, which could be defined as torture under Islamic law, to extract
confessions from Iranian Jews convicted of espionage, a lawyer for the
convicted men said on Thursday. ``Solitary confinement before court hearings
is considered a form of torture by Islamic traditions and the constitution
has banned torture as a means of getting confessions,'' Esmail Nasseri,
lead defence lawyer for nine of the 10 Jews, told Reuters on Thursday >>> FULL
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Cleric shot on student unrest anniversary
TEHRAN, July 13 (AFP) - An Iranian cleric, Mohammad-Reza Bozorgi Araqi
was shot and injured by two unknown men in the early hours of Sunday morning,
following commemorations of the first anniversary of a bloody police attack
against a Tehran university dormitory, the conservative Qods paper reported
Thursday. According to the paper, Bozorgi Araqi, was shot in the stomach
shortly after midnight in front of his house >>>
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Wednesday
July 12, 2000
Reformist MPs decry acquittal of police for attack on university
TEHRAN, July 12 (AFP) - MPs and other politicians close to reformist
President Mohammad Khatami Wednesday decried a court verdict in which the
former police chief of Tehran and 17 other police were acquitted for a
bloody assault on Tehran University last year. On Tuesday, a military court
acquitted the former Tehran police chief, Farhad Nazari, and his men of
all charges against them arising from the attack he led on university dormitories
last July, which sparked several days of riots that led to deaths and injuries
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Tuesday
July 11, 2000
Former police chief acquitted
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A military court acquitted a former Tehran police
chief Tuesday of ordering the storming of a student hostel that left one
person dead, Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency reported. The
acquittal of Brig. Gen. Farhad Nazari and 17 other fellow police officers
was promptly condemned by a liberal member of parliament and a student
leader >>>
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Students stunned by verdict clearing police in dorm attack case
TEHRAN, July 11 (AFP) - Stunned Students at Tehran University said Tuesday
that they will not accept a court verdict that exonerated the policemen
who violently attacked their university dormitories last July, sparking
several days of riots. A military court earlier Tuesday acquitted former
Tehran police chief, Farhad Nazari, and 17 of his men, of all charges against
them. >>>
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Judiciary "acquitted crime," student group says
TEHRAN, July 11 (AFP) - A banned pro-reform student group said Tuesday
that the Iranian judiciary "acquitted crime and corruption" by
giving innocent verdicts to the police officers who attacked the Tehran
University campus last July. "Where is the saviour who will come to
our aide? Has the voice of justice been smothered in the students' wounded
chest?" asked the Reformist Association, which noted that the verdict
came down while reformist President Mohammad Khatami was on a state visit
to Germany >>>
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Deputy interior minister testifies in "tape-makers" case
TEHRAN, July 11 (AFP) - Iran's Deputy Interior Minister Mostafa Tajzadeh
testified Tuesday in the case of two reformist lawyers accused of making
tapes against Iranian leaders, the official agency IRNA reported. The trial
of two leading pro-reform lawyers, Shirin Ebadi and Mohsen Rahami who were
arrested along with six other people last month "on charges of disturbing
public opinion" in connection with taped remarks against some officials
of the Islamic republic, is expected to begin on July 15 >>>
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INS mulls Iranian dissident's fate
WASHINGTON (AP) - An Iranian dissident spared deportation to her homeland
by a U.S. immigration court still could be ordered to a third country,
the Immigration and Naturalization Service said Tuesday. Mahnaz Samadi,
35, had been in INS custody for three months after she was found to have
been a member of a group designated by the State Department as a sponsor
of terrorism >>>
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Monday
July 10, 2000
Youth, elderly join Iran students in angry outburst
TEHRAN, July 9 (Reuters) - Out-of-work youth, women and old men joined
angry students in Iran's worst outburst of social unrest in the past year,
creating a combustible mix that has left reformers scrambling to keep up
with society's demands. Photo here The trouble began on Saturday after
student rallies to mark the first anniversary of the bloody suppression
of a pro-democracy rally turned into a general expression of social discontent
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Khamenei blames unrest on Western plot
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei blamed
Western powers Sunday for the country's worst social unrest in the past
year, saying they planned to destroy the Islamic republic as they had the
Soviet Union. Khamenei summoned senior officials, including reformist President
Mohammad Khatami and members of parliament to his residence a day after
the unrest in a show of unity at the top >>>
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Security forces make more arrests at dorms incident rally
TEHRAN, July 10 (AFP) - Six people were arrested in the northwestern
city of Tabriz Saturday during a gathering to mark the anniversary of the
police storming of Tehran University dormitories, reports said Monday.
According to the conservative Kayhan paper, police forces arrested "six
unidentified persons" following an unauthorized (student) gathering
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Reformist newspaper boss goes on trial in Tehran
TEHRAN July 10 (AFP) - The publisher of the banned reformist daily,
Arya, went on trial Monday following complaints filed by Tehran's Chief
Justice and Armed Forces Intelligence Unit, the conservative Kayhan daily
reported. "Hamid Reza Zohdi is accused of provoking public opinion,
publishing malicious lies, insulting the state, eroding the regime of the
Islamic Republic and (printing) anti-state propaganda," said the daily
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Woman sentenced to death by stoning for murder and adultery
TEHRAN, July 9 (AFP) - An Iranian woman has been sentenced to death
by stoning for adultery after murdering her husband and burying his body
with the help of her lover, the press reported Sunday. Maryam Ayubi, 30,
was found guilty of adultery with her lover, Hossein Asna-Ashari, and of
complicity in the murder of her husband, the press reports said, adding
that the adulterous couple killed the husband, burned his body and then
abandoned it in a desert area south of Tehran >>>
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