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* Remaining three Iranian Jews submit
appeals
* Iran Jews defense files appeal
* Court holds second hearing for pro-reform lawyers
* IRNA reports threats from fundamentalists
* Khatami's brother summoned to court
* Reformist newspaper boss convicted
* Culture minister publishes new edition of book on Rushdie
* Kadivar freed, Baghi jailed
* Students stage sit-in
* Pressure mounts on courts after verdict
* Iran wants return of its diaspora
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Friday
July 21, 2000
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Thursday
July 20, 2000
Remaining three Iranian Jews convicted of espionage submit appeals
TEHRAN, July 20 (AFP) - All 10 Iranian Jews sentenced to prison earlier
this month for involvement in an alleged Israeli espionage ring have now
submitted appeals after three of them filed motions Thursday, chief defence
lawyer Ismail Nasseri told AFP. The legal requests will be forwarded to
an appeals court within a week, he said >>>
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Wednesday
July 19, 2000
Iran Jews defense files appeal
TEHRAN, July 19 (AFP) - Seven of the 10 Iranian Jews sentenced to prison
earlier this month after allegations of spying for Israel submitted appeals
Wednesday, their chief defence lawyer told AFP. "This morning, we
submitted our requests for seven of the men, and will submit the appeal
for Hamid Teflin, Farzad Kashi and Asher Zadmehr on Thursday," Ismail
Nasseri said >>>
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Court holds second hearing for pro-reform lawyers
TEHRAN, July 19 (AFP) - An Iranian court held a second hearing Wednesday
for two of the country's leading pro-reform lawyers, who are charged with
producing videocassettes that implicated top fundamentalists in terrorism,
the state news agency IRNA reported. No details were given about the closed-door
hearing on Mohsen Rahami and Shirin Ebadi, who are being tried along with
six other people for making videocassettes in which a conservative militant
described government leaders' roles in violence >>>
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IRNA reports threats from fundamentalists
TEHRAN, July 19 (AFP) - Iran's official IRNA news agency said Wednesday
it has been flooded over the past two days by threatening anonymous phone
calls from Islamic fundamentalist circles. IRNA said the "organized
threatening phone calls" came after the agency criticized the conservative
Kayhan daily >>>
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Tuesday
July 18, 2000
Khatami's brother summoned to court
TEHRAN, July 18 (AFP) - Two leading members of Iran's Islamic Participation
Front (IIPF), including Iranian President Mohammad Khatami's brother, have
been summoned by Tehran's judiciary, the official IRNA news agency reported
Tuesday. Mohammad-Reza Khatami, head of the left-wing reformist coalition
that dominates parliament, and Mohsen Mirdamadi, head of parliament's national
security and foreign policy council, must appear at Tehran's central court
on Wednesday, IRNA said >>>
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Reformist newspaper boss convicted
TEHRAN, July 18 (AFP) - An Iranian jury Monday found the editor of the
banned reformist daily Arya guilty, after only his second appearance before
the press court, according to a statement released by Tehran's Palace of
Justice. "The jury found Hamid Reza Zohdi guilty of provoking public
opinion by publishing false information, defamation and insults, notably
of violating the election law in his newspaper," said the statement
as quoted by the official news agency IRNA >>>
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Culture minister, Ataollah Mohajerani, publishes new edition of book
on Rushdie
TEHRAN, July 17 (AFP) - A new edition has been issued of Culture Minister
Ataollah Mohajerani's book on Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses,"
in which the Iranian official says the British novelist's work is part
of a plot against Islam. The 12th run of Mohajerani's book, which has just
hit Tehran bookstores, examines Rushdie's book "in the historical
context of the battle between the West and Islam." >>>
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Monday
July 17, 2000
Kadivar freed, Baghi jailed
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Reformist cleric Mohsen Kadivar, a leading theoretician
of Iran's Islamic modernist movement, has been released from jail after
serving an 18-month sentence for political and religious dissent. But Iranian
newspapers Monday quoted him as saying his release was temporary and that
he expected new charges from the same clerical court that convicted him
in 1998 >>>
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Students stage sit-in
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Leaders of Iran's largest student group began a
sit-in outside the parliament buildings Sunday to protest the acquittal
of police forces on charges of storming a student hostel last July. Eight
leaders of the pro-reform Office for Fostering Unity sat on blankets in
front of the reformist-dominated parliament, or Majlis, to demand justice
and denounce the ``judiciary's double-standard practices.'' >>>
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Pressure mounts on courts after verdict
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's biggest student movement staged a sit-in outside
parliament Sunday, part of mounting pressure on the judiciary after the
acquittal of police charged with the bloody suppression of a campus protest
last year. Seven leaders of the Office to Consolidate Unity (OCU) sat quietly
on a blanket, fasting in the hot summer sunshine in protest at the court's
acquittal of Tehran's former police chief, for an attack on students on
July 8-9, 1999, sparking the worst social unrest in almost two decades
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Iran wants return of its diaspora
TEHRAN, July 15 (AFP) - The government of President Mohammad Khatami
has stepped up its appeals in the last few weeks for the return of Iranian
exiles who fled to Europe and the United States after the 1979 Islamic
revolution. "Twenty years after the revolution, the leaders and Iranian
citizens living in the west have a common concern, which is the welfare
of Iranian children born abroad," the Bahar newspaper, which is close
to the presidency, said Saturday >>>
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