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Thursday
July 27, 2000
Amnesty open letter to members of Iran's Sixth Majles
25 July 2000
The following is the text of an Open Letter from Amnesty International's
Secretary General to members of the Sixth Majles-e Shoura-ye Eslami (Islamic
Consultative Assembly)
Your Excellencies,
I am writing to you as Secretary General of Amnesty International on
the occasion of your recent election to the Sixth Majles-e Shoura-ye Eslami
(Islamic Consultative Assembly). We are greatly encouraged by the public
statements made by some of your members expressing their commitment to
defend fundamental freedoms, as well as some concrete moves to ease constraints
on freedom of expression. We hope that your term of office in the next
four years will be memorable for the advancements made in promoting a program
of legal and administrative reform enabling all the people of Iran to enjoy
to the full their internationally recognised human rights >>>
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PEN expresses sympathy for Shamlou's death
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, July 26, 2000 -- Dear Colleagues, On behalf of
the 2,700 writers who are members of PEN American Center, we wish to express
our deepest condolence at the death of our esteemed colleague, Ahmad Shamlou,
who passed away on the evening of July 23 in his native Iran >>>
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* PEN expresses sympathy for Shamlou's
death
* Amnesty open letter to members of Iran's Sixth Majles
* Media wage war of attrition
* Iranian asylum-seekers on hunger strike in France
* Another reformist paper ordered closed by a Tehran court
* Tehran University students welcome release of pro-reform
lawyers
* Holy City Cracks Down on Loud Pop Music
* IRNA chief summoned to Tehran's press court * Lawyers freed on bail
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Wednesday
July 26, 2000
Media wage war of attrition
TEHRAN, July 26 (AFP) - An unprecedented war of words between Iran's
official news agency IRNA and the conservative daily Kayhan, two of the
leading news providers in the Islamic republic, is escalating into a war
of attrition. The fight has seen the two news bodies publicly trade insults
and accuse each other of being "in the pocket of foreigners"
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Iranian asylum-seekers on hunger strike in France
July 26, 2000, (From International Federation of Iranian Refugees) --
Some 250 Iranians seeking asylum in France have gone on a hunger strike.
They are being held in inhuman conditions at a camp near the port of March
(?) >>>
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Tuesday
July 25, 2000
Another reformist paper ordered closed by a Tehran court
TEHRAN, July 25 (AFP) - Tehran's public court Tuesday order the closure
of the reformist Iranian Gunagoun (variety) weekly, the official IRNA news
agency reported. According to IRNA, the court ordered a "temporary
closure," charging that the paper represents a re-emergence of the
suspended pro-reform Jame-eh, Tous, Neshat and Asre-Azadegan papers >>> FULL
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Tehran University students welcome release of pro-reform lawyers
TEHRAN, July 25 (AFP) - Several hundred Tehran University students gathered
Tuesday to welcome two leading pro-reform lawyers who were recently released
after a month of detention by the conservative-dominated judiciary. Mohsen
Rahami and Shirin Ebadi were set free on bond Saturday after nearly four
weeks in detention on charges they made videocassettes that implicated
top fundamentalist government leaders in terrorist activities >>> FULL TEXT
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Holy City Cracks Down on Loud Pop Music
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Authorities in an Iranian holy Muslim city have launched
a crackdown on pop music, arresting dozens of youths for playing loud music
on their car stereos, a newspaper reported Tuesday. Police also seized
some 80 cars during a weekend outing at a recreational center outside the
northeastern city of Mashhad, site of a major Shi'ite Muslim shrine, the
Qods newspaper said >>>
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Monday
July 24, 2000
IRNA chief summoned to Tehran's press court
TEHRAN, July 23 (AFP) - The head of the Iran's state news agency IRNA
appeared at Tehran's press court Sunday following numerous complaints lodged
against him in his former capacity as director of the government-run newspaper
Iran, IRNA reported. "I was summoned to answer to 24 old complaints
and some 30 new complaints lodged against me as the former director of
the Iran paper," Ferydoon Verdinejad said after the court hearing,
as cited by IRNA
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Lawyers freed on bail
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Officials released on bail Saturday two pro-reform
lawyers jailed in connection with a videotape that alleged links between
hard-line politicians and Islamic vigilante attacks, according to a relative.
Mohsen Rahami, a university professor and cleric, and Shirin Ebadi, a pro-democracy
and women's rights activist, were arrested late last month because of allegations
against some officials made in the tape recording >>>
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Friday
July 21, 2000
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