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Friday
June 2, 2000
* Iranian Jews 'unlikely to get harsh sentences'
By Guy Dinmore in Tehran, Financial Times, June 2, 2000, Thirteen Iranian
Jews accused of spying for Israel are not expected to receive harsh sentences,
a senior Iranian official said on Thursday commenting on a trial that has
raised international concern and threatens to set back Tehran's developing
ties with the west >>>
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* Justice rather than Jews seen on trial in Iran
LONDON, June 1 (Reuters) - To most international observers, the trial
of 13 Iranian Jews on charges of spying for Israel has been more of an
indictment of Iran's justice system than of the accused. With a verdict
expected within two weeks, few if any lawyers, human rights activists or
Western government analysts following the case have been convinced either
by televised confessions broadcast during the closed-door trial, or by
the judiciary's selective leaking of other evidence >>>
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Index
* Iranian Jews 'unlikely to get harsh
sentences'
* Justice rather than Jews seen on trial in Iran
* Khatami adviser summoned to appear before
press court
* Journalists launch campaign
* Two Muslims arrested in spy case
* Eight Iranian refugees die on Bosnia-Croatia border
* Iranian sentenced to death in Dubai
* Fatwa plan to kill Khatami
* Reformers are in majority, but not completely in control
* Four reformers proclaimed winners
* First ever woman elected to parliament
office
* Reform journalist jailed
* Iran Muslims also accused of spying
* Eighteen Iraqi and Iranian refugees remain
in prison
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Thursday
June 1, 2000
* Khatami adviser summoned to appear before press court
TEHRAN, June 1 (AFP) - A reformist journalist and adviser to Iranian
President Mohammad Khatami has been summoned to answer charges before the
country's press court, the daily Bahar reported Thursday. Ali Rabii, director
of Kar-o-Karegar daily, and his deputy, Morteza Lotfi, have both been the
target of numerous complaints from state radio and television, the police
and two former MPs, the reformist paper reported >>>
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Wednesday
May 31, 2000
* Journalists launch campaign
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - An Iranian guild of journalists has launched a campaign
to reopen 19 publications shut down by hard-liners cracking down on reformist
press, a guild official said Wednesday. One month after the media crackdown
by the conservative-controlled judiciary, more than 1,000 journalists remain
out of work, said Karim Arqandehpour, deputy head of the Journalists' Guild
Association >>>
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* Two Muslims arrested in spy case
May 31, SHIRAZ, Iran (AP) - A judicial official said that two Muslim
suspects detained Wednesday in the espionage trial of 13 Iranian Jews had
been lured by women and alcohol into an Israeli spy ring. The two men were
charged with providing Israel with military and economic information, as
well as reporting to Jewish spies on Lebanese and Palestinians living in
Iran, provincial judiciary chief Hossein Ali Amiri said >>>
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* Eight Iranian refugees die on Bosnia-Croatia border
May 31, (International Federation of Iranian Refugees) -- Eight Iranian
refugess have either died or gone missing after their boat capsized on
a river in Bosnia. They were hoping to reach Italy >>>
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* Iranian sentenced to death in Dubai
DUBAI, May 31 (AFP) - An Iranian convicted of stabbing to death a woman
he wanted to marry after suspecting she had been a prostitute has been
sentenced to death in the Gulf emirate of Dubai, a newspaper reported Wednesday
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Tuesday
May 30, 2000
* First ever woman elected to parliament office
TEHRAN, May 30 (AFP) - The new Iranian parliament Tuesday elected a
woman to the committee that oversees parliament's affairs from day to day,
the first time a woman has held such a position since the Islamic Revolution.
Soheila Jolodarzadeh, a member of the left-wing Islamic Labor Party, is
aformer labor militant who helped mobilize workers in favor of the 1979
revolution >>>
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* Reform journalist jailed
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - An Iranian court ordered a reformist journalist
jailed on Monday, his wife said, the latest sign of a crackdown on pro-reform
media and writers. Emadeddin Baqi was taken to Evin prison after being
tried in a press court with no jury, said his wife, Fatemeh Kamali >>>
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* Iran Muslims also accused of spying
SHIRAZ, Iran (AP) - Eight Muslims accused along with 13 Iranian Jews
of spying for Israel were providing the Jewish state with information on
Arabs living in Iran, a judiciary official said Tuesday. ``The Muslim defendants
were giving Israel information on Palestinian and Lebanese residents in
Iran. It was very important information,'' said judiciary chief Hossein
Amiri in the first public comments on the charges against the eight Muslim
defendants >>>
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