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May 30-June 2, 2000 / Khordad 10-13, 1379

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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Monday
May 22 2000

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As of December 31, 1998 (Committee to Protect Journalists) - Since President Muhammad Khatemi took office in August 1997, Iran's press has benefited from his agenda of social and political reforms. Newspapers are now tackling political subjects that would have been unthinkable only a year earlier. But almost as quickly as journalists realized their new freedoms, the press found itself the target of a relentless attacks from hard-line supporters of Iran's spiritual guide Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ... FULL TEXT

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