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June 5-9, 2000 / Khordad 16-20, 1379
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Friday
June 9, 2000
Guardian Council overturns result, raises fear of demonstrations
TEHRAN, June 9 (AFP) - Iran's polls watchdog has overturned the election
of a reformist candidate in favour of his conservative rival in a southwestern
city, raising fears of protest demonstrations, the official news agency
IRNA said Friday. The Guardians Council, which is overwhelmingly conservative,
quashed the election of Rahman Karghosha in the industrial city of Arak
because of numerous complaints and discrepancies in the ballots, IRNA said
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UN women forum wtruggles with abortion, sex rights
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - In the last hours of a U.N. women's conference,
delegates from 180 nations struggled on Friday to resolve controversial
issues on abortion, sexual rights and sex education for teen-agers. The
so-called Beijing-Plus-Five meeting, which began Monday, has been torn
by charges from more liberal groups that the Vatican and some Islamic countries
are trying to roll back gains for women articulated five years ago in China
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Index
* Guardian Council overturns result
* UN women forum wtruggles with abortion,
sex rights
* Momentum builds to free Abdollah Nouri
* Lawyer for jailed women activists quits
* US rabbis arrive in Tehran
* Leading reformist calls for respect for
rights
* Reformers aim for free press, expression
* Student leader arrested
* Lawyers for Iran Jews hand in final defence
papers
* 26,000 refugees return to Afghanistan
from Iran
* Rohani calls for legal satellite dishes
* Abdollah Nuri hospitalised with neck pain
* 2001 Agriculture Appropriations Bill!
* Iranian Jews 'unlikely to get harsh sentences'
* Justice rather than Jews seen on trial in Iran
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Thursday
June 8, 2000
Momentum builds to free Abdollah Nouri
TEHRAN, June 7 (Reuters) - Supporters of the jailed Iranian cleric Abdollah
Nouri said on Wednesday that hopes for his release were improving after
the head of the new parliament offered to help free him. Associates of
Nouri, who was taken from prison earlier this week to hospital for treatment
of a slipped disc, said that the parliamentary speaker Mehdi Karroubi had
agreed to seek the reformist cleric's freedom >>>
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Lawyer for jailed women activists quits
TEHRAN 6 June (IPS) -- Mrs. Shirin Ebadi, one of the most eminent Iranian
female lawyers announced that she was resigning to represent a colleague
and a publisher in protest to the "illegal" behaviour of the
Iranian Judiciary concerning political detainees. Speaking to reporters,
including the Persian and Pashtou Services of the BBC, Mrs. Ebadi revealed
that in the one month she has been representing Mrs. Mehranguiz Kar, a
secularits lawyer and Mrs. Shahla Lahiji, an independent Publisher, the
Judiciary has adamantly refused her to contact the prisoners and talk and
consult with them >>>
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Wednesday
June 7, 2000
US rabbis arrive in Tehran
In a statement received by telephone in the IranMania.com office in
London, Rabbi Chaim Lefkowitz secretary of 'Neturei Karta International'
based in New York, describing itself as an 'Anti-Zionist Jewish movement'
confirmed that four Rabbis from their ogranisation have made a trip to
Iran "To proclaim and distingtify the difference between Zionism and
Judaism" >>>
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Tuesday
June 6, 2000
Leading Majlis reformist calls for respect for human rights
TEHRAN, June 6 (AFP) - Leading Iranian reformist Mohammad-Reza Khatami
made a swingeing attack Tuesday on the abuse of human rights in Iran, including
arbitrary arrests, torture and censorship, and called on the new parliament
to defend personal freedoms. "Unfortunately, I have to say that the
rights of the people as laid down in the constitution are not respected,
" Khatami, brother of Iran's President Mohammad Khatami, said in his
maiden speech to the reformist-dominated parliament which took office on
May 27 >>>
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Reformers aim for free press, expression
TEHRAN, June 6 (Reuters) - Iran's biggest reformist faction, estimating
its strength in the new parliament at roughly half the 290 seats, has pledged
to push back the boundaries of free expression in the Islamic Republic.
Mohsen Mirdomadi, a prominent member of the Islamic Iran Participation
Front, was quoted on Tuesday as saying the group would take aim at a restrictive
press law passed in the waning days of the old, conservative-led parliament
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Student leader arrested
TEHRAN, June 6 (AFP) - Mahmud Shushtari, secretary of Tehran University's
Islamic Students Association, was arrested Tuesday by the university security
service and handed over to the intelligence ministry, the association said
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Lawyers for Iran Jews hand in final defence papers
TEHRAN, June 6 (Reuters) - Lawyers for most of the Iranian Jews on trial
in the southern city of Shiraz for alleged spying for Israel handed in
their final defence statement to the Revolutionary Court on Tuesday. Lead
defence lawyer Esmail Naseri, spokesman for a team of attorneys representing
nine of the 10 defendants who remain in custody, said the 26-page statement
claiming the innocence of their clients was lodged with Judge Sadegh Nourani >>>
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26,000 refugees return to Afghanistan from Iran
TEHRAN, June 6 (AFP) - About 26,000 Afghan refugees in Iran have returned
to Afghanistan since an agreement between Tehran and the UN High Commission
for Refugees (UNHCR) took effect in early April, the interior ministry
said Tuesday. The agreement signed February 14 allowed undocumented Afghan
refugees to request asylum within six months or request to return >>> FULL TEXT
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Rohani calls for legal satellite dishes
TEHRAN, June 5 (Reuters) - A prominent political cleric has urged Iran
to finally legalise satellite television, arguing that the Islamic Republic
is capable of defending its values from undue foreign influence. Hassan
Rowhani, secretary of the powerful Supreme National Security Council, said
Iran had to open itself up to the outside world and offer its citizens,
particularly young people, greater access to modern trends >>>
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Monday
June 5, 2000
* Abdollah Nuri hospitalised with neck pain
TEHRAN, June 5 (AFP) - Imprisoned Iranian reformist Abdollah Nuri has
been taken from Tehran's Evin prison to hospital after suffering "severe
pain" in the vertebrae of his neck, his brother Ali Reza Nuri told
AFP Monday. "He was hospitalised on Saturday and will stay there until
his pain hasgone," said Ali Reza, who himself is a reformist MP elected
in Tehran >>>
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* Do not strike the Nethercutt language or Iran from the FY 2001
Agriculture Appropriations Bill!
Iranians for International Cooperation -- Summary: Next week, Congress
will vote whether to lift sanctions on food and medicine on all nations
including Iran. Contact your representative and voice your support for
the lifting sanctions >>>
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