Human Rights
June 12-16, 2000 / Khordad 23-27, 1379
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Friday
June 16, 2000
Guardian Council throws out two elections
TEHRAN, June 16 (AFP) - Iran's election watchdog group has thrown out
the second-round elections of two reformists, bringing to 11 the number
of seats for which a new round of voting will need to be held, Iran's official
IRNA news agency said Friday >>>
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Index
* Guardian Council throws out two elections
* Student leader summoned
* Amnesty International: Annual Report
2000
* Jews spy trial proceedings end
* Authorities search reformists' homes:
report
* Call for release of Berlin detainees
* Iranian Jews recant on their "confessions":
defense
* Jews' trial nears end
* New pro-reform daily begins publication
in Iran
* Reformists seek press freedoms
* Students protest majlis win annulment
* Directors of banned dailies to appear
in court
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Thursday
June 15, 2000
Student leader summoned
June 15, 2000 (The Public Relations of the Islamic Association of University
Students and Alumni) -- Mr. Heshmatollah Tabarzadi is summoned to court!
Mr. Hesmatollah Tabarzadi, the Secretary General of the Islamic Association
of University Students and Alumni [of Iran], has been charged and summoned
to court at 10 a.m. on Saturday, June 19, 2000, by the 26th branch of the
revolutionary court >>>
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Wednesday
June 14, 2000
Amnesty International: Annual Report 2000 on Iran
Issues relating to freedom of expression dominated the year. Journalists
began to address in print the political, economic and social problems facing
Iran and broached issues that had previously been taboo. As the year progressed,
a pattern of intimidation, harassment and administrative detention emerged
as a mechanism for silencing a range of opinion >>>
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Jews spy trial proceedings end
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Courtroom proceedings in the trial of 13 Iranian
Jews accused of spying for Israel have ended and the defense has completed
its work, a senior judicial official said Wednesday. ``There will be no
more court hearings,'' Hossein Ali Amiri, the judiciary chief of Fars province,
where the Jews are being tried, said on Iranian radio >>>
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Authorities search reformists' homes: report
TEHRAN, June 14 (AFP) - The homes of three reformist journalists, including
the imprisoned Akbar Ganji, were searched under orders of a revolutionary
tribunal, the pro-reform newspaper Bayan said Wednesday >>>
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Call for release of Berlin detainees
Tehran (Bahar) -- About a hundred academics in the Middle East, Europe
and the U.S., including Noam Chomsky, have a written a letter to Judiciary
chief Shahroudi calling for the release of those who were detained because
of their participation in the Berlin conference
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Tuesday
June 13, 2000
Iranian Jews recant on their "confessions": defense
SHIRAZ, Iran, June 13 (AFP) - Several of the 13 Iranian Jews accused
of spying for Israel recanted Tuesday on their public confessions during
their trial in the southern city of Shiraz, saying they had been extracted
under duress, a defense lawyer said. "Some defendants have said the
confessions were made at the demand of (government) agents," said
defense spokesman Ismail Nasseri on leaving the court after the latest
session of the trial. "Some of them do not remember the events."
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Jews' trial nears end
SHIRAZ, Iran (AP) - A judge introduced new evidence Tuesday as the trial
of 13 Iranian Jews accused of spying for Israel drew to a close, lawyers
said. Defense attorney Karim Sadeghi said his team had seen the fresh evidence,
which couldn't be disclosed for security reasons. ``What I can say is that
it was wholly unconvincing, and we found little that was new in it,'' he
said >>>
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Monday
June 12, 2000
New pro-reform daily begins publication in Iran
TEHRAN, June 11 (AFP) - A new pro-reform newspaper run by the brother
of Iran's supreme spiritual guide Ali Khameini hit Tehran newsstands Sunday,
more than a month after most reformist publications were shut down by the
government >>>
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Reformists seek press freedoms
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - In a bid to fulfill the promises that helped them
win parliamentary elections, more than 100 reformist lawmakers have drafted
a bill calling for lifting restrictions on media imposed by their predecessors,
a lawmaker said Monday. ``Press freedom is the first priority of the new
Majlis (parliament),'' Rajabali Mazrouie, a journalist and leading reformist
lawmaker, told The Associated Press >>>
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Students protest majlis win annulment
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Dozens of Iranian students from the central city
of Arak demonstrated in front of Parliament here Sunday to protest the
annulment of a reformist candidate's win in run-off legislative elections,
the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported
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Directors of banned dailies to appear in court
TEHRAN, 12 June (AFP) - Directors of several banned reformist dailies,
including the brother of the Iranian president, Mohammad-Reza Khatami,
will appear before the press court "in two weeks," the Head of
Iran's Judiciary Abbassali Alizadeh announced Monday >>>
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