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Friday
June 30, 2000
Iran Jews pray for accused spies
SHIRAZ, Iran (AP) - Iranian Jews converged Friday on a synagogue in
the heart of this ancient city's Jewish quarter, offering prayers on the
eve of a verdict for 13 Jews accused of spying for Israel. ``I'm going
to pray sincerely for tomorrow, and whatever happens I accept that it is
God's will,'' said Daniel Bent-Yacoub, the 14-year-old son of Javid Bent-Yacoub.
Defense attorneys have said Daniel's father, a 42-year-old shop owner,
testified to collecting military information for Israel but insisted his
actions weren't espionage >>>
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24 Iranian illegal immigrants found in eastern Croatia
ZAGREB, June 30 (AFP) - Police discovered a group of 24 Iranian illegal
immigrants hidden in the back of a truck, near the eastern town of Slavonski
Brod, HINA news agency reported. Nineteen adults and five children were
hidden in the truck driven by a Croatian citizen, stopped by the police
at the Zagreb-Lipovac highway toll booths >>>
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* Iran Jews pray for accused
spies
* 24 Iranian illegal immigrants
found in eastern Croatia
* British MPs want Iran ties on hold over
human rights
* Court starts open trial of suspended
papers
* Judiciary asks for permanent closing
of reformist weekly
* Church leaders urge justice for Iranian
jews
* Rahami, Ebadi receive arrest warrants
* Riot squad moves in to break up demonstration
* Pressure for free press
* Judicial chief rejects calls to end newspaper closings
* Shiraz court chief insists Jews don't face death penalty
* Jailing of Iranian woman in Virginia protested
* Court orders Sahabi jailed
* Iran weighs sentence in spy trial
* 19th newspaper banned
* 110,000 sign petition to free journalists
* Student leader released on bail
* Influential cleric opposes UN document on women
* Woman gets death penalty for killing ex-husband
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Thursday
June 29, 2000
British MPs want Iran ties on hold over human rights
LONDON, June 28 (Reuters) - A majority of British members of parliament
have called for London's rapprochement with Tehran to be put on hold until
Iran improves its human rights record, campaigners said on Wednesday. Speaking
just days before a landmark visit to Tehran by Foreign Secretary Robin
Cook, they said 335 parliamentarians had signed a statement calling for
political and trade relations to be conditional on Iran 's full respect
for human rights >>>
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Wednesday
June 28, 2000
Court starts open trial of suspended papers
TEHRAN (June 28) XINHUA - Iran on Wednesday started the first open trial
of the papers and journals suspended in recent months for disparaging Islam
and religious elements of the Islamic revolution. The first trial started
at Branch 1410 of Tehran's Public Court, scheduled to hear the case against
Mostafa Izadi, managing director of the suspended weekly "Ava"
(Voice), the Islamic Republic News Agency reported >>>
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Judiciary asks for permanent closing of reformist weekly
TEHRAN, June 28 (AFP) - An Iranian court asked Wednesday for the permanent
closing of the pro-reform weekly Ava, which was suspended in a recent government
crackdown on 13 daily newspapers and five other periodicals, the official
IRNA news agency reported. "Ava's director and journalists must be
punished and its authorization to publish must be permanently annulled,"
the press court prosecutor, Ali Asghar Tashakori, said in the first hearing
of a string of cases against the suspended publications >>>
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Church leaders urge justice for Iranian jews
LONDON, June 27 (Reuters) - Christian and Jewish church leaders in Britain
urged Iran on Tuesday to ensure that 13 Jews charged with spying for Israel
receive ``just and transparent'' treatment by the court. The verdict on
the Iranian Jews is expected to be delivered next Saturday, according to
the head of the judiciary in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz >>> FULL TEXT
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Tuesday
June 27, 2000
Rahami, Ebadi receive arrest warrants
Tehran, June 28, IRNA -- Tehran's Public Court here on Wednesday afternoon
issued arrest warrant for two reformist lawyers Mohsen Rahami and Shirin
Ebadi. Rahami was the defense lawyer of the students in the case of last
July Tehran University dormitory incident and former interior minister
Abdullah Nouri and Shirin Ebadi is a lawyer >>>
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Riot squad moves in to break up demonstration
TEHRAN, June 27 (AFP) - Some 3000 women burned tires and blocked a main
road southwest of Tehran Tuesday in protest at poor living conditions >>> FULL
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Pressure for free press
TEHRAN, Iran Iran's supreme leader urged the conservative
judiciary Tuesday not to yield to reformist pressure for greater press
freedom. In a statement broadcast on state radio, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
told judges that they had to punish criminals irrespective of their political
affiliations >>>
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Judicial chief rejects calls to end newspaper closings
TEHRAN, June 28 (AFP) - Iranian judicial chief Ayatollah Mahmud Hashemi-Shahrudi
has rejected calls from parliament to stop shutting down newspapers, a
response reformers say is "unacceptable." Shahrudi, in a letter
read to parliament Tuesday, said the judiciary's decision to close down
more than a dozen newspapers was "independent and made without bias."
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Shiraz court chief insists Jews don't face death penalty
TEHRAN, June 26 (AFP) - The head of the Shiraz judiciary insisted Monday
that 13 Jews awaiting judgement there for alleged spying for Israel did
not face the death penalty. "The defendants are only accused of acts
against national security and the charge of 'mohareb' (waging war against
God) has been dropped, hence they would not face capital punishment,"
the official IRNA news agency quoted Hossein-Ali Amiri as saying >>> FULL TEXT
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Jailing of Iranian woman in Virginia protested
WASHINGTON (AP) - A bipartisan group of House members is protesting
detention of an Iranian woman jailed in Virginia two months after she was
deported from Canada as a former commander of an alleged terrorist group.
Mahnaz Samadi, who gained political asylum in the United States five years
ago after she was imprisoned and tortured in Iran, is being held by the
Immigration and Naturalization Service in a jail in Hopewell, Va. She is
accused in immigration documents of preparing rebel units under her command
for ``coordinated attacks designed to liberate Iran.'' >>>
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Monday
June 26, 2000
Court orders Sahabi jailed
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A hard-line Iranian court ordered a leading dissident
imprisoned Monday, continuing its crackdown on journalists and reformists
demanding greater freedoms. Ezatollah Sahabi, the editor of a magazine
among 19 pro-democracy publications banned since April, was reportedly
detained in connection with a conference he attended in Germany >>>
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Iran weighs sentence in spy trial
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A local prosecutor said Monday the death penalty
could not be handed down against 13 Iranian Jews accused of spying for
Israel, though the hard-line cleric who is the nation's top prosecutor
has said the accused face hanging. Iran's official Islamic Republic News
Agency quoted local prosecutor Hossein Ali Amiri as saying Monday that
if the charge of moharebeh, or fighting against God and the state, ``is
not brought, there is no question of a death sentence.'' >>>
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19th newspaper banned
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's hard-line judiciary closed another reformist
newspaper Sunday and defended its media crackdown as a way of upholding
the country's Islamic principles. Bayan became the 19th newspaper ordered
to shut down in the past two months. Its closure coincided with a Tehran
Justice Ministry statement responding to a letter from 151 lawmakers that
had urged an end to such measures, saying they had tarnished Iran's reputation
at home and abroad >>>
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110,000 sign petition to free journalists
TEHRAN, June 26 (AFP) - A petition signed by 110,00 people, mostly students,
calling for the release of jailed journalists has been presented to the
Iranian judiciary, an Islamic student association in Tehran told AFP Monday.
The petition was submitted late Sunday to the head of the country's court
system, Ayatollah Mahmud Hashemi Shahrudi, according to a representative
of the association of Tehran University's faculty of literature and humanities
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Student leader released on bail
TEHRAN, June 25 (AFP) - A pro-reform Iranian student leader who has
been imprisoned for nearly two months was set free Sunday on 62,000 dollars
bail, state authorities said. Ali Afshari, a leader of the Office for Consolidation
and Unity student group, was detained April 30 for attending an academic
conference in Berlin that Iranian authorities judged "anti-Islamic.">>> FULL
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Influential cleric opposes UN document on women
TEHRAN, June 24 (AFP) - An influential Shiite cleric has denounced Iran's
ratification of a UN document that encourages more education for girls
and condemns violence against women. "I say it very clearly that it
is religiously forbidden to adhere to these documents," Ayatollah
Nasser Makarem-Shirazi told the Saturday edition of Yalessarat, a conservative
weekly >>>
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Woman gets death penalty for killing ex-husband
TEHRAN, June 24 (AFP) - Iran's Supreme Court Saturday upheld a lower
court's execution order for a women convicted of murdering her ex-husband
after he beat the couple's children, the Tehran press reported. Soussan
Hajirian, 42 years old, was found guilty of the 1996 murder of her ex-husband,
with a solid cooking dish following a violent altercation >>>
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