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* Iran sends expelled Egyptian Islamists
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* Newspaper calls for legalization of satellite TV dishes
* Belgian judge orders police probe of charges against Rafsanjani
* Jews' trial expected to last one day: judge
* Police chief in Jews spy case killed in helicopter crash
* Three opposition figures jailed - human rights group
* Student on death row claims he was tortured
* Guardian Council says "irregularities and errors"
alleged in Tehran vote
* Jews' trial to start April 13: radio
* Teenagers sentenced to lashing after "depraved"
dance night
* Iran students narrate beatings
* Police go on trial over unrest violence
* 500 workers demonstrate outside parliament over new
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* Newcomers keen for reform to pack new Iranian parliament
* U.S. State Department human report on Iran
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Friday
March 3, 2000
* Tehran police chief denies intensifying crackdown
TEHRAN, March 2 (Reuters) - Tehran's police chief denied on Thursday
that "morals squads" have begun a new crackdown against young
people and satellite television dishes, saying police were simply on increased
alert for thieves and criminals. "Our increased presence is, in principle,
to deal with thieves and common criminals... Concerning social vices, no
new measures have been taken, we are just continuing the old trend,"
Brigadier General Mohsen Ansari told Reuters. >>>
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Thursday
March 2, 2000
* Iran sends expelled Egyptian Islamists back to Germany
CAIRO, March 1 (AFP) - Iran refused entry to two Egyptian Islamists
expelled there from Germany and has sent them back, the lawyer for Egypt's
largest Muslim militant group, the Gamaa Islamiya, said Wednesday. The
German authorities "put the two militants and their families aboard
a plane bound for Tehran, telling them that Iran was going to grant them
political asylum," Montasser al-Zayyat told AFP. >>>
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* Newspaper calls for legalization of satellite TV dishes
TEHRAN, March 2 (AFP) - An Iranian newspaper called Thursday for the
newly elected pro-reform parliament to reverse the ban on satellite television
dishes so the country can join the 21st century. "The whole argument
boils down to this fact that today satellite reception is not a luxury
reserved for a handful of privileged individuals, but a prodigious necessity,"
the government-sponsored Iran News said in an editorial.>>>
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* Belgian judge orders police probe of charges against Rafsanjani
BRUSSELS, March 2 (AFP) - A Belgian judge has ordered police to investigate
allegations that former Iranian president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
is guilty of crimes against humanity, officials said Thursday.>>> FULL TEXT
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* Jews' trial expected to last one day: judge
TEHRAN, March 2 (AFP) - The Iranian judge handling the case of 13 Jews
and eight Muslims accused of spying for Israel and the United States hopes
to wrap the whole trial up in one day, a newspaper quoted him as saying
Thursday. "I hope the trial will only last a day, but if necessary
it will go into several sessions," the judge, named only as Nurai,
told the evening daily Ettelaat >>>
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* Police chief in Jews spy case killed in helicopter crash
TEHRAN, March 2 (AFP) - The police chief of the southern Iranian city
of Shiraz, who ordered the arrest of 13 Jews and eight Muslims facing trial
on charges of spying for Israel and the United States, was killed in a
helicopter crash Wednesday, press reports said Thursday >>>
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* Three opposition figures jailed - human rights group
PARIS, March 2 (AFP) - Three leaders of one of the main secular opposition
groups in Iran, the Iranian nation party, have been sentenced to long prison
terms, the League for the Defense of Human Rights in Iran (LDDHI) said
Thursday.>>>
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Wednesday
March 1, 2000
* Student on death row claims he was tortured
TEHRAN, March 1 (AFP) - An Iranian student facing execution for his
part in the violent unrest of last July claimed Wednesday he had been tortured
and ill-treated in prison since his arrest. "I was hit with an electric
cable, hung up by a rope and violently beaten," Akbar Mohammadi said
in a letter to judiciary chief Mahmud Hashemi-Shahrudi published in a number
of reformist newspapers >>>
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* Guardian Council says "irregularities and errors" alleged
in Tehran vote
TEHRAN, March 1 (AFP) - Iran's powerful Council of Guardians said Wednesday
complaints of "irregularities and errors" in the February 18
parliamentary vote in the Tehran constituency had prompted the need for
a recount, state radio reported. "We have received many complaints
of irregularities and errors which necessitate a new recount for at least
one third of the ballot boxes in the capital," the radio quoted the
council as saying >>>
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* Jews' trial to start April 13: radio
TEHRAN, March 1 (AFP) - Thirteen Iranian Jews and eight Muslims accused
of spying for Israel and the United States will go on trial in the southern
city of Shiraz on April 13, state radio quoted a judiciary spokesman as
saying Wednesday >>>
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* Teenagers sentenced to lashing after "depraved" dance
night
TEHRAN, March 1 (AFP) - Forty two young men and women arrested at a
"depraved dance night" were each sentenced to 35 lashes by an
Iranian court, the evening paper Kayhan reported Wednesday. Police broke
up the dance event, at the town of Shiraz in southern Iran, and jailed
the organiser, the paper reported >>>
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Tuesday
February 29, 2000
* Iran students narrate beatings
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - An ex-police chief accused of ordering a brutal
crackdown on university students went on trial Tuesday in a landmark civil
rights case in Iran, where reformists are urging respect for laws often
flouted by hard-line vigilantes. One student testified he was beaten by
police and vigilantes and thrown out a third-floor dormitory window. Another
showed the judge his hollow eye socket, saying he had been hit by a tear
gas canister >>>
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* Police go on trial over unrest violence
TEHRAN, Feb 29 (AFP) - Twenty Iranian policemen went on trial before
a military court here Tuesday for their actions in quelling a student demonstration
last July which sparked off the worst unrest in Iran in some 20 years.
The court, presided over by a senior cleric, Hojatoleslam Akbar Tabatabai,
formally charged the group of 12 officers and eight men, including former
Tehran police chief Farhad Nazari, with assaulting the students in a dormitory
complex at Tehran university >>>
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Monday
February 28, 2000
* 500 workers demonstrate outside parliament over new law
TEHRAN, Feb 28 (AFP) - Some 500 Iranian workers rallied outside the
parliament Monday to protest at a new law passed at the weekend enabling
employers with fewer than five staff to strip them of social security.
Reformists meanwhile slammed the legislation as a gesture of spite by the
outgoing conservative-dominated parliament following the landslide victory
of the reformists in this month's election >>>
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* Newcomers keen for reform to pack new Iranian parliament
TEHRAN, Feb 27 (AFP) - Political novices avid for change in Iranian
society will comprise the majority of members in Iran's new parliament,
with fewer women and fewer clerics but solidly behind President Mohammad
Khatami. "It will be a dream parliament" for Khatami, said political
analyst Darysh Abdali following Saturday's declaration of the final results
of the first round of voting on February 18 which decided 226 of the 290
seats in the new parliament >>>
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