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October 30-November 3, 2000 / Aban 9-13, 1379
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November 3, 2000
Human Rights Watch condemns "Berlin" trial
November 2, 2000, New York (Human Rights Watch)-- In an open letter
sent to Iran's chief judicial official, Human Rights Watch called for an
end to the prosecution of prominent independent and reformist figures who
attended an international conference last April. Human Rights Watch sent
the open letter to the Head of Iran's judiciary, Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi
Shahroudi. At least twelve activists and writers now face charges of "engaging
in propaganda against the national security of Iran." >>>
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* Human Rights Watch condemns "Berlin"
trial
* Hardline court says lawyer pleads guilty:
paper
* Iran Security Service Arrests Alleged Agitato
* Guardian Council says press law "contradicts"
Islam
* Courts to make "anti-Islamic" political trial
public
* Sentences of Jews to be reviewed
* Parliament moves to close loophole in press crackdown
* Parliament targets censors
* Revolutionary court opens trial over Berlin seminar
* Parliament requires court approval for underage marriage
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Thursday
November 2, 2000
Hardline court says women's rights lawyer pleads guilty: paper
TEHRAN, Nov 2 (AFP) - An Iranian revolutionary court said the nation's
best-known women's rights lawyer has pleaded guilty in a trial over a controversial
"anti-Islamic" political seminar, newspapers said Thursday. A
court prosecutor, cited in the conservative Kayhan daily, said Mehrangiz
Kar and another woman, Shahla Lahiji, had both accepted the charges in
court and asked for "forgiveness." >>>
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Iran Security Service Arrests Alleged Agitator
TEHRAN, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Iran's intelligence ministry has arrested
a man for allegedly stirring unrest on the eve of planned pro-democracy
student demonstrations, the official IRNA news agency reported on Wednesday
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Wednesday
November 1, 2000
Guardian Council says softer press law "contradicts" Islam
TEHRAN, Nov 1 (AFP) - A conservative-led Iranian oversight body has
overruled the pro-reform parliament's bid to close a legal loophole used
to shutter much of the nation's press, reports said Wednesday. The powerful
Council of Guardians rebuffed a parliamentary motion allowing papers to
change from weekly to daily or regional to national publication without
prior approval as "contradicting Islamic law >>>
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Courts to make "anti-Islamic" political trial public
TEHRAN, Nov 1 (AFP) - Iran's judiciary has decided to make public the
trial of several leading reformists who attended a controversial "anti-Islamic"
political conference, press reports said Wednesday. The decision to open
the doors of the trial, which includes several close allies of President
Mohammad Khatami, came following "multiple demands," newspapers
reported. No further details were given >>>
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Tuesday
October 31, 2000
Sentences of Jews to be reviewed
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's prosecutor general will review the sentences
of 10 Iranian Jews convicted of cooperating with Israel, and his decision
on the spy case will be final, a judiciary official said Tuesday. ``If
the prosecutor general decides that the final sentences passed by the courts
are contrary to the law, he would demand reconsideration,'' said Hossein
Ali Amiri, the judiciary chief of the southern Fars province, where the
Jews were tried >>>
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Parliament moves to close loophole that helped press crackdown
TEHRAN, Oct 31 (AFP) - The Iranian parliament made a bid Tuesday to
block further press closures by passing a motion to wipe out a legal loophole
used by the conservative courts to shutter a number of papers. The reform-majority
chamber overwhelmingly passed a motion allowing newspaper directors to
change from weekly to daily publication without being subjected to a new
police investigation >>>
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Monday
October 30, 2000
Parliament targets censors
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's reformist-dominated parliament moved Sunday
to halt a press crackdown by the country's hard-line judiciary, which has
ordered more than 30 newspapers to shut in the past six months. The 290-seat
Majlis drafted a bill that would bar the judiciary from closing newspapers
on grounds that they lack its authorization to operate. Newspaper licenses
are issued by the Press Supervisory Board, but the judiciary says publishers
need its permission as well >>>
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Revolutionary court opens trial over "anti-Islamic" Berlin
seminar
TEHRAN, Oct 29 (AFP) - A revolutionary court on Sunday opened the closed-door
trial of several allies of President Mohammad Khatami who attended a controversial
so called "anti-Islamic" conference on reforms in Iran. Only
two of the defendants were in court Sunday after the tribunal announced
it would try the defendants "in groups," a judicial official
said, cited by state television. It did not name the pair >>>
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Parliament requires court approval for underage marriage
TEHRAN, Oct 29 (AFP) - Iran's reform-majority parliament on Sunday passed
a bill that would require court approval for boys under 18 or girls under
15 to get married, state television reported. Several clerics in the conservative
minority argued against the measure, saying that Islamic sharia law, which
sets the minimum marriage age at 14 for boys and nine for girls, should
apply >>>
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