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Thursday
November 9, 2000
Akbar Ganji says he was tortured in prison
TEHRAN, Nov 9 (AFP) - Prominent pro-reform Iranian journalist Akbar
Ganji told reporters Thursday he had been tortured in prison when he arrived
at Tehran's revolutionary court for trial in connection with an "anti-Islamic"
political conference in Berlin earlier this year. The outspoken journalist
and ally of reformist President Mohammad Khatami was hauled into court
by prison guards, where he told reporters that he had been "beaten
and tortured by four people" while in prison >>>
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Prosecutor demands death penalty in Berlin seminar trial
TEHRAN, Nov 9 (AFP) - The prosecution in Tehran's revolutionary court
asked Thursday for a death sentence against a former communist, Khalil
Rostam-Khani, 47, who is alleged to have organised an "anti-Islamic"
conference in Berlin in April. Prosecutor Abdollah Sharifi said Rostam-Khani
should be sentenced under article 186 of Iran's penal code which prescribes
the death penalty for "waging war on God." >>>
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* Akbar Ganji says he was tortured in
prison
* Prosecutor demands death penalty in Berlin seminar trial
* Judiciary denies German citizen arrested in Iran
* Reformist decries hard-liners
* Top woman politician faces court
* Iranian ambassador summoned
* Deputy interior minister in court
* Thief has four fingers amputated
* Students demonstrate for freedom of jailed intellectuals
* Parliament upholds press bill and sets showdown with conservatives
* Iran indicts five abroad, including German, over conference:
IRNA
* Iran holds open session of trial over Berlin conference
* Ezzatollah Sahabi is threatened by hardliners
* Jailed journalist threatens hunger strike over prison safety
* Human Rights Watch condemns "Berlin" trial
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Wednesday
November 8, 2000
Judiciary denies German citizen arrested in Iran
TEHRAN, Nov 8 (AFP) - The Iranian judiciary denied Tuesday that a German
citizen had been arrested for plotting against the Iranian government in
a case being pursued by a revolutionary court here, the radio announced.
Iran's state IRNA news agency reported Monday that five people residing
abroad, including a German national, had been indicted in the case and
would be tried in absentia >>>
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Reformist decries hard-liners
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A leading Iranian lawmaker on Tuesday urged President
Mohammad Khatami to condemn the tactics of his hard-line opponents in closing
liberal newspapers and trying to roll back democratic reforms. ``I call
on the president not to remain silent,'' Behzad Nabavi, a reformist who
is deputy speaker of parliament, or Majlis, told lawmakers >>>
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Tuesday
November 7, 2000
Top woman politician faces court
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's most popular woman politician went on trial
in a Revolutionary Court on Tuesday, a day after the prosecutor said he
was seeking a possible death penalty for a co-defendant. Jamileh Kadivar,
the No. 2 vote-getter in this year's parliamentary elections, faces charges
of violating state security and insulting Islam for her part in a conference
in Berlin in April on the future of Iran's reform movement >>>
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Iranian ambassador summoned as anger grows over German's indictment
BERLIN, Nov 7 (AFP) - The German foreign ministry summoned Iran's ambassador
to Berlin Monday to send "a clear signal" over a German citizen's
indictment in Tehran for allegedly plotting against the Iran's regime,
officials said. Thomas Hartmann was charged along with four others earlier
Monday with "waging blatant propaganda against the Islamic republic"
as well as cooperating with the outlawed opposition People's Mujahedeen,
the official Iranian news agency IRNA said, citing a reliable judicial
source .>>>
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Deputy interior minister in court over deadly unrest
TEHRAN, Nov 7 (AFP) - Iran's deputy interior minister was in court Tuesday
for questioning over the deadly unrest that marred a pro-reform student
conference in August, the state IRNA news agency said
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Thief has four fingers amputated by guillotine in public
TEHRAN, Nov 7 (AFP) - An Iranian man repeatedly caught thieving had
four fingers of his right hand cut off in public with a guillotine as punishment,
a newspaper reported Tuesday >>>
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Monday
November 6, 2000
Students demonstrate for freedom of jailed intellectuals
TEHRAN, Oct 6 (AFP) - About 500 students rallied Monday at Tehran University
to call for democracy and the release of intellectuals and journalists
jailed by the Judiciary. "Free political prisoners!" and "Reform
the judiciary!" chanted the students, who were organized by the Office
to Consolidate Unity (OCU), a pro-reform student movement that ardently
supports President Mohammad Khatami >>>
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Parliament upholds press bill and sets showdown with conservatives
TEHRAN, Nov 5 (AFP) - The reform-majority parliament on Sunday upheld
a bill it passed last week to ease curbs on the press which had been overruled
by a powerful conservative oversight body, state radio reported. The move
sets up a showdown with the conservative-led Guardians Council, which said
the measure -- allowing papers to change from weekly to daily or regional
to national publication without prior approval from police -- contradicted
Islamic law >>>
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Iran indicts five abroad, including German, over conference: IRNA
TEHRAN, Nov 6 (AFP) - Iran's judiciary has indicted five people residing
abroad, including a German national, for acting against national security
at a controversial political conference, the state IRNA news agency said
Monday. The five have been charged with "waging blatant propaganda
against the Islamic republic" as well as cooperating with the outlawed
opposition People's Mujahedeen, IRNA said, citing a "reliable"
judicial source >>>
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Iran holds open session of trial over Berlin conference
TEHRAN, Nov 5 (AFP) - Iranian intellectuals, journalists and students
appeared in a Tehran revolutionary court Sunday, on trial for taking part
in a controversial "anti-Islamic" political conference in Berlin.
Newspaper publisher Shahla Sherkat, journalist Hamid-Reza Jalaipour, writer
Khadijeh Haj Dini-Moghadam and others, including a translator for the German
embassy, apeared at the open session >>>
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Ezzatollah Sahabi is threatened by hardliners
TEHRAN, Nov 5 (AFP) - Dissident opposition leader Ezzatollah Sahabi
was blocked from attending a political rally last week by gangs of hardliners,
he said in an open letter Sunday. "I was threatened by fundamentalist
groups in the city of Andimeshk where I had been invited to lecture on
the nation's political situation," he said in the letter, a copy of
which was obtained by AFP >>>
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Jailed journalist threatens hunger strike over prison safety
TEHRAN, Nov 6 (AFP) - Jailed pro-reform Iranian journalist Ahmad Zeid-Abadi
has threatened a hunger strike to protest security after he said his cell-mate
was stabbed in his sleep, his wife announced Monday. In a fax sent to AFP,
she said her husband -- who has been in prison since August -- had complained
of little response from prison authorities and that telephone lines for
prisoners had been cut after inmate protests >>>
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Friday
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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