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Wednesday
November 22, 2000
Trial for serial killers of dissidents to begin next month
TEHRAN, Nov 22 (AFP) - The much-anticipated trial of the suspects inthe
shock 1998 serial murders of several Iranian dissidents and intellectualswill
open in military court next month, state radio said Wednesday. The announcement
of the December 23 trial date comes a day after violentclashes between
police and protesters in Tehran following a memorialservice for two of
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Students warn of political tensions
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian students have warned of potential tension
if campussecurity personnel at a Tehran polytechnic continue harassing
women students,the Iran Students News Agency (ISNA) said on Wednesday.
A petition was sent to the minister of higher education by students at
the Amir Kabir University of Technologycondemning searches of women students'
bags at campus entrances >>>
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* Trial for serial killers of dissidents
to begin next month
* Students warn of political tensions
* Police clash with youth after memorial service
* Akbar Ganji calls off hunger strike: IRNA
* Judiciary drops charges against deputy minister
* Nabavi released on bail
* Student leader: court political
* Top reformist summoned
* Young hardliners attack meeting
* Woman of "loose morals" burned
* Defendant facing death penalty is freed on bail
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Tuesday
November 21, 2000
Police clash with youth after memorial service
TEHRAN, Nov 21 (AFP) - Police clashed with young people exiting a ceremony
in Tehran on Tuesday marking the second anniversary of the assassination
of a nationalist political leader and his wife, an AFP reporter said >>> FULL
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Akbar Ganji calls off hunger strike: IRNA
TEHRAN, Nov 21 (AFP) - An outspoken pro-reform Iranian journalist who
said he has been tortured in prison called off his hunger strike Tuesday,
the official IRNA news agency said. It said Akbar Ganji, jailed over articles
linking former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani to the 1998 murders of
several dissidents, had agreed to end the strike but was still demanding
his rights as a prisoner >>>
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Judiciary drops charges against deputy minister over August riots
Deputy Interior Minister Mostafa Tajzadeh had been due in court Tuesday
morning to face questioning over the unrest which marred a pro-reform student
conference, leaving one person dead and dozens wounded. But the hearing
was called off and the sources told AFP that the charges against the reformist
Tajzadeh, a regular target of conservative attacks, had been dropped >>> FULL
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Monday
November 20, 2000
Nabavi released on bail
November 19, Teheran (dpa) - Popular Iranian satirist Ebrahim Nabavi
has been released on bail after four months in prison, the Teheran daily
Iran reported Sunday >>>
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Iran student leader says court politically motivated
TEHRAN, Nov 19 (Reuters) - The political leader of Iran's largest student
movement on Sunday denied in court he had acted against state security
and said charges against him were politicaly motivated >>>
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Top reformist summoned
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's hard-line judiciary has summoned a key ally
of reformist President Mohammad Khatami to court for his alleged role in
riots in August, a newspaper reported Monday >>>
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Young hardliners attack political meeting with knives and axes
TEHRAN, Nov 18 (AFP) - Young hardliners armed with knives and axes attacked
a public political meeting where two pro-reform MPs were speaking, the
governmental Iran daily said Saturday >>>
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Woman of "loose morals" burned to death by dad and brother:
paper
TEHRAN, Nov 18 (AFP) - A young woman suspected of "loose morals"
was beaten and then burned alive by her father and brother, press reports
said Saturday >>>
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Friday
November 17, 2000
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Thursday
November 16, 2000
Defendant facing death penalty is freed on bail
TEHRAN, Nov 16 (AFP) - A former Iranian communist facing a possible
death sentence for his role in a controversial political seminar in Germany
has been released on bail, a court official told AFP on Thursday. Khalil
Rostam-Khani, who attended the April conference in Berlin which Iranian
authorities deemed anti-Islamic, paid 87,000 dollars' bail to be released,
the official said. His family confirmed the release >>>
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