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Friday
December 1, 2000
Democrats honor student movemeent
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL - The World Movement for Democracy, a global
network of democratic activists who are meeting this week in São
Paulo, honored five groups who have shown exceptional courage in their
work for freedom and democracy at an evening program held yesterday at
the American Chamber of Commerce, São Paulo. Iran's Pro-democracy
Student Movement has spearheaded the Iranian people's struggle for basic
freedoms, including the rights of free assembly and freedom of expression
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* Democrats honor student movemeent
* Akbar Ganji on trial names names in serial murders case
* Ganji tries to turn tables on Iranian justice system
* Iran arrests distributors of report on dissident killings
* Ganji acuses officials
* Sazgara's letter to Khamenei
* Press court bans leading youth magazine
* Press board approves 17 new publications
* Parliament asked to recognize Armenian 'genocide'
* Kurdish MP accuses Iran's regime of repression, murders
* 2,000 students rally in Tehran for Khatami's reforms
* Reformists call for open trial of suspected assassins
* 18 to be tried for serial murders
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Thursday
November 30, 2000
Akbar Ganji on trial names names in serial murders case
TEHRAN, Nov 30 (AFP) - A reformist journalist on trial in Tehran Thursday
accused a senior judge of ordering the murder of a communist militant and
a group of conservative clerics of being behind other killings of dissidents
and intellectuals. Akbar Ganji named names at his trial before a revolutionary
court over his participation with other reformists at a conference in Berlin
in April which was deemed un-Islamic by conservative Iranian authorities
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Ganji tries to turn tables on Iranian justice system
TEHRAN, Nov 30 (AFP) - The trial of a key figure in a controversial
conference deemed "anti-Islamic" edged towards farce Thursday
as he blamed Iran's authorities for letting him attend, charging them with
double standards. Journalist Akbar Ganji was appearing before Tehran's
revolutionary court for the second time in the trial over the conference
on Iran held in Berlin in early April, for which 17 others are also facing
prosecution >>>
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Iran arrests distributors of report on dissident killings
TEHRAN, Nov 30 (AFP) - Iran has arrested several people charged with
distributing an 80-page report which implicates a number of authorities
in the shock 1998 serial murders of several dissidents and intellectuals,
press reports said Thursday. The centrist Entekhab paper cited Intelligence
Minister Ali Yunessi as saying that several people, accused of distributing
the undercover "night letter", had been identifed and arrested
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Ganji Accuses Official
November 30, 2000 TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- In a daring allegation, Iran's
leading investigative journalist on Thursday accused former Intelligence
Minister Ali Fallahian of ordering the killing of political dissidents
two years ago. In court, Ganji also openly challenged Iran's supreme leader,
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Wednesday
November 29, 2000
Press court bans leading youth magazine
TEHRAN, Nov 29 (AFP) - Iran's conservative-run press court on Tuesday
banned the nation's largest-circulation youth magazine, Iran-e Javan, its
director Behrouz Behzadi told AFP. "This magazine was like my own
child," Behzadi said after the Tehran court closed the popular weekly,
whose circulation of 100,000 he said made it the top-selling magazine in
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Press board approves 17 new publications
TEHRAN, Nov 28 (AFP) - Iran's culture ministry, a target of conservative
anger over its handling of the press, has given the green light to more
than a dozen new publications, the official IRNA news agency said Tuesday.
It said the ministry's press supervisory board on Monday approved 17 new
publications on various topics, including economics, politics, psychology
and science. None of the permits were for daily newspapers >>>
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Parliament asked to recognize Armenian 'genocide'
TEHRAN, Nov 29 (AFP) - Armenian members of the Iranian parliament are
to ask the assembly to recognise Turkey's 1915-17 "genocide"
of Armenians, the centrist daily Entekhab reported Wednesday. The two representatives
of Iran's more than 200,000 citizens of Armenian origin want the Iranian
parliament to follow similar moves elsewhere, notably in the European parliament
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Tuesday
November 28, 2000
Kurdish MP accuses Iran's regime of repression, murders
TEHRAN, Nov 28 (AFP) - A Kurdish Iranian MP launched an unprecedented
attack on the floor of parliament Tuesday, accusing the regime of murder
and religious repression of the nation's minority Sunni Muslim Kurds. Jalal
Jalalizadeh, who represents the Kurdistan provincial capital of Sanandaj,
denounced what he called a "campaign of repression, serial murders,
and the banning of the faith" of the Sunni Kurds >>>
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Monday
November 27, 2000
2,000 students rally in Tehran for Khatami's reforms
TEHRAN, Nov 26 (AFP) - More than 2,000 students gathered on a Tehran
campus Sunday for a rally that brought reformists and dissidents together
for a heated denunciation of the conservatives in Iran's clerical regime.
Supporters of reformist President Mohammad Khatami heard a series of often
fiery speeches attacking the powerful conservative current that has hobbled
the president's moves to liberalise Iranian society >>>
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Reformists call for open trial of suspected assassins
TEHRAN, Nov 27 (AFP) - The largest reformist party called Monday for
the courts to make public next month's long-awaited trial of the suspected
assassins of five dissidents and intellectuals in 1998. The Islamic Iran
Participation Front (IIPF), headed by President Mohammad Khatami's brother
Mohammad-Reza, said the case was a "big test" for the conservative-run
judiciary >>>
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18 to be tried for serial murders
TEHRAN, Nov 24 (AFP) - Eighteen people will go on trial in Iran on December
23 for the killing of five political dissidents in late 1998, state television
quoted the deputy head of the judiciary as saying Thursday. "Three
of the 18 will be tried as the principals in the murders and the 15 others
as accomplices," Hojatoleslam Hadi Marvi said >>>
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