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October 23-27, 2000 / Aban 2-6, 1379

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Friday
October 27, 2000

Teachers in Kerman strike over security concerns after kidnaps

TEHRAN, Oct 26 (AFP) - Dozens of Iranian teachers have gone on strike in Kerman province to protest lax security after a string of incidents, including the kidnap of two of their colleagues, newspapers said Thursday. The governmental Iran daily said the teachers are refusing to return to work in the city of Ravar until security officials in the southeastern province guarantee the safety of their lives and property >>> FULL TEXT

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* Teachers in Kerman strike over security concerns after kidnaps
* Shamsolvaezin winner of press freedom award
* Lawyers file for spy verdicts against four Jews to be annulled
* Iran says would-be assassins now back in jail
* Parliament gives defendants right to lawyer in court
* Judiciary closes three more pro-reform newspapers
* Judiciary confirms that dissident cleric charged with apostasy
* Court reduces jail term of pro-reform journalist
* Report: Another paper closed
* MP appears in court over new pro-reform newspaper

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October 26, 2000

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Wednesday
October 28, 2000

Shamsolvaezin winner of press freedom award

New York, October 23, 2000 (Committee to Protect Journalists) -- The winners of the Tenth Annual International Press Freedom Awards are: Mashallah Shamsolvaezin, reformist editor of several now-banned Iranian dailies. Shamsolvaezin was jailed in April after being sentenced to 30 months imprisonment for allegedly insulting Islamic principles in an article that criticized capital punishment in Iran. He is currently serving his term in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison >>> FULL TEXT

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Lawyers file for spy verdicts against four Jews to be annulled

TEHRAN, Oct 25 (AFP) - Lawyers for four Iranian Jews convicted of spying for Israel said they filed a motion at the prosecutor general's office on Tuesday for the ruling of the revolutionary court to be annulled. "We have filed a request at the prosecutor general's office for the outright annullation of the verdict against our clients," one of the lawyers, Mostafa Mandegar, told AFP >>> FULL TEXT

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Iran says would-be assassins now back in jail

TEHRAN, Oct 24 (Reuters) - The justice department in Iran's capital city said on Tuesday all the would-be assassins of key reform strategist Saeed Hajjarian were now in jail, a day after the department's chief said they had all been let go. Eight men, among them members of the security forces, were sentenced to jail terms after the assassination bid. But when an MP visited a prison in the southern city of Shiraz last week, one of the men supposed to be incarcerated in the jail was not there >>> FULL TEXT

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Tuesday
October 24, 2000

Parliament gives defendants right to lawyer in court

TEHRAN, Oct 24 (AFP) - Iran's pro-reform parliament on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed legislation giving defendants the automatic right to have their lawyers present in court for the first time since the Islamic revolution >>> FULL TEXT

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Judiciary closes three more pro-reform newspapers

TEHRAN, Oct 24 (AFP) - Iran's conservative-led judiciary has ordered the closure of three weekly newspapers close to the reform movement, state radio reported on Tuesday >>> FULL TEXT

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Monday
October 23, 2000

Judiciary confirms that dissident cleric charged with apostasy

TEHRAN, Oct 22 (AFP) - Iran's judiciary confirmed Sunday that jailed dissident cleric Hassan Yusefi Eshkevari has been formally accused of apostasy, a charge that could carry the death penalty. The state IRNA news agency cited a prosecutor from the conservative Special Court for Clergy (SCC) saying that Eshkevari had also been charged with hostility to God, corruption on Earth, and other serious offences >>> FULL TEXT

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Court reduces jail term of pro-reform journalist

TEHRAN, Oct 23 (AFP) - Iran's appeals court has cut the five-and-a-half-year jail term of pro-reform journalist Emadeddin Baghi to three years, Culture Minister Ataollah Mohajerani told AFP on Monday. The appeals court has found him innocent of insulting the judiciary, the country's powerful Guardian Council, Iran's state television, as well as a number of officials >>> FULL TEXT

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Report: Another paper closed

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's hard-line judiciary has ordered a small weekly newspaper to stop publishing and has warned more closures are to come, according to media reports Monday. Reasons for closing Sobh-e-Omid were not made clear, but hard-liners opposed to reforms initiated by President Mohammad Khatami have shut down more than two dozen pro-democracy publications in recent months in a bid to weaken his power base >>> FULL TEXT

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MP appears in court over new pro-reform newspaper

TEHRAN, Oct 22 (AFP) - An Iranian MP appeared in court Sunday after an inquiry was launched into his new pro-reform newspaper which hit the news-stands only two weeks ago, the official IRNA news agency said. Qolamheydar Ibrahimbai-Salami, director of the Hambastigi daily, said no formal complaint had been filed but that he had been questioned about the paper, IRNA reported >>> FULL TEXT

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