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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 >>>
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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 >>>
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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 >>>
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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 >>>
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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
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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 >>>
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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 >>>
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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
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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 >>>
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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
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