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September 11-15, 2000 / Shahrivar 21-25, 1379
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Friday
September 15, 2000
Iran closes notorious Tohid prison after protests
TEHRAN, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Iran's notorious Tohid prison, run by the
intelligence ministry, has been closed down, newspapers on Thursday quoted
a reformist parliamentarian as saying. ``The intelligence minister ordered
the closure of the (prison)...and nobody was held there when our delegation
visited,'' the daily Aftab-e Yazd quoted Ali Akbar Mousavi-Khoeini as saying.
Other newspapers carried similar reports >>>
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Detained dissident in Iran suffering from diabetes
Sept. 13, Teheran (dpa) - Hassan Yussefi-Ashkevari, a detained dissident
in Iran , is suffering from diabetes and should be released from jail for
medical reasons, the students news agency ISNA reported Wednesday. In a
letter to the judiciary, the dissident's wife, Mohtaram Yussefi-Ashkevari,
said her husband has had several attacks in prison during the night which
temporarily even led to partial paralysis. She warned of dire consequences
if he remained in prison without medical care, ISNA said >>>
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Schoolgirls win reprieve from head scarves, black coats
TEHRAN, Sept 15 (AFP) - Iranian girls will be allowed to take off their
obligatory head scarves at school and wear coats in colors besides black
for the first time in 19 years when classes start in late September. Girls
aged between 9 and 11 will be released from the obligation to wear the
traditional and mostly black head scarf, or maqna-e, which covers their
entire heads and shoulders, leaving just their faces uncovered >>> FULL TEXT
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Teheran plans separate playing grounds in parks for girls
Sept 13, Teheran (dpa) - Teheran plans to separate the playing grounds
for girls in parks, the daily Iran reported Wednesday. The decision was
taken by the Teheran City Council, the daily said >>>
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* Iran closes notorious Tohid prison
after protests
* Detained dissident in Iran suffering from diabetes
* Schoolgirls win reprieve from head scarves, black coats
* Teheran plans separate playing grounds in parks for girls
* Conservatives blame reformists for unrest
* Rely less on prisons, head of judiciary says
* Iran hangs five for murder
* Journalist missing for two years
* Theatre burns following screening of film on tribal women
* Iran indicts alleged murderers of dissidents
* Released Iranian student leader vows to continue freedom
fight
* New reformist daily hits newsstands
* Khamenei's brother summoned to court
* Suspects in murders of dissidents informed of charges,
trial soon
* Iran sends 24 to prison over post-election riots
* Reformist sentenced to prison, whipping
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Thursday
September 14, 2000
Conservatives blame reformists for unrest
TEHRAN, Sept 14 (AFP) - A conservative investigative body blamed reformist
politicians Thursday for last month's unrest in Khorramabad, western Iran,
but its conclusions were promptly rejected by the National Security Council
headed by reformist President Mohammad Khatami. The State Inspectorate
Organisation singled out Deputy Interior Minister Mostafa Tajzadeh, a bete
noire of conservatives, and the local branch of the reformist Islamic Iran
Participation Front (IIPF), which is headed by Khatami's brother Mohammad-Reza
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Rely less on prisons, head of judiciary says
TEHRAN, Sept 14 (AFP) - Iran's overcrowded prisons should be considered
only a last resort for criminals as the country looks for other ways to
bring down crime, judiciary chief Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi-Shahroudi said,
as cited Thursday by the official IRNA news agency. Pointing to the "negative
social consequences" of imprisonment, Shahroudi said he did not recommend
the jailing of criminals, calling on officials to make "exhaustive
efforts to prevent the bad results of imprisonment."
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Iran hangs five for murder
TEHRAN, Sept 14 (AFP) - Five people were hanged this week in Iran after
being found guilty of murder, press reports said Thursday. Masoud Eslami,
a drug addict who killed his 53-year-old aunt last year and stole her gold,
was hanged in Tehran's Qasr prison Wednesday >>>
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Wednesday
September 13, 2000
Journalist missing for two years
13 September 2000, Paris (Reporters sans frontières) - In a letter
to the head of the judiciary, Ayatollah Shahroudi, RSF expressed its deep
concern about journalist Pirouz Davani, who disappeared at the end of August
1998. The organisation, which asked at that time for an inquiry into this
case, "wishes to be informed today about the progress of this inquiry".
"The case of this journalist is extremely worrying especially in a
country with twelve journalists in jail", added Robert Ménard,
RSF's secretary-general >>>
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Theatre burns following screening of film on tribal women
TEHRAN, Sept 13 (AFP) - An Iranian movie theatre was damaged by fire
following protests over its screening of a film about the life of women
in the Arab south of the country, reports said Wednesday. The blaze overnight
Monday in the southwestern provincial capital of Ahwaz was probably set
intentionally after the city's Arab population protested over the film
"Bride of Fire," the Entekhab paper said >>>
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Tuesday
September 12, 2000
Iran indicts alleged murderers of dissidents
TEHRAN, Sept 12 (Reuters) - Iran's judiciary has indicted 18 people,
including senior intelligence officials, on charges of murdering dissidents,
newspapers reported on Tuesday. The accused are to stand trial in a military
court for the murder of four dissident intellectuals in 1998, the daily
Hayat-e No quoted a senior judiciary official as saying. Other newspapers
carried similar reports >>>
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Released student leader vows to continue freedom fight
September 9, 2000, TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- The leader of a pro-democracy
student group jailed for his outspoken criticism of government hard-liners
was released this week but said Saturday he would keep fighting for political
freedoms. "Prison will never discourage me or other students from
seeking justice and freedom. I will not give up and will continue fighting
for democracy even if I'm jailed for life," said Heshmatollah Tabarzadi,
who was released Wednesday >>>
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Monday
September 11, 2000
New reformist daily hits newsstands
TEHRAN, Sept 9 (AFP) - A new reformist daily, close to Iran's moderate
President Mohammad Khatami, hit the country's newsstands Saturday following
the judiciary's recent massive crackdown on the pro-reform press. The Aftab-e-Yazd
paper, founded by Mansour Mozafari, was previously only published and sold
in the central province of Yazd, the birth place of Khatami >>>
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Khamenei's brother summoned to court
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - The younger brother of Iran's supreme leader has
been summoned to court on charges related to the reformist newspaper he
launched in June, his aide said Monday. The summons order for Hadi Khamenei
was the third issued by the Special Clergy Court since the Hayat-e-Nou
newspaper debuted, the aide, Abbas Safaifar, told The Associated Press.
He did not say when the order was issued or provide details of the charges
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Suspects in murders of dissidents informed of charges, trial soon
TEHRAN, Sept 11 (AFP) - The suspects in the 1998 assassinations of several
Iranian dissidents and intellectuals have 10 days to find lawyers after
being told of the charges against them, state radio said Monday. The report,
quoting judicial officials, said 18 suspects have now been informed of
specific charges they will face when they appear in Tehran's military court
and said the trial will begin "soon."
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Iran sends 24 to prison over post-election riots
TEHRAN, Sept 11 (AFP) - An Iranian court sentenced 24 people to prison
terms of up to five years for their role in post-election riots that erupted
earlier this year, the official IRNA news agency said Monday. The court
handed down the sentences over the riots which broke out in Khalkhal after
the Guardians Council annulled the results of the northwestern town's vote
in February's parliamentary elections >>>
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Reformist sentenced to prison, whipping
TEHRAN, Sept 11 (AFP) - A local official from Iran's top pro-reform
party was sentenced to 20 lashes and four months in prison for defaming
a conservative candidate for parliament, press reports said Monday. Alamdar
Adibi, head of the Islamic Iran Participation Front (IIPF) in the western
town of Andimeshk, was also fined for "spreading lies" about
Isah Keshvari, the conservative candidate there in February's parliamentary
polls, the Kayhan paper said >>>
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