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Friday
September 22, 2000
Iranian verdict in espionage case "disturbing"
(New York, September 22, 2000 )--Human Rights Watch today expressed
its disappointment over the decision of an Iranian appeals court to uphold
prison terms for ten Jews and two Muslims from Shiraz initially accused
of espionage for Israel. The appeals court upheld their conviction on charges
of cooperation with a hostile state, and imposed on the defendants reduced
prison sentences of between two and nine years >>>
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Convicted Iranian Jews can still seek quashing of trial
TEHRAN, Sept 22 (AFP) - Ten Iranian Jews whose sentences for spying
for Israel were reduced on appeal Thursday, can still apply for their whole
trial to be quashed, a judiciary official confirmed Friday. If a submission
to the Islamic republic's prosecutors is upheld they would be given a new
trial before a different court in the province of Shiraz, the southern
city's judiciary chief Hossein-Ali Amiri told AFP >>>
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Eleven Jews intercepted trying to flee
Sept 21, 2000, WASHINGTON (AP) - Eleven Jews who attempted to leave
Iran surreptitiously over a number of years have disappeared and could
be imprisoned or have suffered an even worse fate, U.S. Jewish groups have
told The State Department. The disclosure coincided with a ruling by an
appeals court in Iran reducing the time 10 other Iranian Jews found guilty
of cooperating with Israel will be required to serve in prison >>> FULL
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* Iranian verdict in espionage case
"disturbing"
* Convicted Iranian Jews can still seek quashing of trial
* Eleven Jews intercepted trying to flee
* Jews' lawyers unhappy with appeal verdict
* Khatami criticizes discrimination against women
* UNHCR chief says Afghan programme extended, cuts short
Iran visit
* Reformist weekly magazine banned: press
* Court challenges defence harassment claims in Jews spy
case
* Security council at odds over unrest report: paper
* U.S. companies to attend Teheran trade fair
* U.S. businesses demand end of sanctions against Iran
* Khamenei sacks security police chief
* Rioters rampage during Khatami's speech: report
* Pro-reform students appeal for calm ahead of new school
year
* Pro-reform journalist expecting shorter prison term
* Special committee against wife beating
* Khamenei pardons women, children in prison
* Doctors refuse abortions for blood disorder
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Thursday
September 21, 2000
Jews' lawyers unhappy with appeal verdict
SHIRAZ, Iran, Sept 21 (AFP) - Lawyers defending 10 Iranian Jews convicted
of spying for Israel said Thursday they were unhappy with an appeal court
verdict on the case, even though it cut several years off jail sentences
imposed in July. "Certainly the court accepted part of our submissions
and reduced the sentences," defence spokesman Ismail Nasseri told
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Khatami criticizes discrimination against women
TEHRAN, Sept 21 (AFP) - President Mohammad Khatami called Wednesday
for Iranian society to let go of habits which lead to discrimination against
women, the official IRNA news agency reported. He said under real Islam,
women are "wise, free and respectful, and like men, have the right
to benefit from all of life's gifts" and criticised the form of Islam
based on "superstitions and traditions." >>>
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UNHCR chief says Afghan programme extended, cuts short Iran visit
TEHRAN, Sept 21 (AFP) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR),
Sadako Ogata warned that the international community was becoming "increasingly
disillusioned" about the fate of the roughly 2.6 million Afghans who
have fled their war-torn homeland to Iran and Pakistan. Her sharp words
came as she also said she would not be meeting with President Mohammad
Khatami as previously announced but was returning to Geneva immediately
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Reformist weekly magazine banned: press
TEHRAN, Sept 21 (AFP) - Iran's special religious court has banned the
reformist weekly magazine Khalij-e-Fars (Persian Gulf), published in the
sourthern city of Boushehr, the reformist daily Afta-e-Yazd reported Thursday.
The newspaper said the magazine's management was informed of the decision
not by the court itself but by the ministry of culture and Islamic guidance
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Wednesday
September 20, 2000
Court challenges defence harassment claims in Jews spy case
TEHRAN, Sept 20 (AFP) - An Iranian court spokesman on Wednesday challenged
the defence team for 10 Iranian Jews convicted of spying for Israel to
reveal the names of judicial officials they said tried to pressure them
into admitting the men were spies. "The lawyers have worked on this
case since the beginning without constraint or limit," said Hossein-Ali
Amiri, one day after the defence made the claims to AFP >>>
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Security council at odds over unrest report: paper
TEHRAN, Sept 20 (AFP) - Members of Iran's National Security Council
are at odds over a report to President Mohammad Khatami on the deadly unrest
that rocked a provincial city last month, press reports said Tuesday. The
Council delivered its report to the president Monday despite being unable
to agree on many of its points, the pro-reform Hayat-e No paper said, citing
"informed sources" who had spoken with a student news agency
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Tuesday
September 19, 2000
Pro-reform journalist, lawyer released from prison
TEHRAN, Sept 19 (AFP) - A pro-reform journalist and a lawyer who has
defended the embattled reformist press were both released from prison on
Tuesday, a defence attorney told AFP. Journalist Mohammad Qouchani and
lawyer Mohammad-Ali Jedari-Forouqi, both jailed last month in separate
cases, were freed from Tehran's Evin prison, said Forouqi's lawyer, Nemat
Ahmadi >>>
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Decision on appeal in Iran spy case
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - An Iranian appeals court will announce a decision
by Thursday on the appeals of 10 Jews convicted and sentenced to jail on
charges of spying for Israel, state-run radio reported Monday night, quoting
a senior judiciary official. Hossein Ali Amiri, the judiciary chief of
southern Fars province where the men were tried, said on Iranian radio
that the decision was to be released by Thursday at the latest >>>
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Monday
September 18, 2000
Khamenei sacks security police chief
TEHRAN, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
on Sunday sacked the hardline security police chief, who is mired in a
court case that saw his subordinates convicted of torture. The official
news agency IRNA said Khamenei had ordered the removal of Brigadier General
Mohammad Reza Naqdi, who is fighting an eight-month jail sentence he received
last year for slander in a graft scandal in Tehran municipality >>> FULL
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Rioters rampage during Khatami's speech: report
TEHRAN, Sept 18 (AFP) - More than 100 rioters smashed buses and robbed
shopkeepers with swords during a speech in the western Iranian city of
Orumiyeh by President Mohammad Khatami, press reports said Monday. Chanting
"Freedom! Freedom!" and berating shop-owners for not closing
down to attend Khatami's speech on Saturday, gangs destroyed vehicles and
then broke into and robbed the city's gold bazaar, the Resalaat paper said >>> FULL
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Pro-reform students appeal for calm ahead of new school year
TEHRAN, Sept 18 (AFP) - Iran's largest pro-reform student group appealed
for calm going into the new school year in order to avoid fresh unrest
that could harm the reform movement, press reports said Monday. The spokesman
for the Office to Consolidate Unity (OCU) said students should pursue a
policy of "active calm" to avoid "falling into the trap
of physical confrontation," the Aftab-e Yazd newspaper reported >>> FULL
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Pro-reform journalist expecting shorter prison term
TEHRAN, Sept 16 (AFP) - Iranian journalist Mashallah Shamsolvaezin,
who has been granted a week's leave from prison, said in Saturday's press
that his solitary confinement could cut time off his 30-month sentence.
Shamsolvaezin, imprisoned in April for offending Islam after articles in
his now banned newspaper questioned Iran's Islamic eye-for-an-eye law of
retribution, told the Aftab-e Yazd paper he expected the jail term to be
shortened >>>
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Special committee against wife beating
Sept 17, 2000, Teheran (dpa) - Iran is setting up a special committee
to combat physical abuse of women, especially in the home by husbands,
the students' news agency ISNA reported Sunday. ``This committee is compromised
of representatives of the interior and education ministries, the police
and the coroner's office and aimed at avoiding abuse of women, especially
violence at home by husbands against their wives,'' said Zahra Shojaie,
the presidential advisor on women's affairs >>>
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Doctors refuse abortions for blood disorder
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian doctors are refusing to abort fetuses diagnosed
with the debilitating genetic blood disorder thalassemia, fearing prosecution
for killing an unborn child, the Aftab-e Yazd newspaper said on Sunday.
Abortion is normally illegal in the Islamic Republic punishable with a
jail term and payment of blood money to the family, but a ``fatwa'' (a
written decision on a point of law) from the country's religious leadership
approves abortion on thalassemic fetuses under 10 weeks old >>>
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Doctors refuse abortions for blood disorder
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian doctors are refusing to abort fetuses diagnosed
with the debilitating genetic blood disorder thalassemia, fearing prosecution
for killing an unborn child, the Aftab-e Yazd newspaper said on Sunday.
Abortion is normally illegal in the Islamic Republic punishable with a
jail term and payment of blood money to the family, but a ``fatwa'' (a
written decision on a point of law) from the country's religious leadership
approves abortion on thalassemic fetuses under 10 weeks old >>>
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