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February 2, 2001
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* Jailed journalist on hunger strike:
press rights group
* Jailed Iranian journalist starts hunger
strike
* Victim's families in 1998 dissident murders reject verdicts
* Intelligence Agents' Trial Inconclusive
* Iran Acts Quickly to Close Case of 4 Slain Dissidents
* Conservatives bear down on reformers
with more arrests
* Murder trial clears the regime, leaves the victims dissatisfied
* No more political murders in Iran: minister
* Top pro-reform party denounces ruling in shock
murders case
* Iran reformers call for probe of hardline judiciary
* Journalist, father of student leader, freed on bail
* Wife worries over arrested pro-reform journalist
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Thursday
February 1, 2001
Jailed journalist on hunger strike: press rights group
TEHRAN, Feb 1 (AFP) - The reformist journalist Ahmad Zeid-Abadi, jailed
at Tehran's notorious Evin prison, has gone on a hunger strike to protest
jail conditions, the Iranian Association to Defend Press Freedom said Thursday.
The group said Zeid-Abadi started refusing food several days ago and urged
him "to end his hunger strike to preserve his health >>>
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Wednesday
January 31, 2001
Jailed Iranian journalist starts hunger strike
TEHRAN, Jan 31 (Reuters) - An outspoken Iranian journalist held in prison
on a "temporary" detention order for more than five months, has
gone on hunger strike, newspapers said on Wednesday. Hamshahri newspaper
quoted the spouse of the reformist Ahmad Zeydabadi as saying he had gone
on hunger strike to protest against prison conditions. Other newspapers
carried similar reports >>>
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Tuesday
January 30, 2001
Victim's families in 1998 dissident murders reject verdicts
TEHRAN, Jan 30 (AFP) - Relatives of several Iranian dissidents and intellectuals
killed in 1998 by secret service officials rejected the sentences handed
down against 15 agents, affirming that they were still seeking truth rather
than vengeance. "The families are against the issued death sentences
and they were never seeking such an outcome," said Nasser Zarafshan,
defence lawyer for two of the victim's families cited by the reformist
Doran-e Emrouz paper >>>
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Intelligence Agents' Trial Inconclusive
New York, January 29, 2001 (Human Rights Watch) - The secret trial of
eighteen Iranian intelligence officials accused of killing dissident intellectuals
has left key questions unanswered about the ultimate responsibility for
the murders, Human Rights Watch said today. Three of the defendants were
sentenced to death and two to life imprisonment on Saturday, January 27
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Monday
January 29, 2001
Iran Acts Quickly to Close Case of 4 Slain Dissidents
By Geneive Abdo
International Herald Tribune
January 29, 20001
TEHRAN Iran's powerful religious conservatives were quick to declare
on Sunday that a military court's decision to impose death sentences on
three Iranian secret agents convicted of killing four dissidents in 1998
meant that the case was closed. The warning, issued through the conservative
daily newspaper Resalat, brought into sharp focus the clash between religious
conservatives and reformers, who have charged that as many as 80 dissidents
were slain in the last 10 years on orders from the highest ranks of the
Iranian government >>>
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Conservatives bear down on reformers with more arrests
TEHRAN, Jan 28, 2001 (AFP) - Iran's conservative-led courts stepped
up the pressure on President Mohammad Khatami's reform movement Sunday
with the arrest of a pro-reform MP and a second journalist in as many days.
The arrests came as reformists still reeled from Saturday's verdict in
the closed-door trial of 18 secret agents for the 1998 murders of four
dissidents which they charged left many questions unanswered >>>
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Murder trial clears the regime, leaves the victims dissatisfied
TEHRAN, Jan 28 (AFP) - The judiciary left the clerical regime in the
clear and victims' families claiming justice was not done in a secret trial
that saw three former intelligence agents condemned to death for the 1998
murders of dissidents. "What matters is that we find out the truth,"
said Parastou Foruhar, daughter of nationalist leader Dariush Foruhar and
his wife Parvaneh, who were found stabbed to death in Tehran in November
1998. "And that hasn't happened," she said, speaking to AFP from
German >>>
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No more political murders in Iran: minister
TEHRAN, Jan 29 (AFP) - Intelligence Minister Ali Yunessi said Monday
that there would be no more political murders in Iran, following the sentencing
of 15 former intelligence agents by a military court. But he admitted in
a television interview that the verdicts handed down Saturday, including
three death sentences, "are a problem to us >>>
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Top pro-reform party denounces ruling in shock murders case
TEHRAN, Jan 28 (AFP) - The largest pro-reform party, headed by President
Mohammad Khatami's brother, on Sunday denounced the verdicts handed down
for the 1998 murders of several dissidents and intellectuals. "The
judge and the judiciary chief well know that one day the light will be
thrown on this affair," the Islamic Iran Participation Front (IIPF)
said after three intelligence agents were sentenced to death Saturday and
five others given life in prison >>>
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Iran reformers call for probe of hardline judiciary
TEHRAN, Jan 28 (Reuters) - More than 70 Iranian MPs have signed a petition
calling for an investigation of Tehran's hardline judiciary, behind the
arrest of liberal activists and the closure of reformist publications in
the Islamic republic. "Under the constitution, the judiciary must
defend individual and social rights and freedoms," the official news
agency IRNA on Sunday quoted Ibrahim Amini, a member of parliament's judicial
committee, as saying >>>
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Journalist, father of student leader, freed on bail
TEHRAN, Jan 29 (AFP) - An Iranian newspaper editor arrested for criticising
the judiciary after his student-leader son was jailed last month went free
on bail Monday, the official IRNA news agency said. Naghi Afshari, father
of the political head of the nation's largest pro-reform student group,
Ali Afshari, was released after posting 2,500 dollars in bail, his brother
said, cited by IRNA >>>
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Wife worries over arrested pro-reform journalist
TEHRAN, Jan 29 (AFP) - The wife of a reformist journalist arrested at
the weekend expressed fears over his fate Monday, saying his family did
not know where he had been taken. "We are extremely worried, because
we don't know where he is and the information the judiciary gave us was
incorrect," Farideh Saber told AFP >>>
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