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Friday
February 9, 2001
At least 20 injured, 100 held in Tehran protest: witnesses
TEHRAN, Feb 9 (AFP) - At least 20 young anti-government demonstrators
were injured and 100 were arrested in clashes with riot police breaking
up a Tehran rally, witnesses told AFP. Armed police fired tear gas and
beat some protesters with clubs after some 3,000 protesters chanted and
held banners reading "We Are Against the Islamic Regime," and
supporting freedom of expression >>>
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UN's Robinson and Brundtland to visit Tehran
TEHRAN, Feb 9 (AFP) - The UN high commissioner for Human Rights will
come to Tehran later this month for the Asian inter-governmental preparatory
meeting for the annual world conference against racism, the UN office in
Tehran said Thursday. UN coordinator in Tehran Francesco Bastagli told
AFP that Mary Robinson is due to arrive here February 19 >>>
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Iran, EU to hold latest semi-annual meeting in Stockholm: press
TEHRAN, Feb 9 (AFP) - Iran and the European Union will hold their sixth
regular meeting on February 13 in Sweden, current holder of the EU's rotating
presidency, the Dorane-Emrouz paper reported Thursday. Sweden's ambassador
to Tehran, Steen Hohwue-Christensen, was quoted as saying "topics
of mutual interest, including drug trafficking, refugees, regional developments,
as well as human rights," would be discussed >>>
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* At least 20 injured, 100 held in Tehran
protest: witnesses
* UN's Robinson and Brundtland to visit Tehran
* Iran, EU to hold latest semi-annual meeting in Stockholm:
press
* House and office of jailed pro-reform Iran journalist
searched: wife
* Jews' request for quashing of spying charges rejected:
radio
* Police arrest 42 people at "depraved" party
* Jews convicted of espionage call to be pardoned by Khamenei
* Women activists on Evin experience
* Officials deny jailed reformist journalist
on hunger strike
* "We told you - no more scoops"
* Iran denies Reuters bureau chief expelled
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Thursday
February 8, 2001
House and office of jailed pro-reform Iran journalist searched: wife
TEHRAN, Feb 8 (AFP) - The wife of a jailed reformist journalist said
Thursday that plainclothes men with a court warrant had searched her home
as well as the office of her husband's banned progressive review. Farideh
Saber told AFP that during her absence Wednesday afternoon, five plainclothes
men came to her house with a warrant from the judiciary and searched the
house in the presence of her two sons aged 12 and 17 >>>
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Wednesday
February 7, 2001
Jews' request for quashing of spying charges rejected: radio
TEHRAN, Feb 7 (AFP) - Ten Jews convicted last year of spying for Israel
have had their request for the quashing of their convictions rejected,
state radio reported Wednesday. The radio quoted a spokesman for the judiciary
in the southern city of Shiraz, where the 10 were tried and sentenced in
July last year, but gave no further details >>>
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Police arrest 42 people at "depraved" party
TEHRAN, Feb 7 (AFP) - Police arrested 42 people dancing at a "depraved"
party in the southern city of Shiraz, the conservative afternoon Kayhan
paper reported Wednesday. It said police who had been called to the scene
after receiving numerous complaints from neighbours found 22 men and 20
women dancing together at a "depraved" party, the majority of
whom were drunk >>>
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Tuesday
February 6, 2001
Jews convicted of espionage call to be pardoned by Khamenei
TEHRAN, Jan 6 (AFP) - Ten Iranian Jews convicted last year of spying
for Israel have called on supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to be pardoned,
Iran's Jewish MP, Maurice Motamed, was cited by the English-language Iran
Daily Tuesday as saying. "All the 10 Jews found guilty of espionage
have requested the leader for clemency on the occasion of the anniversary
of the Islamic revolution," Motamed told the daily in an exclusive
interview >>>
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Monday
February 5, 2001
Women activists on Evin experience
* Prison's
Revelations
By Mehrangiz Kar
* Evin is not that
bad
By Shirin Ebadi
* Evin Hotel is
further down the road
By Shahla Lahiji
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Officials deny jailed reformist journalist on hunger strike
TEHRAN, Feb 5 (AFP) - Officials have denied reports that jailed reformist
journalist Ahmad Zeid-Abadi has gone on a hunger strike to protest prison
conditions, a newspaper reported Monday. The conservative Kayhan afternoon
paper, citing prison officials, said a medical team had performed tests
Sunday which reveal that Zeid-Abadi is in a satisfactory physical condition,
and that inmates had also witnessed the journalist eat >>>
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"We told you - no more scoops"
Geneive Abdo, the Guardian's correspondent in Iran, was forced to
leave at the weekend under threat of prosecution. She explains the country's
problem with freedom of expression, and recounts her own experience
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Iran denies Reuters bureau chief expelled
TEHRAN, Feb 4 (AFP) - Iranian officials on Sunday denied they had ordered
the expulsion of the bureau chief of the Reuters news agency and said Jonathan
Lyons left because he was facing possible legal action >>>
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