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Jan 16-19, 2001 / Dey 26-30, 1379

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Friday
January 19, 2001

Shahla Sherkat, editor of women's magazine gets jail term

Journalist Shahla Sherkat, managing editor of the women's weekly Zanan, was sentenced to four months in prison and a fine for attending the "un-Islamic" Berlin conference in April, court sources said Friday. Earlier indications had only mentioned that she was fined. Sherkat has been sentenced to a four-month jail term, which she has appealed, said the sources, adding that her fine came to about 3,000 dollars >>> FULL TEXT

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Kian ban condemned

(New York, January 19, 2001) -- Human Rights Watch today strongly condemned Iran's closure of Kiyan, a ten-year-old independent journal that specialized in issues of philosophy, religion, and literature. Kiyan's closure was announced by state-controlled radio and television on January 17. The international monitoring organization urged the Iranian authorities to lift the closure order immediately and end the government's campaign to suppress independent critical media >>> FULL TEXT

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* Shahla Sherkat, editor of women's magazine gets jail term
* Kian ban condemned
* Guardian Council bars state funds for unmarried women to study abroad
* U.S. "deeply concerned" about Iran court ruling
* Tehran rally in memory of former Prime Minister Bazargan
* Harsh Sentences Condemned: Human Rights Watch
* Conservative courts suspend leading pro-reform monthly
* Iran executes six of 11 people condemned to hang, spares three
* German chancellor plans Iran visit despite new tensions
* EU expresses "deep concern" over verdicts against Iranian intellectuals
* 10 convicted in Berlin conference case appeal verdicts
* Supreme court upholds stoning for woman
* Amnesty International condemns reports of planned executions

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Thursday
January 18, 2001

Guardian Council bars state funds for unmarried women to study abroad

TEHRAN, Jan 18 (AFP) - The conservative Guardian Council overruled parliament's repeal of a 15-year-old law barring unmarried women from getting state scholarships to study in foreign universities, press reports said Thursday. The Guardians Council, which has final say on all laws passed by parliament to ensure they conform to the constitution and Islam, said parliament's decision to delete the word "male" from an annex to the law was out of order >>> FULL TEXT

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U.S. "deeply concerned" about Iran court ruling

WASHINGTON, Jan 17 (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday expressed deep concern over the sentencing of leading Iranian dissidents for taking part in a Berlin conference last year, and urged the international community to join in condemning Iran's actions >>> FULL TEXT

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Tehran rally in memory of former Prime Minister Bazargan

TEHRAN, Jan 18 (AFP) - Some 2,000 people took part in a rally in Tehran Thursday to honour the memory of former prime minister and leading progressive Islamist Mehdi Bazargan, who fell into disgrace shortly after the 1979 revolution and died six years ago. A large number of reformists close to President Mohammad Khatami took part in the rally at the Hosseinieh-ershad mosque, but conservatives were also present >>> FULL TEXT

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Wednesday
January 17, 2001

Harsh Sentences Condemned: Human Rights Watch

January 17, 2001

H. E. Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi-Shahroudi
Head of the Judiciary
Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran

Your Excellency:

Human Rights Watch condemns the arbitrary and harsh sentences handed down by a Revolutionary Court in Tehran on Saturday January 13, 2001 against seven of the seventeen defendants being tried for attending an international conference in Berlin, Germany, in April 2000 >>> FULL TEXT

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Conservative courts suspend leading pro-reform monthly

TEHRAN, Jan 17 (AFP) - Conservative-dominated judiciary on Wednesday suspended a leading pro-reform political and cultural magazine, state radio reported. The Kian monthly, headed by Reza Kafash-Tehrani, was charged with publishing lies aimed at disrupting public calm, as well as insulting Islamic sanctities, it said >>> FULL TEXT

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Iran executes six of 11 people condemned to hang, spares three

STEHRAN, Jan 17 (AFP) - Six of 11 people due to be hanged simultaneously in Iran were executed at dawn Wednesday, state radio reported. Three of the condemned men were forgiven by the victims' families, and thereby spared, while the radio said the hanging of the remaining two had been put off till later >>> FULL TEXT

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Tuesday
January 16, 2001

German chancellor plans Iran visit despite new tensions

BERLIN, Jan 16 (AFP) - German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said Monday that he plans to visit Tehran "in the not too distant future" despite renewed tensions between Germany and Iran over the jailing of dissident >>> FULL TEXT

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EU expresses "deep concern" over verdicts against Iranian intellectuals

STOCKHOLM, Jan 16 (AFP) - The European Union (EU) expressed concern Tuesday over the "harsh" convictions handed down against 10 Iranian reformists by Tehran's revolutionary court following an "un-Islamic" meeting in Berlin >>> FULL TEXT

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10 convicted in Berlin conference case appeal verdicts

TEHRAN, Jan 16 (AFP) - Ten reformists slapped with long jail terms by Tehran's revolutionary court over an "un-Islamic" meeting in Berlin have appealed the verdicts, the government-run Iran paper reported Tuesday >>> FULL TEXT

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Supreme court upholds stoning for woman

TEHRAN, Jan 16 (AFP) - Supreme court has upheld a death sentence by public stoning for a woman convicted of murdering her husband with the help of her lover, the Khabar paper said Tuesday >>> FULL TEXT

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Amnesty International condemns reports of planned executions

NICOSIA, Jan 16 (AFP) - The human rights group Amnesty International called Tuesday for urgent action to dissuade the Iranian authorities from allowing 16 planned executions to go ahead, including a reported mass hanging of 11 men >>> FULL TEXT

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January 15, 2001

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