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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 >>>
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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 >>>
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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 >>>
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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 >>>
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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 >>>
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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 >>>
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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 >>>
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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 >>>
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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
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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 >>>
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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 >>>
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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 >>>
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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 >>>
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