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* AI calls for independent investigations into killings
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* Press watchdog says Iranian journalist disappeared
* New reformist Iranian paper hits the streets
* Students gathering leads
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* Iran calls on refugees to go home
* Newspaper calls execution by stoning un-Islamic
* Police prevent march to protest murder of Forouhar
* Must read: Recent events & Khatami's reactions
* FMI condemns murder of Foruhar
* "Khordad" New pro-Khatami paper
* Hamid Mossadeq dies in Tehran
* Majid Sharif died of "heart failure"
* Mohajerani questions authority of clerical courts
* Acid attack mastermind executed
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* AI calls for independent investigations into killings
3 December (Amnesty International) - Amnesty International has been
alarmed by the recent killings of two prominent government critics -- as
well as by other recent events -- in the Islamic Republic of Iran. The
human rights organization calls upon the Iranian authorities to undertake
immediate, independent investigations into these events, in accordance
with United Nations "Principles on the Effective Prevention and Investigation
of Extra-Legal Arbitrary and Summary Executions", and to make public
the findings of any such investigations. Attacks against critics of the
government within Iran have rarely been subject to impartial and open investigation
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* Press watchdog says Iranian journalist disappeared
PARIS, Dec 3 (Reuters) - The Paris-based media watchdog Reporters Sans
Frontieres (Reporters Without Borders) expressed deep concern on Thursday
about what it said was the disappearance of a journalist in the Iranian
capital Tehran. The group said in a letter to Iranian President Mohammed
Khatamai that Pirouz Davani, editor-in-chief of the moderate left-wing
publication Pirouz, had been missing since the end of August. IT said another
Iranian newspaper, Kar o Karagar, wrote on November 28 about rumours that
he had been executed. The press group asked Khatami, a relative moderate,
to investigate the matter.
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* New reformist Iranian paper hits the streets
TEHRAN, Dec 3 (AFP) - The first edition of reformist newspaper Khordad,
run by a close associate of President Mohammad Khatami, hit Tehran's news
stands on Thursday. The paper takes its name from the date Khatami was
elected in May 1997. The 12-page colour newspaper is run by former interior
minister Abdollah Nuri, who was ousted in June after a censure motion by
the conservative dominated parliament amid a tense power struggle between
the regime's moderate and hardline factions ... FULL
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* Students gathering leads to violence
Tehran, (Hamshahri) - A moderate/leftist student
gathering calling for an end to the "militarization" of college
campuses and political violence leads to clashes ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
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* Iran calls on refugees to go home
TEHRAN, Dec 1 (AFP) -Iranian Interior Minister Abdulvahid Musavi Lari
called on Tuesday for the "organised return of all refugees,"
notably Afghans, to their homes. "The government wishes to pave the
way for the return of all refugees residing in Iran, within the framework
of a plan of action," Musavi Lari was quoted by state radio.
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* Newspaper calls execution by stoning un-Islamic
TEHRAN, Nov 30 (AFP) - Execution by stoning is a practice at odds with
the tenets of Islam and should be suspended immediately, a moderate Iranian
newspaper charged on Monday. "This practice does not conform to the
tradition of the Prophet (Mohammad) and is not mentioned in the holy Koran,"
said the moderate women's newspaper Zan, run by Faezeh Hashemi, daughter
of former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani... FULL
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* Police prevent march to protest murder of opposition leader
TEHRAN, Nov 30 (AFP) - Iranian police on Monday prevented around 1,000
people seeking to march in Tehran Monday following a memorial service for
slain nationalist opposition leader Dariush Foruhar and his wife. Witnesses
said the mourners started to march in the streets after the service demanding
an end to "repression and insecurity," but police immediately
ordered the crowd to disperse... FULL
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* Must read: Recent events & Khatami's reactions
Tehran, (Hamshahri) - An analysis of President Khatami's reactions to
the murder of the Forouhars and the attack on the American visitors ...
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* FMI condemns murder of Foruhar
TEHRAN, Nov 25 (AFP) - The outlawed but tolerated Freedom Movement of
Iran (FMI) condemned on Wednesday the "tragic murder of leading nationalist
dissident Dariush Foruhar and his wife. The killing of Foruhar and his
wife, Parvaneh Eskandari, was "sad for the people of Iran and a shock
for the world as well as treacherous," the FMI said in a statement...
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* "Khordad" New pro-Khatami paper\
Tehran, (Hamshahri) - Abdollah Nouri, a former interior minister and
current vice president, will launch a new newspaper on Saturday. "Khordad"
is named after the Iranian month Mohammad Khatami won his landslide election
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* Hamid Mossadeq dies in Tehran
TEHRAN, Nov 28 (AFP) - Hamid Mossadeq, grandson of one of Iran's most
popular and controversial prime ministers Mohammad Mossadeq, died in Tehran
on Saturday following a heart attack. The 59-year-old Mossadeq died in
a Tehran hospital, the official news agency IRNA reported ... FULL TEXT
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* Majid Sharif died of "heart failure"
Tehran, (Hamshahri) - Majid Sharif, a journalist close to liberal opposition
circles whose body was found under mysterious circumstances, died "heart
failure," according to the official coroner's report ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
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* Mohajerani questions authority of clerical courts
Tehran, (Hamshahri) - Culture Minister and Government Spokesman Ataollah
Mohajerani has questioned the authority of special courts in charge of
dealing with alleged offenses committed by clerics. There have been suggestions
that the judiciary would instruct these to bring charges against Hojatoleslam
Mousavi Khoeiniha, the publisher of the pro-Khatami Salam newspaper ...
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* Acid attack mastermind executed
TEHRAN, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Iranian authorities on Monday executed a
young Iranian man convicted of masterminding an acid attack against two
sisters following what newspapers said was a failed marriage proposal.
Keyhan said that Hamid-Reza Khoshnevis, who was put to death in Tehran,
had had two of his friends throw acid into the faces of Faezeh and Fattaneh
Mahmoudikia in 1996... FULL
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