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* Alarming pattern of killings and "disappearances"
* Bani Sadr given extra French police protection
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* Dissident Iran author missing -- relatives
* Gloves come off in Iran's political struggle
* Another missing Iranian writer dead under suspicious
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* Missing Iran dissident poet
found dead-relatives
* German court rejects appeal over Iran verdict
* Who is behind the slaying of Iranian dissidents?
* Sane'ie backs Khatami
* Organisation concerned about fate of missing journalist
* Khatami attacks conservatives
* Iran torn between reform, revolution on eve of anniversaries
* MUST READ: Karbaschi on politics
* Liberal opposition editor banned for one year
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* Alarming pattern of killings and "disappearances"
11 December 1998, (Amnesty International) - An alarming pattern of murders
and "disappearances" of several prominent Iranian writers and
government critics is emerging in Iran, Amnesty International said today.
Amnesty International is concerned for the safety of Mohammad Ja'far Puyandeh,
Hushang Golshiri, Kazem Kordavini, `Ali Ashraf Darvishiyan and Mansur Kushan,
all of whom are prominent Iranian writers ... FULL
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* Bani Sadr given extra French police protection
PARIS, Dec 11 (AFP) - Exiled former Iranian president Abolhassan Bani
Sadr has been given added French police protection following a wave of
kidnaps and assassinations in Iran, he said Friday. "Protection has
been reinforced around my home" since mid-November, following the
killing of nationalist opposition leader Daryush Foryhar and his wife,
he said ... FULL
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* Dissident Iran author missing -- relatives
TEHRAN, Dec 10 (Reuters) - An Iranian dissident author has gone missing
in the latest disappearance of secular opposition intellectuals, his relatives
said on Thursday. They said Mohammad Jafar Pouyandeh, a 45-year-old translator
and author, had gone missing after he left his Tehran office on Wednesday
afternoon. ``We have contacted all relevant authorities, including police,
hospitals, and the morgue, with no trace of him to be found,'' a relative
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* Gloves come off in Iran's political struggle
TEHRAN, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Iran's powerful conservatives have slammed
President Mohammad Khatami for his staunch defence of his ``civil society''
programme, taking aim for the first time directly at the popular moderate
leader. In a series of public statements and press commentaries, the conservatives
blasted Khatami's question-and-answer session on December 7 before a university
crowd hungry for social and political reform, accusing him of playing partisan
politics and defaming the divine values of the Islamic Revolution... FULL
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* Another missing Iranian writer dead under suspicious circumstances
New York, December 9, 1998 (Human Rights Watch) - Human Rights Watch
urged the Iranian government to investigate the recent death of an Iranian
writer under suspicious circumstances. The body of Iranian poet, writer,
and free expression advocate Mohammad Makhtari was found today in a Tehran
city morgue, Human Rights Watch said. Marks on his head and neck made it
appear that he had been murdered, possibly by strangulation, although no
autopsy has yet been carried out ... FULL
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* Missing Iran dissident poet found dead-relatives
TEHRAN, Dec 9 (Reuters) - The body of an Iranian
dissident poet has been found after he went missing in Tehran last week,
his relatives said on Wednesday. They said Mohammad Mokhtari's son, Siavash,
identified his father's body at a Tehran morgue on Wednesday. Mokhtari
had been missing since he left his home last Thursday. ``Officials said
Mokhtari's body had been found on Friday in the outskirts of Tehran but
that it had not been identified,'' a relative told Reuters. ``The cause
of death is not known yet.'' There was no official confirmation of the
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* German court rejects appeal over Iran verdict
KARLSRUHE, Germany, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Germany's highest criminal court
rejected on Wednesday an appeal against a 1997 verdict which concluded
that Iranian intelligence had ordered the assassination of Kurdish dissidents
in Berlin. The ruling by the Federal Court of Justice means the verdicts
in the trial, which prompted a diplomatic rift between the European Union
and Iran for several months, are legally binding ... FULL
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* Who is behind the slaying of Iranian dissidents?
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- After Dariush Foruhar and his wife were found stabbed
to death under mysterious circumstances, dissidents began to more openly
question a string of slayings of critics of the Iranian government. Dissidents
and newspapers are beginning to question the spate of slayings, emboldened
by the promise of political freedoms offered by President Mohammad Khatami,
a moderate cleric elected last year. Others killed include a Tehran University
professor, a magazine editor, a publisher, three Christian priests and
two Sunni Muslim preachers who spoke out against Iran's Shiite Muslim leaders...
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* Sane'ie backs Khatami
TEHRAN (Hamshahri) - Ayatollah Yousef Sane'ie backs Khatami, Islam is
"not a repressive religion." ... FULL
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* Organisation concerned about fate of missing journalist
The International Secretariat of World Organisation Against Torture
(OMCT) requests your URGENT intervention regarding the following situation
in Iran. Brief description of the situation: The International Secretariat
has been informed by several sources that on 3 December 1998, Mr. Mohamad
Mokhtari, a famous Iranian writer, allegedly disappeared in Tehran... FULL TEXT
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* Khatami attacks conservatives
TEHRAN (Hamshahri) - Khatami responds to questions from students at
Tehran University; attacks conservatives and insists on people's freedoms
and right to determine their future... FULL
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* Iran torn between reform, revolution on eve of anniversaries
TEHRAN, Dec 8 (AFP) - Austere portraits of Ayatollah Khomeini watch
over Tehran streets as a reminder that his legacy lives on, but schoolgirls
cover their notebooks with pictures of "Titanic" heart-throb
Leonardo DiCaprio. On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic
revolution, Iran is a country of seeming contradictions and one torn between
loyalty to the ideals of the revolution and a profound desire for reform
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* MUST READ: Karbaschi on politics
TEHRAN (Hamshahri) - Detailed interview with (Former?) Tehran Mayor
Gholam-hossein Karbaschi on moderation, tolerance and peaceful opposition
in politics ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN... Part
(1) ... Part
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