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* Leftist on hunger strike in French prison
* Iran slams U.N. criticism on rights as ``political''
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* Many demands of Iranian refugees' met
* Iran frees on bail journalists of banned daily
* Rights violated in Iran despite reform moves - U.N.
* Freed Iran newspaper head says held in solitary
* IHRWG condemns crackdown on Baha'is in Iran
* Iranian refugees in Iraq protest against UN office
* IHRWG Condemns Crackdown on
the freedom of expression
* Khamenei speaks on press freedom
* Some 500 Baha'i homes raided in Iran
* Human Rights Watch calls for release of Iranian journalist
* Iran reformists meet rejection
* Hadi Khamenei's speech at rally
* Council of Guardians rejects criticisms
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* Leftist on hunger strike in French prison
PARIS, Oct 23 (Reuters) - An Iranian leftist exile jailed in France
on common criminal charges has been on a life-threatening hunger strike
in a Paris jail for over a month, colleagues said on Friday. The Organisation
of Guerrillas of the Iranian People said in a statement that Ahmad Fahimi,
also known as Khosrow, was in ``a critical state of health, might lose
his sight and hearing and could be in danger of death in the coming days.''...
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* Iran slams U.N. criticism on rights as ``political''
TEHRAN, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Iran on Friday rejected as ``political''
a U.N. report which said significant human rights violations were continuing
there even though many Iranian leaders wished to move towards a more tolerant
society. Foreign Ministry spokesman Mahmoud Mohammadi said the report was
``incompatible with realities and current developments in Iran'' after
last year's election of reformist President Mohammad Khatami, the Iranian
news agency IRNA reported... FULL
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* Many demands of Iranian refugees' met
October 21, 1998 (International Federation of Iranian Refugees) - The
sit-in of 200 Iranian refugees in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, in protest to
the policies and practices of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees (UNHCR) - Iraq, has ended. (See earlier statement) Faced with
local pressure from the sit-in participants as well international pressure
coordinated by the International Federation of Iranian Refugees (IFIR),
the UNHCR finally addressed many of the legitimate demands of the refugees...
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* Rights violated in Iran despite reform moves - U.N.
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 21 (Reuters) - Significant human rights violations
continue in Iran, though many of the country's leaders wish to move toward
a more tolerant and peaceful society, a U.N. investigator said on Wednesday.
`The obstacles to be overcome in achieving this goal are very evident and
success is by no means assured,'' said the U.N. Human Rights Commission's
special representative for Iran, Maurice Copithorne of Canada... FULL
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* Iran frees on bail journalists of banned daily
TEHRAN, Oct 21 (Reuters) - An Iranian court on Wednesday released on
bail two journalists arrested a month ago after their outspoken moderate
daily was banned, the Iranian news agency IRNA reported. It quoted a court
official as saying Tous daily's managing-director Mohammad Sadeq Javadi-Hessar
and columnist Ebrahim Nabavi, arrested on unspecified security charges
in mid-September, were freed on bail. The move followed the release on
bail last week of Hamid Reza Jalaeipour, the newspaper's business director.
Editor Mashallah Shamsolvaezin remains in jail... FULL
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* Freed Iran newspaper head says held in solitary
TEHRAN, Oct 19 (Reuters) - The director of a banned moderate Iranian
newspaper, who was released after a month in prison, said he had been held
in solitary confinement and not told of the charges against him, a weekly
magazine reported. ``Indirect psychological torture during 27 days through
solitary confinement...cannot be justified by any civil, legal or religious
principles,'' Hamid Reza Jalaeipour, freed on bail last week, told the
latest issue of the weekly Aban... FULL
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* Iranian refugees in Iraq protest against UN office
The International Federation of Iranian Refugees, October 13, 1998 --
It is estimated that 3,700 Iranian refugees are currently residing in Northern
Iraq. On September 13, 1998, 400 refugees living in Suleymaniyah and surrounding
areas initiated a two-day sit-in to protest the UNHCR's irresponsibility.
As a result, UNHCR staff met with refugee representatives to discuss their
demands. The protesters ended their sit-in temporarily, giving the UNHCR
a 15-day deadline to meet their demands. When their demands were not addressed,
200 protesters began a second sit-in on September 27, 1998 at the Erbil
UNHCR office. The sit-in continues... FULL
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* IHRWG condemns crackdown on Baha'is in Iran
Iranian Human Rights Working Group (IHRWG), Oct 16, 1998 -- The Iranian
Human Rights Working Group (IHRWG) strongly condemns the recent crackdown
against the Iranian Baha'i community. The Iranian Baha'is have been ruthlessly
persecuted by the authorities of the Islamic Republic and are deprived
of most basic rights, including the right to freely and publicly practice
their religion, the right to higher education, the right to representation,
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* IHRWG Condemns Crackdown on the freedom of
expression
Iranian Human Rights Working Group (IHRWG) - "We
remind the authorities of the Islamic Republic that it is the basic right
of all Iranians to criticize and question both their leaders and their
government and to freely express their opinion on both matters. The freedom
of expression becomes meaningful only when it is accorded to one's opponents
as well as one's supporters..."... FULL
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* Khamenei speaks on press freedom
Oct 8, (BBC) - The Iranian leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has said
the press is free to criticise the leadership on any subject, provided
it does not try to undermine the government. Speaking on Iranian radio,
he said the state had to confront those who misused freedom of expression
to try and hatch conspiracies against the government... FULL
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* Some 500 Baha'i homes raided in Iran
TORONTO, Oct. 7 (UPI) - Iranian authorities are reported to have raided
more than 500 Baha'i homes across the country, seizing television sets,
furniture and other items of private property. Gerald Filson, a spokesman
for the Baha'i Community of Canada, said today the raids were carried out
simultaneously with the arrest of 36 Baha'i academics in 14 Iranian cities
last week... FULL
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* Human Rights Watch calls for release of Iranian journalist
New York, October 7, 1998 - In an open letter sent today to the Head
of the Judiciary in Iran, Ayatollah Yazdi, Human Rights Watch called for
the immediate and unconditional release of four journalists from the daily
newspaper Tous, who were arrested on the order of a Revolutionary Court
on September 16. "We fear that the real motive in jailing the four
journalists is to punish them for their activities as journalists, and
to intimidate other independent-minded journalists in Iran," said
Hanny Megally, the Executive Director of the Middle East and North Africa
Division... FULL
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* Iran reformists meet rejection
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Most reformists who sought to run for a key assembly
that chooses Iran's spiritual leader -- the country's most powerful position
-- have been rejected by hard-liners. The list of candidates, published
Wednesday, is evidence of the overriding clout of the hard-liners in Iran's
clerical government, where President Mohammad Khatami and a small group
of moderates are struggling to ease social and political restrictions ...
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* Hadi Khamenei's speech at rally
TEHRAN, (Hamshahri) - At a rally attended by some 3,000 outside Tehran
University, Hojatoleslam Hadi Khamenei questions methods used for disqualifing
Experts Assembly candidates and ... FULL
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* Council of Guardians rejects criticisms
TEHRAN, (Hamshahri) - The Council of Guardians has detailed its reasons
for disqualifying 214 candidates for the Assembly of Experts ... FULL TEXT
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