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* U.S. rights group backs jailed Iran cleric
* Baha'is: Iran's crimes at home
* Leftist on hunger strike in French prison
* Iran slams U.N. criticism on rights as ``political''
* 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
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* U.S. condemns arrests in Iran

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The State Department accused Iran of persecuting members of the Baha'i faith and urged that death sentences against six Baha'i prisoners be set aside. More than 500 homes and office buildings owned or rented by Iranian Baha'is have been raided and at least 36 faculty members from a Baha'i institute arrested, deputy spokesman James Foley said Thursday... FULL TEXT

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* With raids and arrests, Iran signals new effort to suppress bahais

The New York Times, October 29, 1998 - One day in late September, Iranian security officials fanned out across their country and raided some 500 homes and several office buildings owned or rented by members of the Bahai faith, confiscating material and arresting dozens of people. This was hardly the first time that Bahais, Iran's largest religious minority, felt the sting of attention from the Shiite Muslim government. As in the past, the United States condemned the action. But what happened Sept. 29 was remarkable because it brought to an abrupt end an elaborate act of communal self-preservation. The materials confiscated were neither political nor religious, and the people arrested were not fighters or organizers. They were lecturers in subjects like accounting and dentistry; the materials seized were textbooks and laboratory equipment... FULL TEXT

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* U.S. rights group backs jailed Iran cleric

DUBAI, Oct 27 (Reuters) - A U.S. human rights group expressed support for a Shi'ite Moslem cleric jailed in Iran after he published articles supporting women's rights. The New York-based Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, in a statement received by Reuters on Tuesday, urged lawyers to write on behalf of Mohsen Saeidzadeh to Iranian head of judiciary Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi and Iran's envoy to the United Nations ... FULL TEXT

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* Baha'is: Iran's crimes at home

Washington Post editorial, Sunday, October 25, 1998 - SINCE THE election of President Khatami more than a year ago, Iran watchers have been hoping for signs of new tolerance in that nation's policies. But if treatment of the most vulnerable minority is any indication, there is little reason to cheer Iran's recent record. Members of the Baha'i faith, a religion that claims about 6 million adherents worldwide and 300,000 in Iran, have been facing increasingly vicious persecution... FULL TEXT

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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.''... FULL TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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... FULL TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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, and access to all jobs ... FULL TEXT

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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 TEXT

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