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* Human rights group calls for investigation
* Iran Leaders Assaulted by Militants
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* Thousands of civilians killed by Taleban
* Montazeri's daughter slams husband's jailing
* Press group asks France to press Iran on reporter
* Majlis creates new press
restrictions
* PEN calls for Sa'idzadeh's
immediate release
* Action alert issued on
kidnapping of Saremi
* PEN calls for the immediate
release of Mr. Zaeri
* U.S. eases immigration
rules
* MKO accuses Tehran of
killing Kurdish dissident in Iraq
* Freedom from religious persecution
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* Human rights group calls for investigation
Iranian Human Rights Working Group (IHRWG) -- Noting the recent emphasis
by the authorities of the Islamic Republic on the rule of law and building
a civil society, the Iranian Human Rights Working Group (IHRWG) demands
from the current administration in Iran... to launch a full investigation
into the 1988 mass execution of political prisoners; to provide the public
with the number and identity of the victims; and to reveal the burial sight
of the victims ... FULL
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* Iran Leaders Assaulted by Militants
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Hard-line militants assaulted an Iranian deputy
president and the culture minister on Friday as they left a prayer service
in central Tehran, witnesses said. About 80 militants chanting ``Death
to liberals!'' scuffled with the two, both moderates, as they left Tehran
University separately after Friday prayers, said the witnesses, who spoke
on condition of anonymity... FULL
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* Afghanistan: Thousands of civilians killed
following Taleban takeover of Mazar-e Sharif
Amnesty International -- Taleban guards
deliberately and systematically killed thousands of ethnic Hazara civilians
during the first three days following their military takeover of Mazar-e
Sharif on 8 August 1998, according to new information received by Amnesty
International. Since their arrival in Mazar-e Sharif, the Taleban have
sealed the area to foreign media and independent observers. Amnesty International's
information is based on testimonies from eyewitnesses and surviving members
of the victims' families... FULL
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* Montazeri's daughter slams husband's jailing
TEHRAN, Sept 1 (Reuters) - A daughter of Iran's top dissident cleric
has appealed for the release of her husband, who she said was jailed to
pressure her father, a newspaper reported on Tuesday. The daily Tous quoted
Ashraf Montazeri, Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri's daughter as saying
in an open letter that her husband Hadi Hashemi, also a Shi'ite Moslem
cleric, has been incarcerated for three months without any formal charges... FULL
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* Press group asks France to press Iran on reporter
PARIS, Aug 21 (Reuters) - A press watchdog group asked France on Friday
to press Tehran on the behalf of an Iranian journalist, Mohammad Firouzi,
who was condemned to death in January after being convicted of adultery
and spying. The plea by the Paris-based Reporters sans Frontieres (Reporters
without Borders) came as French Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine arrived
in Tehran for a weekend visit... FULL
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* Majlis creates new press restrictions
TEHRAN (Hamshahri) - The Majlis has passed a law with ambiguous terms
which would make it easy to shut down publications which publish "offensive"
images or articles that defend women's rights based on "un-Islamic"
principles... FULL
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* PEN calls for Sa'idzadeh's immediate release
We write to you today about our colleague, prominent writer and legal
scholar, Hojatoleslam Mohsen Sa'idzadeh who was arrested on June 30, 1998,
and has remained in jail ever since. We believe that his incarceration
is linked to his reformist views and writings in general, and his views
pertaining to women's rights in particular... FULL TEXT
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* Action alert issued on kidnapping of Saremi
LONODN, aug. 12, irna - concern about the kidnapping
of irna's bureau chief in afghanistan, mahmoud saremi, by taliban militia
was being put on the action alert network wednesday at the request of the
new york-based committee to protect journalists (cpj). it called for appeals
to be made to taliban leader mullah omar to ensure that the iranian journalist
is not mistreated and to be immediately released... FULL TEXT
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* PEN calls for the immediate release of Mr.
Zaeri
As an international fellowship of writers dedicated
to defending freedom of expression both in the United States and abroad,
we write to express our concern about the arrest and imprisonment of Mohammad-Reza
Zaeri, publisher of the weekly, Khaneh, on July 29, 1998. Accused of "insulting
Islam, the Shiite clergy and the late Ayatollah Khomeini", as well
as publishing photographs of an unveiled woman playing football, Mr. Zaeri
faces a two-year prison term. The charges essentially amount to the July
15, 1998 publication of an anonymous letter criticizing the death edict
against the author Salman Rushdie... FULL
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* U.S. eases immigration rules to boost `Wrestling
Diplomacy' with Iran
WASHINGTON (Washington Post) - After having warmly
welcomed a U.S. wrestling team to Tehran, Iranians were incensed when a
dozen of their own wrestlers landed in Chicago last April only to be promptly
fingerprinted and photographed at the airport by immigration officers.
In a little-noticed regulation published July 17 in the Federal Register,
Attorney General Janet Reno, who oversees immigration officials, allowed
exemptions for "certain nonimmigrants" from four countries [including
Iran] "when such action is deemed to be in the interest of foreign
policy or national security."... FULL
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* MKO accuses Tehran of killing Kurdish dissident
in Iraq
NICOSIA, Aug 6 (AFP) - Agents sent by Tehran have
killed a member of the Iranian Kurdish opposition at a base in northern
Iraq, Iran's biggest armed opposition faction, the People's Mujahedeen,
said Thursday. Mohammed Heidari of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran
(KDPI) was gunned down late last Friday at a party base in Iraq and died
the following day, the People's Mujahedeen said in a statement received
here ... FULL
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* Freedom from religious persecution
NEW YORK (New York Times) - On July 21 Iran hanged
a citizen who follows the small faith of Bahai, on the charge of trying
to convert a man who follows the huge faith of Islam. Fifteen other Iranian
Bahais have been sentenced for the same crime; seven are scheduled for
hanging. The execution got four paragraphs in The New York Times; other
papers gave zero. The State Department condemned the execution. But next
to the story of the hanging was another, continued from the front page.
Headline: "Senate Drops Bill Punishing Lands That Persecute Religion."...
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