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Sept 14-18, 1998 / Shahrivar 23-27, 1377
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* Senior Iran cleric blasts moderate newspapers
* Liberal Iranian newspaper
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* Tous editor heads home to jail
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* UN urged to prevent
more killings as Taliban offensive continues
* Iranian dissident denied bail
* Bio of Iranian reporter killed
in Afghanistan
* U.S. senator, others try to help Iranian couple
* Human Rights Watch condemns INS detention practices
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* Tous editor heads home to jail
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- The managing director of Iran's only
independent daily newspaper is flying home Saturday to be arrested. Mohammad
Mohsen Sazgara is not sure what the charge is. He doesn't know what punishment
he faces, where he will be jailed, or when he'll be able to speak publicly
again. ``I'm a citizen of Iran, first of all. Second, my friends are
in jail,'' Sazgara, 43, said Friday in an interview with The Associated
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* Senior Iran cleric blasts moderate newspapers
TEHRAN, Sept 18 (Reuters) - A senior conservative Iranian cleric on
Friday blasted moderate newspapers, saying they were part of a ``cultural
plot'' to overthrow the Islamic republic. ``These (newspapers) want to
mislead the people. This is a cultural plot to overthrow our system,''
Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati said in his prayer sermon at Tehran University...
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* Liberal Iranian newspaper closed
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran closed a liberal Iranian newspaper Wednesday
for publishing articles detrimental ``to the country's national interests
and security,'' the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported... FULL
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* UN urged to prevent more killings
as Taliban offensive continues
Sept 14, 1998 - Human Rights Watch today warned that the Taliban's current
military offensive in the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan could
result in the torture and deaths of many more ethnic Hazaras, a Shi'ite
minority whom the Taliban has targeted in the past. Aid workers in Pakistan
say that thousands of Hazaras were killed when the Taliban took the northern
city of Mazar-e Sharif last month. Human Rights Watch called on the United
Nations Security Council, which has already expressed deep concern about
the human rights situation in Afghanistan, to launch a formal investigation
into the killings in Mazar-e Sharif, with the aim of setting up a tribunal
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* Bio of Iranian reporter killed in Afghanistan
TEHRAN, Sept 11, (IRNA)- the islamic republic news agency assigned Mahmoud
Saremi to head the irna bureau in afghanistan in 1995 from where he gave
a full objective coverage of the civil war until saturday august 8 when
he was martyred by taliban advancing insurgents at his office in mazar-i-sharif...
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* Human Rights Watch condemns detention practices
of INS urges end to use of local jails to hold immigrants
(Washington, D.C., September 9, 1998) -- In a
report released today, Human Rights Watch charges that the U.S. Immigration
and Naturalization Service (INS) is now holding more than half of its detainees
in jails where they are subjected to punitive treatment and may be mixed
with criminal inmates.
With its own detention facilities overwhelmed,
the INS is placing its administrative detainees in jails, even though they
are not serving criminal sentences. Those detained include asylum seekers,
undocumented individuals picked up by the INS on the street or during workplace
raids, and individuals with previous convictions who are now awaiting deportation...
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* U.S. senator, others try to help Iranian
couple remain in U.S. with disabled son
Farzad Aleaziz and Roya Ahmade might face deportation
to Iran, where 13-year-old Alireza couldn't get the care he needs
The Oregonian, Portland, Oregon, Tuesday, August
25 1998 -- Guests gather. Parents smile. Cameras click. The senator shakes
hands.
And Alireza Aleaziz, 13, severely disabled since
birth, stares straight ahead from his wheelchair at Providence Child Center,
presumably unaware that the bustle surrounding him brings together the
powerful forces working in his favor: U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith, R-Ore., representatives
of the Iranian-American community and members of the Providence staff.
Smith and others helping the boy's parents, Farzad
Aleaziz and Roya Ahmadi, met Monday at the Northeast Portland nursing facility
to vow diligence in their effort to persuade the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization
Service to allow the family, whose visas have expired, to stay legally
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* Iranian dissident denied bail
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- A former deputy prime minister and
long-time political prisoner is being detained without bail or access to
his lawyers, an Iranian newspaper and a human rights group say. Abbas Amir-Entezam
was arrested Tuesday, apparently on defamation charges, according to Iran's
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