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* PEN asks for release of Tous reporters
* Sarkuhi says he wants to return home
* Stricter press law in the works?
* Interior minister supports diverse views
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* PEN asks for release of Tous reporters
Our letter to you today comes with a grave sense of urgency as we are
disturbed by reports that that the daily newspaper Tous was banned on September
16, 1998, on charges that it published articles in conflict with Iran's
national interests and security. We are further perturbed to learn of the
arrest and detention of Mahmoud Shamsolvaezin, chief editor of the newspaper,
and Hamid Reza Jalaipur, director of publishing of Tous... FULL TEXT
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* Sarkuhi says he wants to return home
LONDON, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Exiled Iranian dissident writer Faraj Sarkuhi,
who was freed from jail in January after serving a 12-month sentence for
``propaganda'' offences, on Wednesday said he wanted to return home. Sarkuhi,
who said he had been badly beaten and threatened three times with execution
while in the Iranian prison, was granted the right to work for a year when
he arrived in Frankfurt from Iran in May... FULL
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* Stricter press law in the works?
TEHRAN (Hamshahri) - Conservative members of the Majlis are considering
an amendment to the press law giving prosecutors greater power to shut
down liberal papers ... FULL
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* Interior minister supports diverse views
TEHRAN (Hamshahri) - "Suppressing different point of view is not
in the interest of the country," Interior Minister Mousavi Lari said
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* IRNA director, editor released
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - The deputy director and an
editor of Iran's official news agency were set free on Wednesday, and the
agency said a complaint against them apparently had been withdrawn...
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* IRNA staff calls for detained colleagues'
release
TEHRAN, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Senior editors and
reporters at Iran's official IRNA news agency on Wednesday called for the
immediate and unconditional release of two arrested colleagues. Iranian
authorities on Tuesday detained IRNA's Deputy Managing Director Mohammad
Reza Sadeq and Alireza Khosravi, a chief editor, over a report on a failed
assassination attempt on the head of a powerful economic foundation, the
agency reported... FULL
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* Iranian MPs want action against liberal media
TEHRAN, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Two-thirds of deputies
in Iran's parliament on Wednesday called for journalists who write against
Islamic principles to be put on trial for threatening national security.
The official Iranian news agency IRNA said 180 of the 270 deputies, in
a letter read out in parliament, backed supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's
call for action against newspapers he accused of ``abusing freedom of speech.''
``The deputies stressed in their letter that those who write against the
principles of Islam should be confronted as those working against the security
of the country,'' IRNA reported... FULL
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* Rushdie Backers ``Cautiously Optimistic''
Over Iran
LONDON (Reuters) - British supporters of Salman
Rushdie, the author with a $2.5 million bounty on his head, Wednesday reacted
cautiously to Iranian President Mohammad Khatami's statement that the Rushdie
affair was ``completely finished.'' The International Rushdie Defense Committee,
joined by Rushdie himself, met British Foreign Office officials earlier
Wednesday to discuss the apparent easing of Iran's position... FULL
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* Iranian opposition exiles protest near U.N.
NEW YORK, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Thousands of Iranian
exiles, chanting slogans and clad in bright yellow T-shirts, demonstrated
outside the United Nations on Monday as President Mohammad Khatami addressed
the U.N. General Assembly. Supporters of the National Council of Resistance
of Iran waved the red, white and green Iranian flag and carried huge orange
banners declaring that since Khatami came to power one year ago, there
had been 250 executions, seven public stonings and 28 assassinations ...
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