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* Iran's ban on Salam newspaper deals
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* Media group denounces closure of Iranian newspaper
* Student council say six still missing after unrest
* Liberal opposition movemment protests Iran arrests
* Hardline court shuts Salam daily
* Mystery murders' out to embarrass Iran -judiciary
* Senators condemn Iranian crackdown
* U.S.-funded radio denies detained journalist worked
for it
* Reformist student leader arrested in Iran
* Students tell of shootings, savage beatings in provinces
* Newspaper editor freed on bail
* Iran threatens revolutionary court trials for "incitement"
* MPs denounce intelligence ministry
* Revolutionary Guards threaten further press crackdown
* Two more reporters arrested
* Soroush attacked, observers voice concern
* Senior cleric attacked in central Iran
* Newspaper reports another death from unrest
* Iran's supreme leader denies political split
* Iran students say 19 "seriously wounded" in
unrest
* Iran MPs denounce intelligence ministry
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Friday
August 6, 1999
* "The Risk Has Increased Substantially"
August 3, (Frankfurt/Main Frankfurter Rundschau) - The forbidden Iranian
People's Party advocates democracy and freedom of speech. Its members see
themselves subject to mass persecution by the government since the student
unrest in Tehran. Frankfurter Rundschau staff member Andrea Claudia Hoffman
spoke with Mehran Adib (Brussels), chairman of the European branch of Hesb-e
Mellat-e [Iranian People's Party] ... FULL
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Thursday
August 5, 1999
* Iran's ban on Salam newspaper deals new blow to reformers
TEHRAN, Aug 5 (AFP) - A five-year ban slapped on Iran's popular reformist
Salam newspaper, whose initial closure sparked days of bloody riots, has
dealt another blow to President Mohammad Khatami's reform agenda ahead
of key elections next year. "Goodbye Salam!" was the headline
Kar-O-Kargar, a workers' newspaper hich like the rest of the press reported
without comment Wednesday's decision by the hardline Special Court for
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* Media group denounces closure of Iranian newspaper
PARIS, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Media watchdog Reporters Sans Frontiers on
Thursday denounced the closure of a leading Iranian pro-reform newspaper,
saying the move undermined Tehran's pledge to improve human rights. ``The
Special Court for Clergy has no competence to judge a press offence,''
RSF said in a letter sent to Iran President Mohammad Khatami ... FULL
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* Student council say six still missing after unrest
TEHRAN, Aug 5 (AFP) - An Iranian student body said on Thursday that
six students were still missing after protesters in Tehran were attacked
by security forces and Islamic vigilantes last month. The Elected Council
of Student Protesters issued a statement saying the fate and well-being
of six students was still unclear and called for help from the public,
press reports said Thursday ... FULL
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* Liberal opposition movemment protests Iran arrests
TEHRAN, Aug 5 (AFP) - An Iranian liberal opposition movement has denounced
the "campaign of terror" it says is being waged against students
in Iran after the wave of unrest that shook the country last month. The
Iran Freedom Movement (IFM) -- which is banned but tolerated by the authorities
-- said in an open letter to reformist President Mohammad Khatami, that
more than 1,500 students have been arrested in Tehran and elsewhere since
the unrest ... FULL
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Wednesday
August 4, 1999
* Hardline court shuts Salam daily
TEHRAN, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Iran's hardline clerical court has banned
the country's leading pro-reform newspaper for five years and barred its
publisher from press activities, the official IRNA news agency said on
Wednesday. It said the court ordered a ban on the daily Salam for printing
secret documents, while publisher and managing editor Mohammad Mousavi-Khoeiniha,
a powerful leftist cleric, was suspended from journalism for three years
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* Mystery murders' out to embarrass Iran -judiciary
TEHRAN, Aug 4 (Reuters) - A series of murders of dissidents in Iran
late last year were the work of a small group in the intelligence ministry
which sought to destabilise the Islamic republic and embarrass it in the
eyes of the world, judiciary officials said on Wednesday. In a statement
on months of investigation into the mystery killings of at least four dissidents,
the armed forces judicial organisation said the plot was limited to a handful
of agents inside the intelligence ministry, including a deputy minister,
operating without official sanction or authorisation ... FULL
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* Senators condemn Iranian crackdown
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Several senators sought today to register congressional
displeasure with Iran's crackdown on student protesters and democracy advocates.
``This is an untenable situation and should be loudly and categorically
condemned by all free nations of the world,'' said Sen. Sam Brownback,
R-Kan ...FULL
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* U.S.-funded radio denies detained Iranian journalist worked for
it
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - A U.S.-funded radio network denied
Tuesday that an Iranian woman arrested in Tehran was employed by the station.
Iran 's hard-line Kayhan newspaper reported Tuesday that the detained woman,
Camellia Entekhabifard, had worked for Radio Free Europe, a radio station
that Iran considers hostile to its establishment ... FULL
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Tuesday
August 3, 1999
* Reformist student leader arrested in Iran
TEHRAN, Aug 3 (Reuters) - A leader of Iran's biggest student group has
been arrested in connection with last month's social unrest in the Islamic
republic, newspapers reported on Tuesday. Ali Tavakoli, a member of the
central council of the Office to Consolidate Unity (OCU), was detained
on Monday after being summoned to a revolutionary tribunal for questioning
about his role in student demonstrations which led to riots in mid-July
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* Students tell of shootings, savage beatings in provinces
TEHRAN, Aug 3 (AFP) - Iranian students were shot and savagely beaten
in Tabriz during last month's unrest, a student group said in Tuesday's
press in the first detailed account of the disturbances in the northwestern
city ... FULL
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* Newspaper editor freed on bail
TEHRAN, Aug 3 (AFP) - The editor of the pro-reform Iranian newspaper
whose closure sparked days of bloody riots was freed on bail by a hardline
religious court on Tuesday, the official IRNA news agency said. Abbas Abdi,
summoned on charges his Salam paper had insulted the clergy and the Iranian
people, was released on the condition he pay some 200 million rials (65,000
dollars) ... FULL
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* Iran threatens revolutionary court trials for "incitement"
New York, August 3, 1999 (Human Rights Watch) -- "When governments
launch campaigns against 'incitement,' freedom of expression is often the
first casualty," said Hanny Megally, executive director of Human Rights
Watch's Middle East and North Africa division. "The Iranian judiciary
has been in the forefront of the campaign to stamp out dissent and Iran's
Revolutionary Courts are notorious for their disregard of basic fair trial
standards." ... FULL
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* MPs denounce intelligence ministry
TEHRAN, July 29 (AFP) - Iranian MPs condemned the intelligence ministry
Thursday for its "unconstitutional" treatment of those arrested
over the Tehran riots amid a tough propaganda campaign against pro-democracy
activists. "The ministry's statements about the university protests
and the events that followed are obviously unconstitutional and violate
the rights of those arrested," current and former MPs said in a letter
published Thursday ... FULL
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Monday
August 2, 1999
* Revolutionary Guards threaten further press crackdown
TEHRAN, Aug 1 (AFP) - The head of Iran's Revolutionary Guards (IRGC)
vowed to take action against newspapers that insult the elite corps amid
a mounting crackdown on the nation's moderate press, reports said Sunday.
Brigadier General Rahim Safavi said the political turmoil created by last
month's bloody riots in Tehran was a bid to weaken the Guards and hinted
at even stricter controls on newspapers ... FULL
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* Two more reporters arrested
Teheran (dpa) - Two more Iranian reporters have been arrested, one of
them a young woman from a former liberal daily and the other from a radical
weekly, the daily Tehran Times reported Sunday. Camellia Entekhabi-Far,
a 26-year-old journalist who used to work for the reformist daily Zan (Woman),
was arrested late last month after she had returned from the United States,
the daily said ... FULL
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* Soroush attacked, observers voice concern
August 2, TEHRAN (Tehran Times) -- Observers here voiced concern over
the attack on an intellectual, Abdol-Karim Soroush on Thursday in Mashhad,
eastern Iran. According to a report, appeared in Persian daily Neshat Soroush
was attacked after addressing a meeting of supporters in a private home
in Mashhad ... FULL
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* Senior cleric attacked in central Iran
TEHRAN, July 31 (Reuters) - A man said to be mentally unstable attacked
a senior cleric who was leading weekly Moslem prayers in the central Iranian
city of Isfahan, newspapers reported on Saturday. The unidentified assailant
charged at the cleric, Ali Qazi-Asgar, from a line of worshippers during
prayers, kicking him and knocking off his turban, the newspapers said.
The 28-year-old man was arrested by guards at the prayers ... FULL
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* Newspaper reports another death from unrest
TEHRAN, Aug 1 (Reuters) - A man wounded by gunfire during six days of
Iranian social unrest in July has died in hospital, a newspaper reported
on Sunday. Behrooz Faraj-zadeh, a 53-year-old labourer, was the second
man in as many days reported by the daily Khordad to have died in hospital
from a gunshot wound ... FULL
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