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* CPJ protests campaign against media
* Amir-Entezam & Tabarzadi's joint statement
* Call for Solidarity With the Student Movement in Iran
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* Three opposition leaders detained
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* Iran says unrest over; big rally backs state
* Protesters dragged away
* Five Iranian writers win awards
* Support the protest movement in Iran
* Khamenei tells militia to crush unrest
* Security official says Iran could execute rioters
* Human rights group warns of excutions
* Student demands
* Police fire in air amid street battles
* Iran protesters defy government ban
* U.S. supports peaceful protests in Iran
* Israel says Iran protests could bring new openness
* Pressure mounts on Iran's supreme leader
* Students prepare for wider protests
* Iran sacks police officials after protests
* Iran papers to strike to protest at Salam closure
* Iran ministry drops charges against newspaper
* Leading Iranian dissident dies
* Salam daily banned as conservatives move to curb press
* Iranian Jew held for spying is well, mother says
* Scandal rocks secret service
* Reformist press accuses MPs of preparing clampdown
* Iran revives case of missing diplomats,17 years on
* Jackson seeks Iran visit to press for Jews release
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Friday
July 16, 1999
* CPJ protests campaign against media
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a non-governmental organization
of journalists devoted to upholding press freedom worldwide, is writing
to express its deep concern about the ongoing campaign to stifle the independent
Iranian press. Since January 1998, twelve newspapers have been closed for
printing material that members of the ruling elite deemed unacceptable,
and many journalists have been arrested and prosecuted for their reporting
on a variety of sensitive political topics ... FULL
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* Amir-Entezam & Tabarzadi's joint statement
From behind prison bars, we have regretfully and painfully learned about
the savage attack on students at the dormitories by Ansare-Hezbollah and
the agents of dictatorship who are clothed in security uniforms ... FULL TEXT
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* Call for Solidarity With the Student Movement in Iran
We, exiled and immigrant Iranians, are witnessing your battle for establishing
freedom in our dear homeland. We sense how your day of sacrifice on July
8th, 1999, [referring to the beginning of the recent demonstrations in
Iran] has now bridged your struggle with that of your parents' on that
landmark day of December 7, 1953 [referring to the student movement under
the Shah's regime]. Although the two struggles are separated by decades,
are they united on the same path [for freedom] ... FULL
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Thursday
July 15, 1999
* Three opposition leaders detained in Iran: opposition group
BRUSSELS, July 14 (AFP) - At least three Iranian opposition leaders
were arrested at their homes in Iran early Wednesday, a representative
of the Brussels-based opposition National Party told AFP. "Several
leaders of the opposition were arrested last night by the secret police
in their homes," Mehran Adib said. He identified them as People's
Party members Bahran Namazi, Mehran Mir Abdol Baghi and Rosrow Seyf. Adib
said police searched their homes and seized books, letters and newspapers.
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* Iran says unrest over; big rally backs state
TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) - Iran said Wednesday its security forces had
contained in a crisis caused by some the worst unrest since the 1979 revolution,
hours after tens of thousands of people rallied in support of the Islamic
government. ``After setting up a crisis headquarters ... and following
the crisis minute by minute, and thanks to the national resolve which has
developed, the crisis has been brought under control,'' said Interior Minister
Abdolvahed Mousavi-Lari ... FULL
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* Protesters dragged away
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Pro-democracy student protesters
were tied hand-and-foot and dragged from a huge rally called by Iranian
hard-liners, the Neshat daily reported today. The newspaper quoted Ali
Afshari, a leader of weeklong pro-democracy demonstrations, as saying that
the whereabouts of several of his fellow students were not known, the newspaper
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* Five Iranian writers win awards
New York, July 14, 1999 (Human Rights Watch) -- Of the thirty-two grant
recipients of this year's Hellman/Hammett grants, five hail from Iran.
They are Hamid-Reza Jalei-Pour, Masahallah Shamss-Ol-Vaezin, Seyeed Ebrahim
Nabvi, Akbar Ganji and Hojatolesam Mohssen Saeidzadeh. The grant program
began in 1989 when the estates of American authors Lillian Hellman and
Dashiel Hammett asked Human Rights Watch to design a program for writers
in financial need as a result of expressing their views ... FULL TEXT
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* Support the protest movement in Iran
15 July (Co-ordinating Committee of workers Left Unity) - The students
protests of the last few days are undoubtedly the most significant demonstrations
against Iran's Islamic Republic in the last eighteen years. They are the
manifestation of a continued dissatisfaction with the rule of a corrupt
clergy , a rejection of the interference of religion in very aspect of
private and public life , a rejection of dictatorship ... FULL
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Wednesday
July 14, 1999
* Khamenei tells militia to crush unrest
TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) - Iran's supreme leader has given free reign
to the Islamic youth militia Basij to crush the violent rioting which followed
a week of pro-democracy student unrest. ``My Basij children must reserve
the necessary readiness and be present at any scene they are needed to
intimidate and crush the base enemies,'' Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in
a message to the nation late Tuesday ... FULL
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* Security official says Iran could execute rioters
TEHRAN, July 14 (Reuters) - A senior Iranian official cautioned on Wednesday
that some of those behind the recent violent disturbances in Tehran could
be executed. ``Those involved in the last days' riots, destruction of public
property and attacks against the system will be tried and punished as moharaeb
(those fighting God) and mofsed (those spreading corruption),'' said Hassan
Rowhani, secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, Iran's top
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* Human rights group warns of excutions
July 14, (Iranian Human Rights Working Group) - Supreme Leader of the
Islamic Republic of Iran, in a statement issued at early hours of Wednesday
14th July (local time), threatened all those who take part in these demonstrations
to the death penalty on charges of "fighting God" and "corruption
on earth". This means that all those who have already been arrested
are in danger of losing their lives on these bogus charges. We appeal to
all human rights groups and international bodies to help prevent perpetration
of this human tragedy ... FULL
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Tuesday
July 13, 1999
* Student demands
DEMANDS OF THE UNITED STUDENT FRONT, IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE SPONTANEOUS
POLITICAL MOVEMENT OF TEHRAN UNIVERSTIY STUDENTS
... Our demands include:
1. Freedom of all political prisoners, and especially those students
who have been arrested by the special University security forces at the
dormitories. The freedom of Tabarzadi [one of the student leaders], Kadivar
[a religious cleric, critical of regime's policies] and Abbas Amir Entezam
[the longest held political prisoner since 1979] ... FULL
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* Police fire in air amid street battles
July 13, TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian plain-clothes security forces shot
into the air Tuesday to disperse angry pro-democracy protesters in central
Tehran as running street battles spread. Hundreds of protesters tried to
storm the heavy iron gates of the interior ministry, which controls the
police, as the riots moved away from Tehran University, scene of six days
of protests by students against a police and Islamic vigilante attack during
a peaceful rally last week ... FULL
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* Iran protesters defy government ban
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- In a flashback to the revolution
that installed Iran's Islamic government 20 years ago, baton-wielding police
fired tear gas to disperse 10,000 protesters on the streets of Tehran today,
the sixth day of protests against hard-liners who have thwarted reform
efforts. Demonstrators quickly regrouped in nearby streets where they burned
buses and hurled abuse at hard-line clerics ... FULL
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* U.S. supports peaceful protests in Iran
WASHINGTON, July 12 (Reuters) - The United States on Monday took sides
with peaceful Iranian student demonstrators against what it called repression
by police and hardline vigilante groups. The U.S. State Department also
urged the Iranian government to protect the demonstrators and to respect
international human rights standards, including the rights to freedom of
expression, association and assembly ... FULL
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* Israel says Iran protests could bring new openness
JERUSALEM, July 12 (Reuters) - Israeli Foreign Minister David Levy said
on Monday student protests in Iran could signal an era of new openness
in the Islamic Republic. ``The day will come -- and it is not far off --
that we will see a different atmosphere emerging from Iran,'' Levy told
reporters when asked about five days of pro-democracy student protests
in Tehran and other Iranian cities ... FULL
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Monday
July 12, 1999
* Pressure mounts on Iran's supreme leader
TEHRAN, July 11 (Reuters) - Pressure mounted on Sunday on Iran's supreme
leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to step in and end four days of protest
rallies touched off by an attack on pro-democracy students by police and
hardline vigilantes. Thousands of angry students at Tehran University's
main dormitory complex called on Khamenei -- who under Iran's Islamic system
has final say in all matters of state -- to guarantee personally the arrest
and prosecution of those responsible for the assault, abetted by elements
of the police, on Thursday night and early Friday morning ... FULL
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* Students prepare for wider protests
TEHRAN, July 11 (Reuters) - Thousands of angry Iranian students prepared
on Sunday to take their protest to the streets of Tehran, turning up the
heat on political and religious leaders. ``Either Islam and the law, or
another revolution,'' chanted the students. Their demands included the
execution of the police chief, who reports to Iran's dominant clergy ...
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* Iran sacks police officials after protests
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran said Sunday it had sacked two senior police
officers for ordering a bloody crackdown against pro-democracy students
which sparked widespread protests against political and religious leaders.
In a statement read on state media, the Supreme National Security Council
said the sacked officers, a brigadier general and his aide, would also
be prosecuted over raids on student dormitories late Thursday ... FULL
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* Iran papers to strike to protest at Salam closure
TEHRAN, July 11 (Reuters) - Iranian journalists plan to stage a one-day
strike on Tuesday to protest against the closure of the pro-reform Salam
newspaper, newspapers reported on Sunday. ``We will lay down our pens on
Tuesday...and invite our colleagues throughout the country to do likewise,''
said the statement signed by 583 journalists and carried by leading reformist
newspapers ... FULL
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