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* Three opposition leaders detained in Iran
* 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 TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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 said ... FULL TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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 security body ... FULL TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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 ... FULL TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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 TEXT

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Open Letter from Iranian activists in Iran

May 10, 1999, (Anout Iran) - Dear Compatriots: One hundred seventy bitter days have passed since the silencing of two shining stars of freedom and liberty of the Iranian nation. In the meantime, the culprits are still free, the wheels of justice are still immobile, and the nation is still waiting [for answers]! ... FULL TEXT

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Iran Country Report

As of December 31, 1998 (Committee to Protect Journalists) - Since President Muhammad Khatemi took office in August 1997, Iran's press has benefited from his agenda of social and political reforms. Newspapers are now tackling political subjects that would have been unthinkable only a year earlier. But almost as quickly as journalists realized their new freedoms, the press found itself the target of a relentless attacks from hard-line supporters of Iran's spiritual guide Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ... FULL TEXT

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Missing: Pirouz Davani

A special web page has been created for Pirouz Davani, a political activist who left his home in Tehran on the 25th of August 1998 and has not been heard from since. On the 27th of August foreign radio stations quoted reports that he had been arrested ... GO TO WEB SITE

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Stoning

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