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* IHRWG protests death sentences for detained students
* Khatami OKs peaceful reform
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* Students go back to school after bloody summer
* Britain to continue Rushdie protection
* Conservative Iran body seen keeping grip on vote
* Austrian president voices EU concern over human rights
* Iran needs nobody's permission to punish Jewish "spies"
* Khatami seeks pardon for Iranians sentenced to die
* Reformist Iranian daily answers anti-Islam charges
* Report says student unrest began spontaneously
* Official says 13 Jews are innocent before law
* Fresh paint, plaster greets Iran's angry students
* Report says student unrest began spontaneously
* Amnesty calls for judicial reform
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Thursday
September 23, 1999
* International campaign in defence of Iranian students
The International campaign in defence of Iranian students was initiated
by the Co-ordinating Committee of Workers' Left Unity and the editorial
board of iran bulletin. It has had the support over 450 academics, journalists,
professionals,members of parliament, trade unionists, students, individuals,
and over 50 organisations from across the world. Signatories to the campaigns
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* IHRWG protests death sentences for detained students
PRESS RELEASE, September 22, 1999
Iranian Human Rights Working Group (IHRWG)
It is with deep regret to hear that the Islamic Republic's head of The
Revolutionary Courts has announced the issuance of death sentences for
four students arrested in the July unrest in Tehran University... We are
calling for the immediate commutation of the death sentences that have
apparently been issued and approved by the Supreme Court, and the urgent
release of the names of the four sentenced and the rest who have been arrested
in relation to the July unrest ... FULL
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* Khatami OKs peaceful reform
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - In another apparent nod of encouragement for peaceful
reforms, Iran's president opened a vast military parade Wednesday by declaring
the armed forces would never be used to suppress restrained domestic dissent.
``Day by day our military is getting stronger, but they are not going to
be used to crack down on the people and they will only be deployed against
the enemies of the country,'' President Mohammed Khatami said before an
annual display of Iran's military power, including the public unveiling
of the mobile Zelzal missile that some experts believe is capable of reaching
most points in the Middle East ... FULL
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Wednesday
September 22, 1999
* Conservatives tighten proposed press law
TEHRAN (Reuters) - A conservative parliamentary committee has proposed
new restrictions on Iran's press, a main battleground between reformers
around President Mohammad Khatami and hard-line rivals, newspapers reported
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* Students go back to school after bloody summer
TEHRAN, Sept 22 (AFP) - Some two million Iranian students return Thursday
to universities which have been freshly refurbished after an outpouring
of violence in July left dormitories trashed and at least three people
dead. On the same day, 19 million schoolchildren return to class in this
country where more 20 percent of the population are aged under 20 ... FULL TEXT
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* Britain to continue Rushdie protection despite renewed Iran ties
LONDON, Sept 22 (AFP) - Britain said Wednesday it would continue its
protection of author Salman Rushdie -- condemnmed to death a decade ago
in a fatwa from Iran's then spiritual leader -- despite improved diplomatic
links with Tehran ... FULL
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Tuesday
September 21, 1999
* Iran needs nobody's permission to punish Jewish "spies":
Khamenei
TEHRAN, Sept 21 (AFP) - Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
on Tuesday told visiting Austrian President Thomas Klestil his country
"asks nobody's permission to punish the spies" facing death for
allegedly working for Israel ... FULL
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* Austrian president voices EU concern over human rights in Iran
TEHRAN, Sept 21 (AFP) - Austrian President Thomas Klestil expressed
the EU's "dismay and preoccupation over the human rights situation"
here Tuesday but said his country wanted to maintain ties, particularly
economic ones, with Iran ... FULL
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* Conservative Iran body seen keeping grip on vote
TEHRAN, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Iran's conservative Council of Guardians
has reasserted its right to bar election candidates from the ballot at
will, a move seen as damaging to reformers' prospects in upcoming parliamentary
contests ... FULL
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Monday
September 20, 1999
* Khatami seeks pardon for Iranians sentenced to die
TEHRAN, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami hoped
that supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would pardon four people sentenced
to death over pro-democracy unrest, an official was quoted as saying on
Sunday. ``Mr Khatami said recently that he hoped (those sentenced to death)
would benefit from the leader's pardon,'' newspapers quoted his office
secretary Mohammad Ali Abtahi as saying ... FULL
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* Reformist Iranian daily answers anti-Islam charges
TEHRAN, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Iran's leading pro-reform newspaper, already
under suspension, went on trial on Monday on charges of insulting Islamic
values and spreading propaganda against the state ``Jail me for five years,
but abide by the law,'' publisher Latif Safari told the court ... FULL TEXT
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* Report says student unrest began spontaneously
TEHRAN, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Iran's Intelligence Ministry said on Monday
a pro-democracy student protest which escalated into major unrest in June
had started as a largely spontaneous event, state radio reported. It quoted
a statement by the ministry, which is in charge of internal security, as
also saying its agents had arrested 20 hardline vigilantes whom it accused
of provoking violence by attacking student protesters at a university dormitory
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* Official says 13 Jews are innocent before law
TEHRAN, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Some of the 13 Iranian Jews held in Iran
on espionage charges have confessed but all are considered innocent until
found guilty by a court of law, a top judiciary official was quoted on
Monday as saying. Hadi Marvi, a mid-ranking Shi'ite Moslem cleric and the
new deputy head of the judiciary, told the Iran News that Islamic law required
the presumption of innocence for all accused ... FULL
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* Fresh paint, plaster greets Iran's angry students
TEHRAN, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Students at Tehran University, the epicentre
of pro-democracy unrest in July, trickle back to campus this week where
fresh paint on the bloodied hostel walls may not be enough to erase their
anger or defuse reform demands ... FULL
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* Report says student unrest began spontaneously
TEHRAN, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Iran's Intelligence Ministry said on Monday
a pro-democracy student protest which escalated into major unrest in June
had started as a largely spontaneous event, state radio reported ... FULL
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Friday
September 17, 1999
* Amnesty calls for judicial reform
Sept 16, (Amnesty International ) -- Amnesty International today condemned
the death sentences passed against four people arrested in connection with
student demonstrations in Iran in July 1999 and called for the immediate
halt of trials held in secrecy. "The trial appears to have been conducted
in complete secrecy and with no opportunity for a proper appeal procedure.
We are calling for immediate commutation of the death sentences, urgent
clarification of the names of those sentenced, fair re-trials and the release
of all those held for their peaceful participation in the demonstrations,"
said Amnesty International ... FULL
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