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Human Rights
July 3-7, 2000 / Tir 13-17, 1379

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Friday
July 7, 2000

Soroush and Kadivar win human rights grants

(New York) July 4, 2000 -- Human Rights Watch today announced a diverse group of writers from 22 countries to receive grants recognizing their courage in the face of political persecution >>> FULL TEXT

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* Soroush and Kadivar win human rights grants
* Three reported killed in unrest in Abadan
* Five arrested over videotape
* Pro-reform lawyers to be tried in secret
* France linked to Dutch police break up of immigrant network
* Press court summons conservative newspaper chiefs
* Students plan peaceful protests
* Former Tehran riot squad officer jailed over student unrest
* Pro-reform newspaper editors launch hunger-strike
* Iranian Jews in Israel call for solidarity with spy defendants
* Iran calls on UN to help free Iranians "kidnapped" by Israel

* Students to mark anniversary of unrest with flowers
* Prominent reformists denounce Sahgabi's arrest
* Jewish leaders fear emigration

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Thursday
July 6, 2000

Three reported killed in unrest in Abadan

TEHRAN, July 6 (AFP) - Three people were killed late Wednesday in clashes with security forces in the southern Iranian city of Abadan during riots over a lack of drinking water, a press report said Thursday. The security forces moved in to prevent the sacking of the town by angry protesters, the conservative Jomhuri Eslami reported >>> FULL TEXT

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Five arrested over videotape

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Five people were arrested and charged with helping make a controversial videotape featuring an Islamic vigilante group member discussing his links to hardline politicians, state-run Tehran radio reported Thursday. The five men were briefly detained for ``their role in preparing and distributing the videotape,'' the radio quoted a Tehran Justice Administration statement as saying >>> FULL TEXT

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Pro-reform lawyers to be tried in secret

TEHRAN, July 6 (AFP) - Two leading Iranian pro-reform lawyers arrested last month will go on trial next week behind closed doors with six other people over video-cassettes which point the finger at top officials, the state news agency IRNA reported Thursday. It quoted a Tehran judiciary statement as saying that Shirin Ebadi and Mohsen Rahami would be tried on July 15 >>> FULL TEXT

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France linked to Dutch police break up of immigrant network

THE HAGUE, July 6 (AFP) - Dutch police said Thursday that they had broken up three major illegal immigration networks run by Iranians who had entered the country using visas provided by the French embassy in Tehran. A total of 60 people -- 54 Iranians, three Iraqis, two Algerians and a Romanian -- have been arrested since September 1999, police said >>> FULL TEXT

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Press court summons conservative newspaper chiefs

TEHRAN, July 6 (AFP) - Two conservative daily newspaper directors have been summoned to appear before Tehran's press court, the official IRNA news agency reported Thursday. Hossein Shariatmadari, head of Kayhan, and Morteza Nabavi, director of Resalaat, have been summoned following the publication of articles in connection with taped remarks against some officials of the Islamic Republic of Iran>>> FULL TEXT

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Wednesday
July 5, 2000

Students plan peaceful protests to mark anniversary of violence

TEHRAN, July 5 (AFP) - Iranian students who risked their lives last year to protest the closure of a reformist newspaper will mark the first anniversary of a violent police intervention, which sparked widespread unrest, by handing out flowers. Reformist student groups, cautiously optimistic about the post-parliamentary elections political game, have called on their supporters to join in giving "flowers to the people" at major intersections in Tehran on Saturday >>> FULL TEXT

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Former Tehran riot squad officer jailed over student unrest

TEHRAN, July 4 (AFP) - The former head of a Tehran riot squad was recently jailed in connection with investigations into last July's assault on students which triggered mass unrest across the country, the government-run Iran paper said Tuesday >>> FULL TEXT

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Pro-reform newspaper editors launch hunger-strike to mark student unrest

TEHRAN, July 5 (AFP) - Three jailed reformist Iranian newspaper editors will stage a hunger strike to mark the first anniversary of a violent police assault on a Tehran University, the government-run Iran paper reported Wednesday. "Ezatollah Sahabi, Mashallah Shamsolvaezin, and Latif Safari, who are serving a prison sentence following the recent suspension of their papers, have announced that they will perform a political fasting on Friday and Saturday to mark the anniversary of the unrest," the paper said >>> FULL TEXT

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Iranian Jews in Israel call for solidarity with spy defendants

HOLON, Israel, July 5 (AFP) - In this town near Tel Aviv, the center of Israel's 200,000-strong community of Iranian Jews, the mood is grim and angry after an Iranian court sentenced 10 Jews to prison on charges of spying for Israel >>> FULL TEXT

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Iran calls on UN to help free Iranians "kidnapped" by Israel

TEHRAN, July 5 (AFP) - Iran has called on the United Nations to help secure the release of four of its nationals "kidnapped by the Zionist regime" after they disappeared in Lebanon 18 years ago, the official IRNA news agency reported Tuesday >>> FULL TEXT

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Tuesday
July 4, 2000

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Monday
July 3, 2000

Students to mark anniversary of unrest with flowers

TEHRAN, July 3 (AFP) - Pro-reform Iranian students said Monday they will mark the one-year anniversary of a police assault on a Tehran University dormitory by handing out flowers at major intersections throughout the capital. The peaceful protest is being termed "reforms with a smile," said representatives of two student organizations, the Office of Unity and Consolidation and the Islamic Student Organization >>> FULL TEXT

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Prominent reformists denounce Sahgabi's arrest

TEHRAN, July 2 (AFP) - Nearly 300 Iranian political figures and academics have drafted an open letter denouncing the recent arrest of Ezzatollah Sahabi, a leader in Iran's progressive opposition. "We ask for the unconditional release of Mr. Sahabi, a moderate-minded patriot and longstanding fighter and a high official in the provisional government at the start of the revolution," wrote the 276 signers of the letter, which will be published in the press >>> FULL TEXT

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Jewish leaders fear emigration

SHIRAZ, Iran (AP) - Iranian Jewish leaders said Sunday they fear a wave of Jewish emigration from Iran following a court's decision to convict 10 Jews of spying for Israel and sentence them to prison terms. The Jews were among 13 suspects arrested more than a year ago in this officially Islamic, fiercely anti-Israel nation >>> FULL TEXT

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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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