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June 19-23, 2000 / Khordad 30-Tir 3, 1379

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Friday
June 23, 2000

Sheikh Ali Tehrani's "second" attempted suicide

Tehran (Hamshahri) -- Dissident cleric Sheikh Ali Tehrani has made a second suicide attempt, the daily Bahar reported. The first attempt was denied by his son Mahmoud Tehrani >>> FULL TEXT IN PERESIAN

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Judge said to issue verdict in spy case

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A judge doubling as prosecutor in a spy trial whose fairness has been questioned will issue a verdict in the case next week, a court official said Friday. Judge Sateq Nourani will issue a verdict in the trial of 13 Iranian Jews accused of spying for Israel on July 1, the official, Hossein Ali Amiri, told Iranian television Friday night >>> FULL TEXT

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Jailed professor given leave to prepare exams

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- A prominent journalist and university professor jailed on charges of insulting Islam and inciting dissent has been allowed a short leave to prepare exams, his family said Wednesday. Latif Safari, a Tehran University professor and director of the now-banned Neshat daily, was given six days leave after university officials appealed to the judiciary for his temporary release, his son Amir-Hossein told The Associated Press >>> FULL TEXT

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INDEX

* Sheikh Tehrani's "second" attempted suicide
* Judge said to issue verdict in spy case
* Jailed professor given leave to prepare exams
* Son denies Tehrani's suicide attempt
* No death penalty for accused spies
* Khatami protested against silencing papers: report
* Reformists See Room for a Better Iran
* Sheikh Ali Tehrani attempted suicide
* Feminist women free on bail
* Former Tehran riot squad chief faces arrest over student unrest
* Akbar Ganji's third letter to judiciary chief

* Hajjarian ready to appear in court
* Iran's Jews saddened by image built by espionage trial
* Soroush addresses Shariati seminar
* Festival omits Beethoven because of female voices
* Lawyers for Iranian Jews worry over trial delay

* Reformers urge rights respect
* Publisher imprisoned
* Docs remove Hajjarian's bullet

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Thursday
June 22, 2000

Son denies Tehrani's suicide attempt

The son of Sheikh Ali Tehrani has issued a statement denying a report that his father had committed suicide. Bahar newspaper in Iran reported that the dissident cleric had tried to kill himself by swallowing dozens of pills. Mahmoud Tehrani, who lives in Paris, described the report as a "lie." - >>> FULL TEXT

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No death penalty for accused spies

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - None of the 13 Iranian Jews accused of spying for Israel will be sentenced to death, a judiciary official said Thursday. The defense had said previously the charges do not carry the death penalty, but it was the first time an Iranian official representing the prosecution has ruled out death sentences for the accused >>> FULL TEXT

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Khatami protested against silencing papers: report

TEHRAN, June 22 (AFP) - President Mohammad Khatami protested to the chief of the conservative-dominated judicial system last month against the wave of closures of pro-reform newspapers, the Iranian press reported Thursday. Khatami "supported the newspapers" and "sent a message in the form of a constitutional warning" to Ayatollah Mahmud Hashemi Shahrudi, said new pro-reform newspaper Hayat-e-no, which is run by Hadi Khamenei, brother of the Islamic republic's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei >>> FULL TEXT

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Reformists See Room for a Better Iran

By ROBIN WRIGHT
Los Angeles Times
June 21, 2000

TEHRAN--The once-bustling offices at 15 Taheri St. are eerily silent, the corridors empty of life, the computers shut down, the lights off. Gone are the young reporters who defiantly worked here for two years--through constant criticism by conservatives, frequent charges by the judiciary, occasional jailings of the editor and publisher and, finally, five renamed versions of the same paper banned over and over again. One version lasted only a day FULL TEXT

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Wednesday
June 21, 2000

Sheikh Ali Tehrani attempted suicide

Tehran (Bahar) -- Sheikh Ali Tehrani, the dissident brother-in-law of Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, attempted suicide several days ago, Bahar newspaper reported >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN

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Feminist women free on bail

TEHRAN, June 21 (AFP) - Two Iranian feminists arrested and detained for having attended an "anti-Islamic" seminar in Berlin in April were freed on bail pending trial, the state news agency IRNA reported. Lawyer Mehranghiz Kar and publisher Shahla Lahiji, known for their campaign for women's rights in Iran, had been held in Evin prison since April 29 for their presence at the seminar earlier in the month >>> FULL TEXT

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Former Tehran riot squad chief faces arrest over student unrest

TEHRAN, June 21 (AFP) - Iran's military justice department ordered Wednesday the arrest of a former head of a Tehran riot squad in connection with investigations into last July's assault on students which triggered mass unrest, state radio reported. The department issued arrest warrants for Farhad Arjomandi and another officer of lower rank after they failed to appear before a military court, the radio said >>> FULL TEXT

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Akbar Ganji's third letter to judiciary chief

Tehran (Bahar) -- Political columnist Akbar Ganji, detained for his "anti-Islamic" comments at the Berlin conference, has written yet another letter to the judiciary chie >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN

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Hajjarian ready to appear in court

Tehran (Bahar) -- Saeed Hajjarian, leading reformist whose newspaper was shut down for alleged press violations, has told his lawyer that he is prepared to appear in court despite not having fully recovered following last february's assassination attempt >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN

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Iran's Jews saddened by image built by espionage trial

SHIRAZ, Iran, June 21 (AFP) - In a city where Jews and Muslims have long lived side by side, Shiraz's Jewish community is optimistic about the coming verdicts of 13 Jews accused of espionage but is saddened by the incorrect image of Iranian Jews the trial has created. "For a year, I've cried every night," said Golda Nic-Nam, a housewife who lives in Mahaleh, Shiraz's old Jewish quarter, a few streets away from the small Saati synagogue >>> FULL TEXT

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Soroush addresses Shariati seminar

Tehran (Bahar) -- "Those who sell religion are the biggest threats against a religious society," said Islamic thinker Abdolkarim Soroush at a seminar on Ali Shariati at Hosseiniyeh Ershad FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN

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Festival omits Beethoven because of female voices

TEHRAN, June 21 (AFP) - Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" was barred from a music festival being staged here Wednesday because it uses the female voice, the organizer of the event said. "We will not play the Ninth Symphony, because it includes the voices of women, which are forbidden according to the Islamic law in force in our country," said Fereydun Nasseri, head of the Tehran Philharmonic Orchestra >>> FULL

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Tuesday
June 20, 2000

Lawyers for Iranian Jews worry over trial delay

SHIRAZ, Iran, June 20 (AFP) - Lawyers defending Iranian Jews accused of spying for Israel are worried by the delay in winding up the trial and announcing a verdict in the southern city of Shiraz, their spokesman told AFP. They also maintain that no proof has emerged to corroborate the "confessions" of the accused, and contest their validity, said Ismael Nasseri, 40 >>> FULL TEXT

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Monday
June 12, 2000

Reformers urge rights respect

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's new reformist legislature warned the hard-line judiciary Sunday that its ``illegal behavior'' toward the press has damaged the country's international image, the Islamic Republic News Agency reported. A letter signed by 151 lawmakers called on the head of the judiciary, Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, to ``put an end to illegal and politically motivated closure of newspapers.'' >>> FULL TEXT

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Publisher imprisoned

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - An Iranian publisher has been imprisoned for insulting Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during the February election campaign, newspapers reported Saturday. Alireza Khoshandam, who runs a small book-publishing house called Creative Dialogue Publications, was prosecuted for remarks made during his unsuccessful bid to gain election to parliament >>> FULL TEXT

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Docs remove Hajjarian's bullet

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Doctors have removed a bullet from the neck of a leading reformer who was shot and critically wounded last March in an assassination attempt, a close aide said Sunday. Saeed Hajjarian was discharged from the hospital after the surgery Saturday and has returned home, said the aide, who identified himself only as Tajik >>> 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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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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