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March 31, 2000

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Thursday
March 30, 2000

* Human rights reform in Iran an irreversible trend: UN

GENEVA, March 30 (AFP) - Reform of Iran's human rights situation is an irreversible trend and is expected to pick up speed, while a sense of accountability is also emerging, a UN rapporteur said Thursday. But resistance to change in Iran still exists, a fact made clear by press reports, in themselves a reflection of freedom of expression, special representative Maurice Danby Copithorne told journalists >>> FULL TEXT

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* Khatami's brother summoned by press court

TEHRAN, March 30 (AFP) - Mohammad-Reza Khatami, brother of the Iranian president and publisher of the reformist daily Mosharekat (Participation), was summoned Thursday to appear before the country's press court, IRNA reported. Khatami has been named as a defendant in a "private defamation and libel suit," and is to stand trial "next week, perhaps later next month," the official news agency said without further comment >>> FULL TEXT

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Wednesday
March 22, 2000

* Khatami calls on Revolutionary Guards to maintain security in Iran

TEHRAN, March 29 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami on Wednesday called on Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards, or Pasdaran, to fight against threats to the country's security, the official IRNA agency reported. His latest comments came just days after he made a similar appeal to the country's intelligence ministry, and as other reformist leaders continued to allege a conservative conspiracy against them >>> FULL TEXT

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* Reformer summoned to court over "shadow government" charges

TEHRAN, March 29 (AFP) - A leading activist in the Iranian reform movements has been summoned to appear before Tehran's revolutionary court over charges that the nation is being run by a bloodthirsty "shadow government", press reports said Wednesday. Journalist Emadeddin Baghi has alleged that a murky network of secret agents is operating inside the police, intelligence services, state media and the elite Revolutionary Guards, functioning as a parallel power that controls the Islamic republic >>> FULL TEXT

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Tuesday
March 28, 2000

* Hajjarian could be flown to Germany for treatment

TEHRAN, March 28 (AFP) - Doctors treating the shot reformist politician Said Hajarian carried out a second successful operation, but their patient may be flown to Germany for further treatment, the press reported Tuesday. Hajarian, who was gunned down in a Tehran street earlier this month, underwent a stomach operation, newspapers reported, citing a statement issued by his doctors >>> FULL TEXT

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* Relatives of missing Iranians seek Lebanon help

BEIRUT, March 28 (AFP) - Family members of four Iranians kidnapped in Lebanon in 1982 Tuesday asked Prime Minister Salim Hoss to obtain information on the fate of their lost relatives, a Lebanese official said. They met Hoss at his private residence in the presence of the charge d'affaires at the Iranian embassy in Beirut Mohammad Mohtadi >>> FULL TEXT

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Monday
March 27, 2000

* Reformers stepping up charges that "shadow government" in control

TEHRAN, March 27 (AFP) - Iranian reformers behind President Mohammad Khatami are mounting charges that the nation is being run by a bloodthirsty "shadow government" after an attempt on the life of a close Khatami ally. They say a murky network of secret agents is operating inside the police, intelligence services, state media and the elite Revolutionary Guards, functioning as a parallel power that controls the Islamic republic >>> FULL TEXT

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* Reformers say conservatives blocking inquiry into shooting

TEHRAN, March 26 (AFP) - Iranian reformers on Sunday renewed accusations that the regime's conservatives are trying to cover up the investigation into the assassination attempt on a leading pro-reform activist. Mohammad-Reza Khatami, head of the largest reform party and brother of President Mohammad Khatami, also rejected charges that reformers were linked to the shooting of Said Hajarian, still fighting for his life in a Tehran hospital >>> FULL TEXT

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* Suspects in Hajarian murder bid to face special Iranian court

TEHRAN, March 25 (AFP) - The alleged attacker of Iranian reformist Said Hajarian and five people accused of helping him will be tried before a special Islamic court, Iranian state radio reported Saturday. "It is a special judge and a special court that have been appointed to judge the authors of this attack," said the report, referring to an exchange of letters on the matter between the senior court officials. The report did not say when the trial would take place >>> 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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