Human Rights
October 16-19, 2000 / Mehr 25-28, 1379
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* Montazeri defends reformist cleric
* German politicians, scientists slam Iranian cleric's trial
* Iran spy trial lawyers sacked
* Protesters block main Iran road over water shortage
* Reformists issue joint defence of Eshkevari
* Human rights progress marred by attack on press freedom:
UN
* Culture Ministry bans six weekly tabloids
* Ganji shares international Press Freedom Award
* Iran hangs two men for "sexual perversion"
* Eshkevari found guilty of apostasy, war
against Islam
* A woman raped and murdered in Tehran every six days: paper
* Pro-reform lawyer files appeal on suspension from bar
* New business paper hits newsstands
* NITV signal to Iran blocked - company
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Thursday
October 19, 2000
Montazeri defends reformist cleric
TEHRAN, Oct 19 (AFP) - Ayatollah Ali Montazeri, one-time designated
successor to the founder of Islamic Iran, defended Thursday an ailing reformist
cleric accused of blasphemy and possibly facing the death sentence. In
a fax to the wife of Hassan Yussefi-Eshkevari, a copy of which was obtained
by AFP, Montazeri, who has lived under guard in Qom, south of Tehran, since
1989, said he was "very sorry about the unfounded accusations."
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German politicians, scientists slam Iranian cleric's trial
BERLIN, Oct 19 (AFP) - German political, religious and scientific community
leaders have joined in condemning a closed-door trial in Iran of a pro-reform
cleric, Hassan Yussefi-Eshkevari, a German political foundation said here
Wednesday. Eshkevari reportedly challenged, in a speech in April to a conference
in Germany on the future of reforms in Iran, whether Islamic law requires
women to keep their heads and bodies covered >>>
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Iran spy trial lawyers sacked
Ocotber 19, (Financial Times) -- Two lawyers in the team defending 10
Iranian Jews convicted in Iran of spying for Israel have been dropped from
the case, raising fears in the Jewish community about the outcome of their
appeal to Iran's Supreme Court >>>
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Protesters block main Iran road over water shortage
TEHRAN, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Demonstrators angered by a shortage of drinking
water blocked a main road outside the Iranian capital Tehran on Wednesday,
leaving thousands of motorists stranded, an evening newspaper reported.
The daily Kayhan said traffic was stopped for two hours on the road connecting
Tehran to the Caspian Sea coast in the protest over a disruption of water
supplies to a rural housing project northeast of the capital >>>
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Wednesday
October 18, 2000
Reformists issue joint defence of Eshkevari
TEHRAN, Oct 18 (AFP) - Pro-reform Iranian parties have issued a jointstatement
in defence of an outspoken dissident cleric who could be facingthe death
sentence at his closed-door trial, press reports said Wednesday. A coalition
of supporters of President Mohammad Khatami denounced thecase against ailing
cleric Hassan Yusefi-Eshkevari, whose trial by theconservative Special
Court for Clergy (SCC) ended Saturday >>>
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Human rights progress marred by attack on press freedom: UN
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 18 (AFP) - Progress on human rights in Iranthis
year has been overshadowed, notably by attacks on press freedom anda high
number of executions, according to a UN report released onTuesday. "The
most dramatic and far-reaching event" of the period January 1 toAugust
15 was "the accelerating attack on the freedom of the press, whichled
to the virtual closing down of the entire reformist press," it said
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Culture Ministry bans six weekly tabloids
TEHRAN, Oct 18 (AFP) - Iran's culture ministry has slapped a temporary
ban on six weekly tabloids for repeatedly ignoring its directives, a newspaper
said Wednesday. The Abrar paper said their cases had been referred to Tehran's
conservative press court for a full investigation but did not specify what
the violations had been >>>
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Tuesday
October 17, 2000
Ganji shares international Press Freedom Award
October 11, 2000, Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE), Toronto
- A journalist who was kidnapped in Colombia and another who is in jail
in Iran will share the honours at this year's international Press Freedom
Awards dinner in Toronto next month.
The awards by Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) recognize
journalists who demonstrate a commitment to freedom of expression and who
overcome enormous odds simply to produce the news >>>
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Iran hangs two men for "sexual perversion"
TEHRAN, Oct 17 (AFP) - Two Iranians found guilty of "sexual perversion"
have been hanged at Qom to the south of the capital, Kayhan newspaper reported
Monday. The two men were hanged Sunday and Monday, the afternoon paper
said, without giving details of the alleged perversion -- a term which
in Iran can cover rape, adultery or homosexuality >>>
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Monday
October 16, 2000
Eshkevari found guilty of apostasy, war against Islam
TEHRAN, Oct 16 (AFP) - A closed-door trial has found an ailing pro-reform
Iranian cleric guilty of a battery of serious charges including apostasy
and waging war against Islam, the official IRNA news agency said Monday.
Hassan Yusefi-Eshkevari could now be facing the death sentence after the
conservative Special Court for Clergy (SCC) found him guilty on several
counts after an in-camera trial condemned by human rights groups >>> FULL TEXT
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A woman raped and murdered in Tehran every six days: paper
TEHRAN, Oct 16 (AFP) - A woman in Tehran is raped, murdered and mutilated
every six days as the capital faces an escalating crisis over runaways,
a government newspaper said Sunday. The Iran paper said the bodies of 30
women, some of them underage, have been found in the past six months, all
of them with their faces burned and all of them victims of rape >>> FULL TEXT
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Pro-reform lawyer files appeal on suspension from bar
TEHRAN, Oct 15 (AFP) - Mohsen Rahami, a leading pro-reform lawyer said
he has appealed his five-year suspension from the bar over a controversial
political case, the official IRNA news agency reported on Saturday. Mohsen
Rahami denounced the ruling against him as illegal and said top judge Ayatollah
Mahmud Hashemi-Shahrudi had passed on the files of the case to another
tribunal that investigates judicial misconduct >>>
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New business paper hits newsstands
TEHRAN, Oct 15 (AFP) - A new pro-free trade business newspaper hit Tehran's
newsstands on Saturday, the third press launch in Iran in a little more
than a month. The Tejarat-e Azad (Free Trade) paper will be published twice
a week but its directory board said it hopes to become a daily publication
as soon as possible to help "take a positive step" to boost the
free-trade movement >>>
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NITV signal to Iran blocked - company
LOS ANGELES, Oct 13 (AFP) - The signal into Iran of a US-based Iranian
television station has been blocked from that country, the French satellite
transmission company broadcasting the signal says. A "rogue carrier"
from Iran interrupted the signal of Los Angeles-based National Iranian
TV three times since October 1, and the station's transmission has been
halted since last Sunday, GlobeCast said in a statement Thursday >>> FULL TEXT
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Pro-reform parliament mulling private TV networks
TEHRAN, Oct 16 (AFP) - Iran's pro-reform parliament is studying a constitutional
amendment that would permit the nation's first-ever private television
networks, an MP told the official IRNA news agency Monday. Valiollah Shojapourian,
deputy head of parliament's culture committee, said lawmakers were looking
at ways to create channels that would be owned "by non-governmental
entities and not by the people." >>>
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