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Human Rights
September 5-8, 2000 / Shahrivar 15-18, 1379

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Friday
September 8, 2000

Kadivar tells crowd Islam does not restrict freedom

TEHRAN, Sept 7 (AFP) - A cleric who spent 18 months in prison for challenging religious domination of Iranian politics told a crowd of 5,000 Thursday that Islam does not restrict freedom. "Freedom is God's greatest gift," Mohsen Kadivar said at a ceremony marking the 21st anniversary of the death of Ayatollah Mahmud Taleqani, an architect of Iran 's 1979 Islamic revolution >>> FULL TEXT

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* Kadivar tells crowd Islam does not restrict freedom
* Authorities urged to help Armenian community amid exodus
* Majlis to probe attacks
* Annan seeks justice and "traditional Islamic mercy" for Iranian Jews
* Thousands of US-based Iranians rally against Khatami
* Worrying jump in criminality in Iran
* Majlis to probe attacks
* Annan seeks justice and "traditional Islamic mercy" for Iranian Jews
* Thousands of US-based Iranians rally against Khatami
* Worrying jump in criminality in Iran
* Iran considers amnesty for exiles
* Iran Freedom movement says students' restraint avoided disaster
* Iran delays review of alleged spies
* Iran daily retracts report parliament speaker to launch new paper
* Four Iranians arrested near U.N.
* U.S. blasts China, others for persecution

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Thursday
September 7, 2000

Iranian authorities urged to help Armenian community amid exodus

TEHRAN, Sept 7 (AFP) - An Iranian Armenian leader called late Wednesday on the authorities of the Islamic republic to assist Iran's Armenian community, amid a continued exodus from the country. Leon Davidian, who represents the some 250,000 Armenians in the Iranian parliament, did not go into details of the community's problems in a speech at the opening of the 33rd Armenian games in Tehran >>> FULL TEXT

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Wednesday
September 6, 2000

Majlis to probe attacks

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's reformist-controlled parliament voted Wednesday to investigate attacks on a student pro-democracy seminar last month that led to rioting and the death of a policeman. A majority in the 290-seat parliament voted in favor of launching an investigation into clashes that erupted in the western city of Khorramabad when hard-line vigilantes attacked the meeting of Iran's largest reformist student group >>> FULL TEXT

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Annan seeks justice and "traditional Islamic mercy" for Iranian Jews

UNITED NATIONS, Sept 6 (AFP) - UN Secretary General Kofi Annan told Iran's President Mohammad Khatami on Tuesday that he hoped 10 Iranian Jews convicted of spying would receive justice and mercy on appeal, UN officials said. Annan and Khatami met for 15 minutes with their aides, and then met for another 15 minutes alone, the officials said >>> FULL TEXT

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Thousands of US-based Iranians rally against Khatami

NEW YORK, Sept 6 (AFP) - Thousands of protesters gathered here Wednesday to denounce the presence of Iranian President Mohammad Khatami at the United Nations Millennium Summit. The demonstration, organized by the Iranian opposition group National Council of Resistance of Iran, took place on a small park that New York police had reserved for protests >>> FULL TEXT

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Worrying jump in criminality in Iran

TEHRAN, Sept 6 (AFP) - Criminality is rising at an alarming rate in Iran, where jails are now taking in "an average of one prisoner every 59 seconds," the Iran daily reported Tuesday. "According to figures gathered in June, our prisons currently hold 147,106 prisoners, of whom 96 percent are men," Mozafar Alvandi, head of the country's prison information system, said in comments quoted by Iran >>> FULL TEXT

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Tuesday
September 5, 2000

Iran considers amnesty for exiles

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A bill that would grant amnesty to Iranians who fled the country because of anti-government activities or ties to outlawed political parties is aimed at promoting national reconciliation and attracting badly needed investments, a lawmaker said Monday. The bill would allow such Iranians to return without fear of prosecution or punishment, said Elyas Hazrati, one of 40 lawmakers who signed the bill. Only those who have used violence against the state are excluded from the amnesty deal >>> FULL TEXT

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Iran Freedom movement says students' restraint avoided disaster

TEHRAN, Sept 5 (AFP) - Iran's progressive Islamist opposition Iran Freedom Movement (IFM) Monday praised the students caught up in last week's disturbances in the western city of Khorramabad for keeping their cool and "saving the country from a catastrophe." "The events of Khorramabad, where hundreds of people were injured, some seriously, are a lesson for the whole country," and the "trouble makers, the mafia of those in power which provoked them did not gauge the destructive effects of their action," the IFM said in a statement sent to AFP >>> FULL TEXT

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Iran delays review of alleged spies

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - An Iranian appeals court is delaying for the second time decisions on its review of the jail terms of 10 Jews convicted of spying for Israel, state-run radio reported Sunday night, quoting a senior judiciary official. The second review was apparently delayed for the same reason as the first: the judges hadn't agreed on whether all the charges that resulted in convictions constituted crimes, said Hossein Ali Amiri, the judiciary chief of southern Fars province where the men were tried >>> FULL TEXT

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Iran daily retracts report parliament speaker to launch new newspaper

TEHRAN, Sept 5 (AFP) - Iran's government-run daily retracted Tuesday a report that parliament speaker Mehdi Karubi plans to launch a new reformist newspaper in the coming days. The paper Iran said someone else was the founder of Aftab-e-Yazd, adding that it would have no political affiliation >>> FULL TEXT

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Four Iranians arrested near U.N.

NEW YORK (AP) - Four Iranians were arrested over the weekend for throwing yellow paint in separate incidents near the United Nations, where 150 world leaders are gathering this week for the U.N. Millennium Summit. One incident involved the president of Iran, police said Monday. It wasn't clear if the incidents were related, but a spokesman for the National Council of Resistance of Iran - which bills itself as Iran's parliament-in-exile - said yellow is ``the color of dismay, the color of disapproval,'' said Alireza Jararzadeh >>> FULL TEXT

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U.S. blasts China, others for persecution

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States, invoking U.N. declarations and its own tradition of religious freedom, on Tuesday blasted China, Sudan, Afghanistan and others for persecuting people for their religious faith and practices. In its second report on how free people are to practice their beliefs in 194 states, the State Department also rebuked some allies, including Saudi Arabia, Germany and France >>> FULL TEXT

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September 4, 2000

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