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September 18-22, 2000 / Shahrivar 28-Mehr 1, 1379

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Friday
September 22, 2000

Iranian verdict in espionage case "disturbing"

(New York, September 22, 2000 )--Human Rights Watch today expressed its disappointment over the decision of an Iranian appeals court to uphold prison terms for ten Jews and two Muslims from Shiraz initially accused of espionage for Israel. The appeals court upheld their conviction on charges of cooperation with a hostile state, and imposed on the defendants reduced prison sentences of between two and nine years >>> FULL TEXT

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Convicted Iranian Jews can still seek quashing of trial

TEHRAN, Sept 22 (AFP) - Ten Iranian Jews whose sentences for spying for Israel were reduced on appeal Thursday, can still apply for their whole trial to be quashed, a judiciary official confirmed Friday. If a submission to the Islamic republic's prosecutors is upheld they would be given a new trial before a different court in the province of Shiraz, the southern city's judiciary chief Hossein-Ali Amiri told AFP >>> FULL TEXT

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Eleven Jews intercepted trying to flee

Sept 21, 2000, WASHINGTON (AP) - Eleven Jews who attempted to leave Iran surreptitiously over a number of years have disappeared and could be imprisoned or have suffered an even worse fate, U.S. Jewish groups have told The State Department. The disclosure coincided with a ruling by an appeals court in Iran reducing the time 10 other Iranian Jews found guilty of cooperating with Israel will be required to serve in prison >>> FULL TEXT

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* Iranian verdict in espionage case "disturbing"
* Convicted Iranian Jews can still seek quashing of trial
* Eleven Jews intercepted trying to flee
* Jews' lawyers unhappy with appeal verdict
* Khatami criticizes discrimination against women
* UNHCR chief says Afghan programme extended, cuts short Iran visit
* Reformist weekly magazine banned: press
* Court challenges defence harassment claims in Jews spy case
* Security council at odds over unrest report: paper
* U.S. companies to attend Teheran trade fair
* U.S. businesses demand end of sanctions against Iran
* Khamenei sacks security police chief
* Rioters rampage during Khatami's speech: report
* Pro-reform students appeal for calm ahead of new school year
* Pro-reform journalist expecting shorter prison term
* Special committee against wife beating
* Khamenei pardons women, children in prison
* Doctors refuse abortions for blood disorder

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Thursday
September 21, 2000

Jews' lawyers unhappy with appeal verdict

SHIRAZ, Iran, Sept 21 (AFP) - Lawyers defending 10 Iranian Jews convicted of spying for Israel said Thursday they were unhappy with an appeal court verdict on the case, even though it cut several years off jail sentences imposed in July. "Certainly the court accepted part of our submissions and reduced the sentences," defence spokesman Ismail Nasseri told AFP >>> FULL TEXT

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Khatami criticizes discrimination against women

TEHRAN, Sept 21 (AFP) - President Mohammad Khatami called Wednesday for Iranian society to let go of habits which lead to discrimination against women, the official IRNA news agency reported. He said under real Islam, women are "wise, free and respectful, and like men, have the right to benefit from all of life's gifts" and criticised the form of Islam based on "superstitions and traditions." >>> FULL TEXT

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UNHCR chief says Afghan programme extended, cuts short Iran visit

TEHRAN, Sept 21 (AFP) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Sadako Ogata warned that the international community was becoming "increasingly disillusioned" about the fate of the roughly 2.6 million Afghans who have fled their war-torn homeland to Iran and Pakistan. Her sharp words came as she also said she would not be meeting with President Mohammad Khatami as previously announced but was returning to Geneva immediately >>> FULL TEXT

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Reformist weekly magazine banned: press

TEHRAN, Sept 21 (AFP) - Iran's special religious court has banned the reformist weekly magazine Khalij-e-Fars (Persian Gulf), published in the sourthern city of Boushehr, the reformist daily Afta-e-Yazd reported Thursday. The newspaper said the magazine's management was informed of the decision not by the court itself but by the ministry of culture and Islamic guidance >>> FULL TEXT

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Wednesday
September 20, 2000

Court challenges defence harassment claims in Jews spy case

TEHRAN, Sept 20 (AFP) - An Iranian court spokesman on Wednesday challenged the defence team for 10 Iranian Jews convicted of spying for Israel to reveal the names of judicial officials they said tried to pressure them into admitting the men were spies. "The lawyers have worked on this case since the beginning without constraint or limit," said Hossein-Ali Amiri, one day after the defence made the claims to AFP >>> FULL TEXT

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Security council at odds over unrest report: paper

TEHRAN, Sept 20 (AFP) - Members of Iran's National Security Council are at odds over a report to President Mohammad Khatami on the deadly unrest that rocked a provincial city last month, press reports said Tuesday. The Council delivered its report to the president Monday despite being unable to agree on many of its points, the pro-reform Hayat-e No paper said, citing "informed sources" who had spoken with a student news agency >>> FULL TEXT

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Tuesday
September 19, 2000

Pro-reform journalist, lawyer released from prison

TEHRAN, Sept 19 (AFP) - A pro-reform journalist and a lawyer who has defended the embattled reformist press were both released from prison on Tuesday, a defence attorney told AFP. Journalist Mohammad Qouchani and lawyer Mohammad-Ali Jedari-Forouqi, both jailed last month in separate cases, were freed from Tehran's Evin prison, said Forouqi's lawyer, Nemat Ahmadi >>> FULL TEXT

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Decision on appeal in Iran spy case

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - An Iranian appeals court will announce a decision by Thursday on the appeals of 10 Jews convicted and sentenced to jail on charges of spying for Israel, state-run radio reported Monday night, quoting a senior judiciary official. Hossein Ali Amiri, the judiciary chief of southern Fars province where the men were tried, said on Iranian radio that the decision was to be released by Thursday at the latest >>> FULL TEXT

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Monday
September 18, 2000

Khamenei sacks security police chief

TEHRAN, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Sunday sacked the hardline security police chief, who is mired in a court case that saw his subordinates convicted of torture. The official news agency IRNA said Khamenei had ordered the removal of Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Naqdi, who is fighting an eight-month jail sentence he received last year for slander in a graft scandal in Tehran municipality >>> FULL TEXT

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Rioters rampage during Khatami's speech: report

TEHRAN, Sept 18 (AFP) - More than 100 rioters smashed buses and robbed shopkeepers with swords during a speech in the western Iranian city of Orumiyeh by President Mohammad Khatami, press reports said Monday. Chanting "Freedom! Freedom!" and berating shop-owners for not closing down to attend Khatami's speech on Saturday, gangs destroyed vehicles and then broke into and robbed the city's gold bazaar, the Resalaat paper said >>> FULL TEXT

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Pro-reform students appeal for calm ahead of new school year

TEHRAN, Sept 18 (AFP) - Iran's largest pro-reform student group appealed for calm going into the new school year in order to avoid fresh unrest that could harm the reform movement, press reports said Monday. The spokesman for the Office to Consolidate Unity (OCU) said students should pursue a policy of "active calm" to avoid "falling into the trap of physical confrontation," the Aftab-e Yazd newspaper reported >>> FULL TEXT

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Pro-reform journalist expecting shorter prison term

TEHRAN, Sept 16 (AFP) - Iranian journalist Mashallah Shamsolvaezin, who has been granted a week's leave from prison, said in Saturday's press that his solitary confinement could cut time off his 30-month sentence. Shamsolvaezin, imprisoned in April for offending Islam after articles in his now banned newspaper questioned Iran's Islamic eye-for-an-eye law of retribution, told the Aftab-e Yazd paper he expected the jail term to be shortened >>> FULL TEXT

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Special committee against wife beating

Sept 17, 2000, Teheran (dpa) - Iran is setting up a special committee to combat physical abuse of women, especially in the home by husbands, the students' news agency ISNA reported Sunday. ``This committee is compromised of representatives of the interior and education ministries, the police and the coroner's office and aimed at avoiding abuse of women, especially violence at home by husbands against their wives,'' said Zahra Shojaie, the presidential advisor on women's affairs >>> FULL TEXT

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Doctors refuse abortions for blood disorder

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian doctors are refusing to abort fetuses diagnosed with the debilitating genetic blood disorder thalassemia, fearing prosecution for killing an unborn child, the Aftab-e Yazd newspaper said on Sunday. Abortion is normally illegal in the Islamic Republic punishable with a jail term and payment of blood money to the family, but a ``fatwa'' (a written decision on a point of law) from the country's religious leadership approves abortion on thalassemic fetuses under 10 weeks old >>> FULL TEXT

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Doctors refuse abortions for blood disorder

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian doctors are refusing to abort fetuses diagnosed with the debilitating genetic blood disorder thalassemia, fearing prosecution for killing an unborn child, the Aftab-e Yazd newspaper said on Sunday. Abortion is normally illegal in the Islamic Republic punishable with a jail term and payment of blood money to the family, but a ``fatwa'' (a written decision on a point of law) from the country's religious leadership approves abortion on thalassemic fetuses under 10 weeks old >>> FULL TEXT

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