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Friday
January 12, 2001
Lawyer for murder victims' families reported out on bail
TEHRAN, Jan 12 (AFP) - The lawyer for the families of two murdered Iranian
dissidents, who was jailed for alleging that a series of killings at the
end of 1998 were part of a wider plot, has been freed on bail, a student
news agency said. Nasser Zarafshan, who represented the relatives of murdered
writers Mohammed Mokhtari and Mohammad Pouyandeh, was released Wednesday
on bail of 400 million rials (60,000 dollars), the ISNA agency reported
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* Lawyer for murder victims' families
reported out on bail
* Court calls ex-intelligence chief over 1998 dissident
murders
* Iran hangs 21-year-old who murdered militiaman
* Iran hangs a murderer in public at dawn
* Murder defendants all secret agents: official
* Iran militants say secret agents tortured in jail
* 15 ex-agents plead guilty
* No verdict yet in trial of reformists over "un-Islamic"
meeting
* Supporters of dissident Iran cleric aiming to form political
party
* Arrest figure tops 300 for "depraved" Iran parties:
press
* Amputations should halt until economy is fixed: Iran paper
* Murderer hanged in public
* Human smugglers trying to "exploit" Iranian market:
Aussie minister
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Thursday
January 11, 2001
Columnist sentenced to eight months in prison
TEHRAN, Jan 11 (AFP) - Satirical journalist Ebrahim Nabavi has been
sentenced to eight months in prison by Tehran's press court, the government
daily Iran reported Thursday. Nabavi was accused by the court of "publishing
lies, insults against officials of the regime and unfounded accusations"
against them >>>
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Death penalty faces 800 drug traffickers in Iran
TEHRAN, Jan 11 (AFP) - Iran's chief justice Ayatollah Mahmud Hashemi-Shahrudi
said Wednesday that 800 drug traffickers were on death row and called for
further harsh punishment, the official IRNA agency reported. The agency
quoted him as saying: "800 cases imposing the death penalty on drug
traffickers have been looked at by the remission panel, but no sentences
were commuted >>>
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Wednesday
January 10, 2001
Court calls ex-intelligence chief over 1998 dissident murders
TEHRAN, Jan 10 (AFP) - Former intelligence minister has been summoned
to court as an "informed person" in the trial of 18 secret agents
for the 1998 murders of several dissidents, press reports said Wednesday.
Ali Fallahian, who headed the ministry from 1993 to 1997 under then-president
Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, has been asked to answer questions over the killings,
the pro-reform Hambastigi paper said >>>
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Iran hangs 21-year-old who murdered militiaman
SHAHRE REY, Iran, Jan 10 (AFP) - A 21-year-old convicted of murdering
a member of the nation's volunteer Basij Islamic militia was hanged in
public just after sunrise on Wednesday. Hamid Heydari had been found guilty
in the stabbing death of Teymour Hassan-Zadeh, a father of three, several
months ago >>>
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Iran hangs a murderer in public at dawn
SHAHRE REY, Iran, Jan 10 (AFP) - The moon was still bright in the black
sky when the police laid out their tools below an ancient willow tree --
a chair, an unsteady ladder, and a coil of rope with the hangman's noose.
In three hours, just after feeling the sun come up to touch his face one
final time, Hamid Heydari would be dead >>>
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Tuesday
January 9, 2001
Murder defendants all secret agents: official
TEHRAN, Jan 9 (AFP) - All 18 defendants on trial for the 1998 murders
of several Iranian dissidents and intellectuals are intelligence agents,
Iranian TV on Tuesday quoted Intelligence Minister Ali Yunesi as saying.
"All of them belong to the intelligence service and their faces will
not be made public," he said, the first time an Iranian official has
publicly confirmed all 18 are linked to the secret service.
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Iran militants say secret agents tortured in jail
TEHRAN, Jan 8 (Reuters) - A group of Islamic militants have accused
senior clerics close to Iran's supreme leader of involvement in the cover-up
of alleged torture against secret agents involved in the serial murders
of dissidents >>>
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Monday
January 8, 2001
15 ex-agents plead guilty
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Fifteen former Iranian Intelligence Ministry agents
on trial for the murders of four government critics have pleaded guilty,
a newspaper reported Monday. The two other defendants denied direct involvement
in the killings after nine sessions of the closed-door trial, the reformist
daily Hambastegi said >>>
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No verdict yet in trial of reformists over "un-Islamic"
meeting
TEHRAN, Jan 8 (AFP) - Defence lawyers said Monday the verdict from a
Tehran revolutionary court on Iranian reformists who attended a controversial
"un-Islamic" conference in Germany has been postponed. The court
has said the meeting, attended by several allies of President Mohammad
Khatami, was aimed at overthrowing the clerical regime, meaning those convicted
could be facing long jail terms or worse >>>
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Supporters of dissident Iran cleric aiming to form political party
TEHRAN, Jan 7 (AFP) - Supporters of dissident Iranian cleric Ayatollah
Hossein-Ali Montazeri, who is under house arrest, are working to create
their own political party, press reports said Sunday. A group including
other clerics and at least one former MP has filed a formal application
with the interior ministry for approval of the political grouping, the
Jomhuri-Eslami paper said without giving any names >>>
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Arrest figure tops 300 for "depraved" Iran parties: press
TEHRAN, Jan 7 (AFP) - More than 300 people, including Europeans and
other foreigners, were arrested in a crackdown on "depraved"
New Year's parties in Tehran, according to the latest figures in Sunday's
press. Newspaper reports have given conflicting reports on the exact number
of arrests, which reportedly sparked widespread protests from the largely
well-to-do families of those detained >>>
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Amputations should halt until economy is fixed: Iran paper
TEHRAN, Jan 6 (AFP) - A conservative Iranian daily urged Saturday that
amputating the fingers of thieves, as called for under Iran's Islamic law,
be called off until the nation's struggling economy is repaired. "The
worsening economic situation is imposing a heavy burden on low-income families,"
the Tehran Times said in an editorial which comes after reports of three
such punishments in recent days >>>
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Murderer hanged in public
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A man who killed his wife and daughter to elope
with his lover was hanged in Iran Sunday in front of thousands of people.
Spectators started gathering at dawn in freezing temperatures in front
of Tehran's Ghasr Prison to watch the hanging of Hasan Feelom, 39. Feelom
was convicted of killing Fatemeh Ahangaran, 24, and their 19-month-old
daughter Melika on Aug. 9 >>>
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Human smugglers trying to "exploit" Iranian market: Aussie
minister
TEHRAN, Jan 8 (AFP) - Human smugglers trying to "exploit"
the Iranian market have led to a sharp rise in the number of Iranians caught
trying to enter Australia illegally, Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock
said Monday. He told a Tehran press conference that Australia has seeen
a dramatic increase in the number of Iranians detained after his government's
efforts to block illegals coming from Iraq and Afghanistan >>>
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