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Friday
January 26, 2001
Ganji says remarks "distorted" -- agency
TEHRAN, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Iranian journalist Akbar Ganji, in prison
after being convicted on dissent charges, has said remarks he made to Reuters
and two Western newspapers were "distorted," his brother told
the official IRNA news agency on Friday. IRNA quoted Asghar Ganji as saying
his brother's prison interview, carried out earlier this week in writing
through an intermediary, was misrepresented >>>
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More Journalists in Iranian jails than rest of Mideast
Reporters Sans Frontieres
January 24, 2001
Iran is now the Middle East country keeping the most journalists in
prison. Reporters Without Borders is launching a campaign to bring the
facts to public attention >>>
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Reformists allege violations
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Reformists in parliament have formally accused the
judiciary of violating citizens' rights by ordering illegal detentions
and prison terms for pro-democracy activists and politicians, a lawmaker
said Thursday. About half the lawmakers in the 290-seat Majlis, or parliament,
had signed a letter to the judiciary to demand that it ``reconsider its
behavior and stop violation of legal rights,'' lawmaker Mohammad Reza Tabesh
told The Associated Press >>>
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* Ganji says remarks "distorted"
-- agency
* More Journalists in Iranian jails than rest of Mideast
* Reformists allege violations
* Iran progressive movement expresses "deep concern"
for religious reformer
* Press freedom group calls for release of 10 jailed journalists
* Parliament condemns press crackdown by courts
* Ganji warns of political explosion
* Iranian students in hi-tech protest
* Judiciary reject appeal in Jews' spy case: lawyer
* Police gatecrash party, arrest 37 drinkers and dancers
* Reformist charged in riots
* Journalists warn "illegal" crackdown will be
bad news for regime
* Reformists want convictions overturned in Berlin conference
case
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Thursday
January 25, 2001
Iran progressive movement expresses "deep concern" for
religious reformer
TEHRAN, Jan 25 (AFP) - The progressive Islamist party, the Movement
for the Liberation of Iran (MLI), expressed its "deep concern"
over the fate of a religious reformer jailed for apostasy -- punishable
by death in Iran. "We have deep concern for a man who merely defends
freedom of thought," AFP was told by an official from MLI, which is
banned but tolerated in Iran and was founded by former prime minister Mehdi
Bazargan >>>
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Wednesday
January 24, 2001
Press freedom group calls for release of 10 jailed journalists
NICOSIA, Jan 24 (AFP) - The press freedom group "Reporters sans
frontieres" (RSF - Reporters without borders) called Wednesday for
the release of 10 journalists in Iran, describing the country as "the
biggest prison for journalists in the Middle East." In a statement
received by AFP in Nicosia, RSF recalls that "10 Iranian journalists
are currently in jail and the sentences handed down on them range from
four months to 10 years in prison, and that two others, sentenced to four
and nine years in jail, have not yet been arrested.">>>
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Parliament condemns press crackdown by courts
TEHRAN, Jan 24 (AFP) - A majority of reformist members of the parliament
Wednesday condemned the conservative-dominated courts for the arrest of
journalists and closure of reformist papers and for recent sentences handed
out to "political detainees", television reported. In an open
letter to the head of the judiciary, Ayatollah Mahmud Hashemi-Shahrudi,
more than 150 deputies expressed their "deep concern" over "the
illegal actions" of the judicial system >>>
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Tuesday
January 23, 2001
Ganji warns of political explosion
TEHRAN, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Iranian journalist Akbar Ganji, who recently
received a 10-year jail sentence for dissent, warned on Monday of a political
explosion unless conservatives eased pressure on the reform movement. In
his first interview since his conviction with six other activists earlier
this month, Ganji said he was honoured to stand up for his ideals in the
face of what he called dictatorship and religious intolerance >>> FULL
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Iranian students in hi-tech protest
BBC World Service, 1/22/01 -- Students are demanding the release of
political prisoners For the first time in the history of the Iranian student
movement, a group of students has set up an interactive web site in support
of a protest against the detention of political prisoners >>>
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Judiciary reject appeal in Jews' spy case: lawyer
TEHRAN, Jan 23 (AFP) - The judiciary has rejected an appeal by 10 Jews
convicted last year of spying for Israel to get their sentences overturned,
one of their lawyers told AFP on Tuesday. "We have received unconfirmed
reports that the prosecutor-general has denied our request," attorney
Mostafa Mandegar said from the southern city of Shiraz where the trial
was held last year >>>
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Police gatecrash party, arrest 37 drinkers and dancers
TEHRAN, Jan 23 (AFP) - The anti-corruption police arrested 37 people
for drinking and dancing together when they raided a party in the southern
town of Shiraz, the Jomhuri-Eslami newspaper said Tuesday. Police arrested
22 men and 15 young women, "most of whom had been drinking and dancing
together," the paper said. It described the women as dressed in a
"disgusting manner >>>
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Monday
January 22, 2001
Reformist charged in riots
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - An Iranian court charged a key ally of reformist
President Mohammad Khatami with slander and incitement to riot Sunday for
his alleged role in unrest last summer. Mostafa Tajzadeh, a deputy interior
minister who is supervising the presidential election scheduled for June,
said he was charged with ``slander and provoking people to disturb public
security and order.'' >>>
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Journalists warn "illegal" crackdown will be bad news for
regime
TEHRAN, Jan 22 (AFP) - The guild of journalists said Monday that the
"illegal" crackdown on the press shows no signs of letting up
and warned the end result could be bad news for the Islamic regime. In
a statement carried by the state IRNA news agency, the guild said the conservative-led
courts were refusing to give a straight answer to its complaints over the
closure of newspapers and the arrests of reporters >>>
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Reformists want convictions overturned in Berlin conference case
TEHRAN, Jan 22 (AFP) - The leftwing reformist Participation Front called
Monday for the convictions of 10 people sentenced to jail terms for taking
part in a Berlin conference deemed "un-Islamic" to be overturned.
"The courts must take the law into consideration, to win the confidence
of public opinion and acquit the condemned participants," said a statement
from the Front, which is led by the brother of President Mohammad Khatami,
Mohammad-Reza >>>
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