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Dec 7-11, 1998 / Azar 16-20, 1377

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* Alarming pattern of killings and "disappearances"
* Bani Sadr given extra French police protection

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* Dissident Iran author missing -- relatives
* Gloves come off in Iran's political struggle
* Another missing Iranian writer dead under suspicious circumstances
* Missing Iran dissident poet found dead-relatives

* German court rejects appeal over Iran verdict
* Who is behind the slaying of Iranian dissidents?
* Sane'ie backs Khatami
* Organisation concerned about fate of missing journalist
* Khatami attacks conservatives
* Iran torn between reform, revolution on eve of anniversaries
* MUST READ: Karbaschi on politics
* Liberal opposition editor banned for one year

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* Alarming pattern of killings and "disappearances"

11 December 1998, (Amnesty International) - An alarming pattern of murders and "disappearances" of several prominent Iranian writers and government critics is emerging in Iran, Amnesty International said today. Amnesty International is concerned for the safety of Mohammad Ja'far Puyandeh, Hushang Golshiri, Kazem Kordavini, `Ali Ashraf Darvishiyan and Mansur Kushan, all of whom are prominent Iranian writers ... FULL TEXT

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* Bani Sadr given extra French police protection

PARIS, Dec 11 (AFP) - Exiled former Iranian president Abolhassan Bani Sadr has been given added French police protection following a wave of kidnaps and assassinations in Iran, he said Friday. "Protection has been reinforced around my home" since mid-November, following the killing of nationalist opposition leader Daryush Foryhar and his wife, he said ... FULL TEXT

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* Dissident Iran author missing -- relatives

TEHRAN, Dec 10 (Reuters) - An Iranian dissident author has gone missing in the latest disappearance of secular opposition intellectuals, his relatives said on Thursday. They said Mohammad Jafar Pouyandeh, a 45-year-old translator and author, had gone missing after he left his Tehran office on Wednesday afternoon. ``We have contacted all relevant authorities, including police, hospitals, and the morgue, with no trace of him to be found,'' a relative told Reuters... FULL TEXT

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* Gloves come off in Iran's political struggle

TEHRAN, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Iran's powerful conservatives have slammed President Mohammad Khatami for his staunch defence of his ``civil society'' programme, taking aim for the first time directly at the popular moderate leader. In a series of public statements and press commentaries, the conservatives blasted Khatami's question-and-answer session on December 7 before a university crowd hungry for social and political reform, accusing him of playing partisan politics and defaming the divine values of the Islamic Revolution... FULL TEXT

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* Another missing Iranian writer dead under suspicious circumstances

New York, December 9, 1998 (Human Rights Watch) - Human Rights Watch urged the Iranian government to investigate the recent death of an Iranian writer under suspicious circumstances. The body of Iranian poet, writer, and free expression advocate Mohammad Makhtari was found today in a Tehran city morgue, Human Rights Watch said. Marks on his head and neck made it appear that he had been murdered, possibly by strangulation, although no autopsy has yet been carried out ... FULL TEXT

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* Missing Iran dissident poet found dead-relatives

TEHRAN, Dec 9 (Reuters) - The body of an Iranian dissident poet has been found after he went missing in Tehran last week, his relatives said on Wednesday. They said Mohammad Mokhtari's son, Siavash, identified his father's body at a Tehran morgue on Wednesday. Mokhtari had been missing since he left his home last Thursday. ``Officials said Mokhtari's body had been found on Friday in the outskirts of Tehran but that it had not been identified,'' a relative told Reuters. ``The cause of death is not known yet.'' There was no official confirmation of the report ... FULL TEXT

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* German court rejects appeal over Iran verdict

KARLSRUHE, Germany, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Germany's highest criminal court rejected on Wednesday an appeal against a 1997 verdict which concluded that Iranian intelligence had ordered the assassination of Kurdish dissidents in Berlin. The ruling by the Federal Court of Justice means the verdicts in the trial, which prompted a diplomatic rift between the European Union and Iran for several months, are legally binding ... FULL TEXT

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* Who is behind the slaying of Iranian dissidents?

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- After Dariush Foruhar and his wife were found stabbed to death under mysterious circumstances, dissidents began to more openly question a string of slayings of critics of the Iranian government. Dissidents and newspapers are beginning to question the spate of slayings, emboldened by the promise of political freedoms offered by President Mohammad Khatami, a moderate cleric elected last year. Others killed include a Tehran University professor, a magazine editor, a publisher, three Christian priests and two Sunni Muslim preachers who spoke out against Iran's Shiite Muslim leaders... FULL TEXT

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* Sane'ie backs Khatami

TEHRAN (Hamshahri) - Ayatollah Yousef Sane'ie backs Khatami, Islam is "not a repressive religion." ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN

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* Organisation concerned about fate of missing journalist

The International Secretariat of World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) requests your URGENT intervention regarding the following situation in Iran. Brief description of the situation: The International Secretariat has been informed by several sources that on 3 December 1998, Mr. Mohamad Mokhtari, a famous Iranian writer, allegedly disappeared in Tehran... FULL TEXT

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* Khatami attacks conservatives

TEHRAN (Hamshahri) - Khatami responds to questions from students at Tehran University; attacks conservatives and insists on people's freedoms and right to determine their future... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN

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* Iran torn between reform, revolution on eve of anniversaries

TEHRAN, Dec 8 (AFP) - Austere portraits of Ayatollah Khomeini watch over Tehran streets as a reminder that his legacy lives on, but schoolgirls cover their notebooks with pictures of "Titanic" heart-throb Leonardo DiCaprio. On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution, Iran is a country of seeming contradictions and one torn between loyalty to the ideals of the revolution and a profound desire for reform ... FULL TEXT

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* MUST READ: Karbaschi on politics

TEHRAN (Hamshahri) - Detailed interview with (Former?) Tehran Mayor Gholam-hossein Karbaschi on moderation, tolerance and peaceful opposition in politics ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN... Part (1) ... Part (2)


* Liberal opposition editor banned for one year

TEHRAN, Dec 7 (Reuters) - A court in Iran has banned a prominent liberal opposition editor from heading any publication for one year amid increased pressures against the moderate press, newspapers reported on Monday. The ruling against Ezzatollah Sahabi came as Faezeh Hashemi, editor of the moderate daily Zan (Woman) and daughter of former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, appeared in court to face charges of ``publishing lies ... FULL TEXT

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Forouhar petition

Petition drive by the Iran National Front, USA, in coordination with Iranian Human Rights Working Group and Democratic Network of Iran

To: The Honorable Mary Robinson
United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights
Geneva, Switzerland

We are outraged to learn of the brutal and gruesome killing of two prominent opposition leaders in Iran, Mr. Dariush Forouhar and Mrs. Parvaneh Eskandari-Forouhar on Sunday, November22, 1998. We are sending this fax/e-mail to you to ask for your expression of condemnation and outrage against this extra-judicial execution. We are also very concerned about the safety and security of other opposition members in Iran, including Mr. Abbas Amir-Entezam who remains in jail.... MORE DETAILS

Forouhar and the death penalty

By Hossein Baqerzadeh
November 22, 1998
Iranian Human Rights Working Group

Mr. Forouhar was the first political leader inside the country to respond positively to the call made ny Iranian Human Rights Working Group for the abolition of the death penalty in Iran. In a letter and statement he issued on the Human Rights Day (December 10) last year, he declared his and his party's commitment to end the death penalty in Iran. This makes the murder of Forouhar and his wife particularly sad. On the other hand, the best way of showing him respect will be respond posoitively to the call for the abloition of the death penalty in Iran... FULL TEXT

 

Bahai Institute of Higher Education shut down

"At the end of September 1998 the Iranian government launched a coordinated attack to shut down the Bahá'í Institute of Higher Education -- also known as the "Open University" -- by orchestrating the arrests of its most prominent professors and staff and looting more than 500 homes where the Institute's activities had been conducted."... FULL TEXT

Feature

Stoning

Video showing a stonings in Iran in 1991. Extremely disturbing. Not recommended ... VIDEO CLIP HERE

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* Amnesty International

* Human Rights Watch

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* United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights


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