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* IHRWG Condemns Crackdown on the freedom of expression
* Khamenei speaks on press freedom
* Some 500 Baha'i homes raided in Iran
* Human Rights Watch calls for release of Iranian journalist
* Iran reformists meet rejection
* Hadi Khamenei's speech at rally
* Council of Guardians rejects criticisms
* Iran women's fight not feministic, says official
* Iran to appoint first woman to U.N. mission
* "Banoo" still banned
* Factions face off before key election
* Rushdie shows at German book fair
* Khatami confronts election body
* Writers told not to organize, reports say
* "Asr-e-ma" suspended for 6 months
* Iran Panel: Rushdie Edict in Force
* Death sentence against editor lifted - unconfirmed
* Iran accused of crackdown, arrests of Bahais
* U.S. urges Iran not to execute condemned Bahais

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* IHRWG Condemns Crackdown on the freedom of expression

Iranian Human Rights Working Group (IHRWG) - "We remind the authorities of the Islamic Republic that it is the basic right of all Iranians to criticize and question both their leaders and their government and to freely express their opinion on both matters. The freedom of expression becomes meaningful only when it is accorded to one's opponents as well as one's supporters..."... FULL TEXT

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* Khamenei speaks on press freedom

Oct 8, (BBC) - The Iranian leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has said the press is free to criticise the leadership on any subject, provided it does not try to undermine the government. Speaking on Iranian radio, he said the state had to confront those who misused freedom of expression to try and hatch conspiracies against the government... FULL TEXT

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* Some 500 Baha'i homes raided in Iran

TORONTO, Oct. 7 (UPI) - Iranian authorities are reported to have raided more than 500 Baha'i homes across the country, seizing television sets, furniture and other items of private property. Gerald Filson, a spokesman for the Baha'i Community of Canada, said today the raids were carried out simultaneously with the arrest of 36 Baha'i academics in 14 Iranian cities last week... FULL TEXT

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* Human Rights Watch calls for release of Iranian journalist

New York, October 7, 1998 - In an open letter sent today to the Head of the Judiciary in Iran, Ayatollah Yazdi, Human Rights Watch called for the immediate and unconditional release of four journalists from the daily newspaper Tous, who were arrested on the order of a Revolutionary Court on September 16. "We fear that the real motive in jailing the four journalists is to punish them for their activities as journalists, and to intimidate other independent-minded journalists in Iran," said Hanny Megally, the Executive Director of the Middle East and North Africa Division... FULL TEXT

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* Iran reformists meet rejection

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Most reformists who sought to run for a key assembly that chooses Iran's spiritual leader -- the country's most powerful position -- have been rejected by hard-liners. The list of candidates, published Wednesday, is evidence of the overriding clout of the hard-liners in Iran's clerical government, where President Mohammad Khatami and a small group of moderates are struggling to ease social and political restrictions ... FULL TEXT

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* Hadi Khamenei's speech at rally

TEHRAN, (Hamshahri) - At a rally attended by some 3,000 outside Tehran University, Hojatoleslam Hadi Khamenei questions methods used for disqualifing Experts Assembly candidates and ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN

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* Council of Guardians rejects criticisms

TEHRAN, (Hamshahri) - The Council of Guardians has detailed its reasons for disqualifying 214 candidates for the Assembly of Experts ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN

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* Iran women's fight not feministic, says official

TEHRAN, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Iranian women's efforts to gain equal rights with men would not fit into the Western notion of feminism, a presidential adviser on women's affairs said on Wednesday. ``Our attitude towards women has fundamental differences from the extremist Western trends under the title of feminism,'' Zahra Shojaei said at a news conference, adding that Iranian women were nevertheless experiencing unprecedented social and political activity... FULL TEXT

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* Iran to appoint first woman to U.N. mission

TEHRAN, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Iran for the first time is to appoint a female diplomat to serve full-time in the Islamic republic's mission to the United Nations in New York -- but only when a vacancy appears. Fatemeh Hashemi, head of the Foreign Ministry's department of women's and social affairs, made the announcement on Wednesday but did not say who would get the job... FULL TEXT

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* "Banoo" still banned

TEHRAN, (Hamshahri) - Despite rumors that the ban on Dariush Mehrjouie's "Banoo" has been lifted, the film still has not received permission to screen, nearly five years after it was first made... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN

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* Factions face off before key election

TEHRAN, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Rival political factions faced off in the streets of Tehran on Tuesday in a prelude to an election for a powerful state body which alone can appoint and dismiss Iran's supreme leader. About 3,000 leftist Islamic students held a rally outside the gates of Tehran University to protest against the rejection by the conservative-dominated Guardian Council of some of the moderates who had signed up to run for the Assembly of Experts... FULL TEXT


* Rushdie shows at German book fair

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -- British author Salman Rushdie, who still has a $2.5 million bounty on his head for allegedly insulting Islam, showed up at the Frankfurt Book Fair late Tuesday. Rushdie walked in for the opening ceremony, at times smiling broadly as he chatted briefly with several escorts. Before Rushdie's appearance, Gerhard Kurtze, president of the German Book Publishers' Association, said if the bounty on Rushdie is lifted, Iranian publishers, who have been barred from the fair since the edict, would be welcomed back... FULL TEXT

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* Khatami confronts election body

President Khatami and his followers are regarded as liberals in Iran President Khatami of Iran is reported to have protested to an electoral body which disqualified most of his supporters from standing in a crucial election this month. No details have been released, but Mr Khatami is believed to have expressed his deep concern about the way the body screened candidates for the Assembly of Experts, a clerical council which has the power to appoint and dismiss Iran's supreme leader - currently Ayatollah Khamenei... FULL TEXT

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* Writers told not to organize, reports say

TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) -- Iran's Islamic authorities have told a group of prominent writers to give up efforts to re-activate an independent association of authors, Iranian literary sources said on Monday. An Islamic revolutionary court has in the past few days repeatedly questioned several cultural activists and writers, including the prominent novelist Houshang Golshiri, a source told Reuters... FULL TEXT

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* "Asr-e-ma" suspended for 6 months

TEHARN, Oct. 6, (IRNA) - publication of bi-weekly asr-e-ma was suspended for six months for repeated insults, the tehran public court branch 1410 announced here monday. managing director of bi-weekly, asr-e-ma, mohammad salamati, also is fined by rls 3 million for dissemination of fabrications and insults... FULL TEXT

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* Iran Panel: Rushdie Edict in Force

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- More than half the members of Iran's hard-line parliament have signed a letter saying the death edict against British author Salman Rushdie still stands. The letter, broadcast Sunday on Iranian television, was prompted by Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi's announcement last month distancing the government from the fatwa and the $2.5 million bounty placed on Rushdie's head in 1989 by a semi-official Iranian foundation... FULL TEXT

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* Death sentence against editor lifted - unconfirmed

WASHINGTON, Oct 2, (THE IRANIAN) - The death sentence against newspaper editor Morteza Firoozi has been lifted, sources in Tehran said. Judicial authorities have made no official announcement and there has been no independent confirmation. But sources close to Iran News, where Firoozi worked, said they had received word from the judiciary that Firoozi is no longer facing the death sentence. Firoozi had been condemned to death in January after being convicted of adultery and spying.


* Iran accused of crackdown, arrests of Bahais

PARIS, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Members of the Bahai faith in France accused the Iranian authorities on Friday of launching a major crackdown against Bahais in 14 cities across Iran, arresting 32 people and breaking into and looting many homes. All those arrested were professors and teachers conducting ``open-university'' type courses for young Bahais who their French fellow believers say are banned by authorities from attending universities and other institutions of higher learning, a Bahai spokeswoman in France said... FULL TEXT

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* U.S. urges Iran not to execute condemned Baha'is

WASHINGTON, Oct 1 (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday called on Iran not to execute two condemned members of the Baha'i faith, which is considered heresy by Islamic fundamentalists. The State Department issued the call after Baha'is in France said on Tuesday that death sentences had been confirmed against two of their co-religionists imprisoned in Mashhad, northeastern Iran... FULL TEXT

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PEN asks for release of Tous reporters

Our letter to you today comes with a grave sense of urgency as we are disturbed by reports that that the daily newspaper Tous was banned on September 16, 1998, on charges that it published articles in conflict with Iran's national interests and security. We are further perturbed to learn of the arrest and detention of Mahmoud Shamsolvaezin, chief editor of the newspaper, and Hamid Reza Jalaipur, director of publishing of Tous... FULL TEXT

PEN calls for Sa'idzadeh's immediate release

We write to you today about our colleague, prominent writer and legal scholar, Hojatoleslam Mohsen Sa'idzadeh who was arrested on June 30, 1998, and has remained in jail ever since. We believe that his incarceration is linked to his reformist views and writings in general, and his views pertaining to women's rights in particular... FULL TEXT


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