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* Relatives of jailed writers to rally
outside courts
* Iran to launch investigation into violent anti-government
unrest
* Closed door trial over killing of dissidents enters second
day
* Treatment of non-Muslims questioned
* MP urges freedom for dissident
* Sahabi's wife protests his transfer to solitary cell
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December 28, 2000
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Wednesday
December 27, 2000
Relatives of jailed writers to rally outside courts
TEHRAN, Dec 26 (AFP) - Relatives of jailed pro-reform journalists will
stage a rally next week to protest their "illegal" detention,
the state IRNA news agency said Tuesday. It cited a statement announcing
the demonstration outside a Tehran court Monday against the "long
and illegal" detentions as well as the "ugly and inappropriate
behaviour" of judges toward relatives of the detained >>>
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Iran to launch investigation into violent anti-government unrest
TEHRAN, Dec 26 (AFP) - Iran has launched a state security council investigation
into last week's anti-government unrest in the southern region of Lamerd,
the state IRNA news agency announced Tuesday. It said the trouble erupted
Friday after a prayer leader blasted local officials over "insufficient
social services," prompting residents to interrupt a speech by the
local governor to address the complaints >>>
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Tuesday
December 26, 2000
Closed door trial over killing of dissidents enters second day
TEHRAN, Dec 25 (AFP) -The trial of 17 secret service agents accused
of killing leading dissidents resumed Monday behind closed doors. "The
second court session has opened in front of the fifth chamber of the Military
court with Judge Reza Aghihi," Mohammad-Reza Zarandi, director of
the the military courts' public relations, told AFP >>>
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Treatment of non-Muslims questioned
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's only Jewish legislator on Sunday criticized
the treatment of non-Muslims in the country, the Islamic Republic News
Agency reported. ``I call on the Muslim religious leaders and the officials
of the judiciary to pay more attention to the rights of non-Muslim families
as far as issues such as blood money and the verdicts of the courts are
concerned,'' said Maurice Motamed, the sole Jewish representative in Iran's
290-seat parliament >>>
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MP urges freedom for dissident
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - In a rare move, a member of Iran's parliament urged
authorities Tuesday to end the house arrest of the country's most prominent
dissident cleric. Legislator Mostafa Taheri Najafabadi called for the house
detention of Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri to be lifted on the
last day of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan >>>
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Sahabi's wife protests his transfer to solitary cell
TEHRAN, Dec 25 (AFP) - The wife of Iran's longtime secular political
opposition leader Ezatollah Sahabi spoke out Monday against the government's
jailing of her husband, criticising his transfer to solitary confinement.
In an open letter to President Mohammad Khatami, Zarindokht Attai said
her 75-year-old husband and Ali Afshari, a key figure in the student reformist
movement, had been transferred Sunday to single cells at Evin prison in
Tehran >>>
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Monday
December 25, 2000
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Friday
December 22, 2000
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