Sprint Long Distance


email us

Alefba

Fly to Iran

US Transcom
US Transcom

Farshchian

Advertise with The Iranian

Human Rights
June 12-16, 2000 / Khordad 23-27, 1379

News | Sports | Arts | Business| Community

HUMAN RIGHTS NEWS INDEX

Friday
June 16, 2000

Guardian Council throws out two elections

TEHRAN, June 16 (AFP) - Iran's election watchdog group has thrown out the second-round elections of two reformists, bringing to 11 the number of seats for which a new round of voting will need to be held, Iran's official IRNA news agency said Friday >>> FULL TEXT

Go to top

Index

* Guardian Council throws out two elections
* Student leader summoned
* Amnesty International: Annual Report 2000
* Jews spy trial proceedings end

* Authorities search reformists' homes: report
* Call for release of Berlin detainees
* Iranian Jews recant on their "confessions": defense

* Jews' trial nears end
* New pro-reform daily begins publication in Iran
* Reformists seek press freedoms
* Students protest majlis win annulment
* Directors of banned dailies to appear in court

News | Sports | Arts | Business| Community


Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday


Get Persian fonts from Hamshahri or Payvand


email us

Thursday
June 15, 2000

Student leader summoned

June 15, 2000 (The Public Relations of the Islamic Association of University Students and Alumni) -- Mr. Heshmatollah Tabarzadi is summoned to court! Mr. Hesmatollah Tabarzadi, the Secretary General of the Islamic Association of University Students and Alumni [of Iran], has been charged and summoned to court at 10 a.m. on Saturday, June 19, 2000, by the 26th branch of the revolutionary court >>> FULL TEXT

Go to top

Wednesday
June 14, 2000

Amnesty International: Annual Report 2000 on Iran

Issues relating to freedom of expression dominated the year. Journalists began to address in print the political, economic and social problems facing Iran and broached issues that had previously been taboo. As the year progressed, a pattern of intimidation, harassment and administrative detention emerged as a mechanism for silencing a range of opinion >>> FULL TEXT

Go to top

Jews spy trial proceedings end

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Courtroom proceedings in the trial of 13 Iranian Jews accused of spying for Israel have ended and the defense has completed its work, a senior judicial official said Wednesday. ``There will be no more court hearings,'' Hossein Ali Amiri, the judiciary chief of Fars province, where the Jews are being tried, said on Iranian radio >>> FULL TEXT

Go to top

Authorities search reformists' homes: report

TEHRAN, June 14 (AFP) - The homes of three reformist journalists, including the imprisoned Akbar Ganji, were searched under orders of a revolutionary tribunal, the pro-reform newspaper Bayan said Wednesday >>> FULL TEXT

Go to top

Call for release of Berlin detainees

Tehran (Bahar) -- About a hundred academics in the Middle East, Europe and the U.S., including Noam Chomsky, have a written a letter to Judiciary chief Shahroudi calling for the release of those who were detained because of their participation in the Berlin conference >>>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN

Go to top

Tuesday
June 13, 2000

Iranian Jews recant on their "confessions": defense

SHIRAZ, Iran, June 13 (AFP) - Several of the 13 Iranian Jews accused of spying for Israel recanted Tuesday on their public confessions during their trial in the southern city of Shiraz, saying they had been extracted under duress, a defense lawyer said. "Some defendants have said the confessions were made at the demand of (government) agents," said defense spokesman Ismail Nasseri on leaving the court after the latest session of the trial. "Some of them do not remember the events." >>> FULL TEXT

Go to top

Jews' trial nears end

SHIRAZ, Iran (AP) - A judge introduced new evidence Tuesday as the trial of 13 Iranian Jews accused of spying for Israel drew to a close, lawyers said. Defense attorney Karim Sadeghi said his team had seen the fresh evidence, which couldn't be disclosed for security reasons. ``What I can say is that it was wholly unconvincing, and we found little that was new in it,'' he said >>> FULL TEXT

Go to top

Monday
June 12, 2000

New pro-reform daily begins publication in Iran

TEHRAN, June 11 (AFP) - A new pro-reform newspaper run by the brother of Iran's supreme spiritual guide Ali Khameini hit Tehran newsstands Sunday, more than a month after most reformist publications were shut down by the government >>> FULL TEXT

Go to top

Reformists seek press freedoms

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - In a bid to fulfill the promises that helped them win parliamentary elections, more than 100 reformist lawmakers have drafted a bill calling for lifting restrictions on media imposed by their predecessors, a lawmaker said Monday. ``Press freedom is the first priority of the new Majlis (parliament),'' Rajabali Mazrouie, a journalist and leading reformist lawmaker, told The Associated Press >>> FULL TEXT

Go to top

Students protest majlis win annulment

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Dozens of Iranian students from the central city of Arak demonstrated in front of Parliament here Sunday to protest the annulment of a reformist candidate's win in run-off legislative elections, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported >>> FULL TEXT

Go to top

Directors of banned dailies to appear in court

TEHRAN, 12 June (AFP) - Directors of several banned reformist dailies, including the brother of the Iranian president, Mohammad-Reza Khatami, will appear before the press court "in two weeks," the Head of Iran's Judiciary Abbassali Alizadeh announced Monday >>> FULL TEXT

Go to top


Copyright © Abadan Publishing Co. All Rights Reserved. May not be duplicated or distributed in any form

 MIS Internet Services

Web Site Design by
Multimedia Internet Services, Inc

 GPG Internet server

Internet server by
Global Publishing Group.

Rights

In the name of the pen
Home of Iranian writers and journalists

Regular news updates

Journalists

Iran Country Report

As of December 31, 1998 (Committee to Protect Journalists) - Since President Muhammad Khatemi took office in August 1997, Iran's press has benefited from his agenda of social and political reforms. Newspapers are now tackling political subjects that would have been unthinkable only a year earlier. But almost as quickly as journalists realized their new freedoms, the press found itself the target of a relentless attacks from hard-line supporters of Iran's spiritual guide Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ... FULL TEXT

Missing

Missing: Pirouz Davani

A special web page has been created for Pirouz Davani, a political activist who left his home in Tehran on the 25th of August 1998 and has not been heard from since. On the 27th of August foreign radio stations quoted reports that he had been arrested ... GO TO WEB SITE

Feature

Stoning

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

Bookmark

* Iranian Human Rights Working Group (IHRWG)

* Amnesty International

* Human Rights Watch

* PEN American Center

* United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights


For the latest news visit
THE IRANIAN
Newsroom


THE IRANIAN
By the way section


email us