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July 3-7, 2000 / Tir 13-17, 1379

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Friday
June 30, 2000

Iran Jews pray for accused spies

SHIRAZ, Iran (AP) - Iranian Jews converged Friday on a synagogue in the heart of this ancient city's Jewish quarter, offering prayers on the eve of a verdict for 13 Jews accused of spying for Israel. ``I'm going to pray sincerely for tomorrow, and whatever happens I accept that it is God's will,'' said Daniel Bent-Yacoub, the 14-year-old son of Javid Bent-Yacoub. Defense attorneys have said Daniel's father, a 42-year-old shop owner, testified to collecting military information for Israel but insisted his actions weren't espionage >>> FULL TEXT

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24 Iranian illegal immigrants found in eastern Croatia

ZAGREB, June 30 (AFP) - Police discovered a group of 24 Iranian illegal immigrants hidden in the back of a truck, near the eastern town of Slavonski Brod, HINA news agency reported. Nineteen adults and five children were hidden in the truck driven by a Croatian citizen, stopped by the police at the Zagreb-Lipovac highway toll booths >>> FULL TEXT

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* Iran Jews pray for accused spies
* 24 Iranian illegal immigrants found in eastern Croatia
* British MPs want Iran ties on hold over human rights
* Court starts open trial of suspended papers
* Judiciary asks for permanent closing of reformist weekly
* Church leaders urge justice for Iranian jews
* Rahami, Ebadi receive arrest warrants
* Riot squad moves in to break up demonstration
* Pressure for free press
* Judicial chief rejects calls to end newspaper closings
* Shiraz court chief insists Jews don't face death penalty
* Jailing of Iranian woman in Virginia protested
* Court orders Sahabi jailed
* Iran weighs sentence in spy trial
* 19th newspaper banned
* 110,000 sign petition to free journalists
* Student leader released on bail
* Influential cleric opposes UN document on women
* Woman gets death penalty for killing ex-husband

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Thursday
June 29, 2000

British MPs want Iran ties on hold over human rights

LONDON, June 28 (Reuters) - A majority of British members of parliament have called for London's rapprochement with Tehran to be put on hold until Iran improves its human rights record, campaigners said on Wednesday. Speaking just days before a landmark visit to Tehran by Foreign Secretary Robin Cook, they said 335 parliamentarians had signed a statement calling for political and trade relations to be conditional on Iran 's full respect for human rights >>> FULL TEXT

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Wednesday
June 28, 2000

Court starts open trial of suspended papers

TEHRAN (June 28) XINHUA - Iran on Wednesday started the first open trial of the papers and journals suspended in recent months for disparaging Islam and religious elements of the Islamic revolution. The first trial started at Branch 1410 of Tehran's Public Court, scheduled to hear the case against Mostafa Izadi, managing director of the suspended weekly "Ava" (Voice), the Islamic Republic News Agency reported >>> FULL TEXT

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Judiciary asks for permanent closing of reformist weekly

TEHRAN, June 28 (AFP) - An Iranian court asked Wednesday for the permanent closing of the pro-reform weekly Ava, which was suspended in a recent government crackdown on 13 daily newspapers and five other periodicals, the official IRNA news agency reported. "Ava's director and journalists must be punished and its authorization to publish must be permanently annulled," the press court prosecutor, Ali Asghar Tashakori, said in the first hearing of a string of cases against the suspended publications >>> FULL TEXT

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Church leaders urge justice for Iranian jews

LONDON, June 27 (Reuters) - Christian and Jewish church leaders in Britain urged Iran on Tuesday to ensure that 13 Jews charged with spying for Israel receive ``just and transparent'' treatment by the court. The verdict on the Iranian Jews is expected to be delivered next Saturday, according to the head of the judiciary in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz >>> FULL TEXT

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Tuesday
June 27, 2000

Rahami, Ebadi receive arrest warrants

Tehran, June 28, IRNA -- Tehran's Public Court here on Wednesday afternoon issued arrest warrant for two reformist lawyers Mohsen Rahami and Shirin Ebadi. Rahami was the defense lawyer of the students in the case of last July Tehran University dormitory incident and former interior minister Abdullah Nouri and Shirin Ebadi is a lawyer >>> FULL TEXT

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Riot squad moves in to break up demonstration

TEHRAN, June 27 (AFP) - Some 3000 women burned tires and blocked a main road southwest of Tehran Tuesday in protest at poor living conditions >>> FULL TEXT

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Pressure for free press

TEHRAN, Iran ­­ Iran's supreme leader urged the conservative judiciary Tuesday not to yield to reformist pressure for greater press freedom. In a statement broadcast on state radio, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told judges that they had to punish criminals irrespective of their political affiliations >>> FULL TEXT

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Judicial chief rejects calls to end newspaper closings

TEHRAN, June 28 (AFP) - Iranian judicial chief Ayatollah Mahmud Hashemi-Shahrudi has rejected calls from parliament to stop shutting down newspapers, a response reformers say is "unacceptable." Shahrudi, in a letter read to parliament Tuesday, said the judiciary's decision to close down more than a dozen newspapers was "independent and made without bias." >>> FULL TEXT

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Shiraz court chief insists Jews don't face death penalty

TEHRAN, June 26 (AFP) - The head of the Shiraz judiciary insisted Monday that 13 Jews awaiting judgement there for alleged spying for Israel did not face the death penalty. "The defendants are only accused of acts against national security and the charge of 'mohareb' (waging war against God) has been dropped, hence they would not face capital punishment," the official IRNA news agency quoted Hossein-Ali Amiri as saying >>> FULL TEXT

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Jailing of Iranian woman in Virginia protested

WASHINGTON (AP) - A bipartisan group of House members is protesting detention of an Iranian woman jailed in Virginia two months after she was deported from Canada as a former commander of an alleged terrorist group. Mahnaz Samadi, who gained political asylum in the United States five years ago after she was imprisoned and tortured in Iran, is being held by the Immigration and Naturalization Service in a jail in Hopewell, Va. She is accused in immigration documents of preparing rebel units under her command for ``coordinated attacks designed to liberate Iran.'' >>> FULL TEXT

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Monday
June 26, 2000

Court orders Sahabi jailed

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A hard-line Iranian court ordered a leading dissident imprisoned Monday, continuing its crackdown on journalists and reformists demanding greater freedoms. Ezatollah Sahabi, the editor of a magazine among 19 pro-democracy publications banned since April, was reportedly detained in connection with a conference he attended in Germany >>> FULL TEXT

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Iran weighs sentence in spy trial

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A local prosecutor said Monday the death penalty could not be handed down against 13 Iranian Jews accused of spying for Israel, though the hard-line cleric who is the nation's top prosecutor has said the accused face hanging. Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency quoted local prosecutor Hossein Ali Amiri as saying Monday that if the charge of moharebeh, or fighting against God and the state, ``is not brought, there is no question of a death sentence.'' >>> FULL TEXT

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19th newspaper banned

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's hard-line judiciary closed another reformist newspaper Sunday and defended its media crackdown as a way of upholding the country's Islamic principles. Bayan became the 19th newspaper ordered to shut down in the past two months. Its closure coincided with a Tehran Justice Ministry statement responding to a letter from 151 lawmakers that had urged an end to such measures, saying they had tarnished Iran's reputation at home and abroad >>> FULL TEXT

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110,000 sign petition to free journalists

TEHRAN, June 26 (AFP) - A petition signed by 110,00 people, mostly students, calling for the release of jailed journalists has been presented to the Iranian judiciary, an Islamic student association in Tehran told AFP Monday. The petition was submitted late Sunday to the head of the country's court system, Ayatollah Mahmud Hashemi Shahrudi, according to a representative of the association of Tehran University's faculty of literature and humanities >>> FULL TEXT

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Student leader released on bail

TEHRAN, June 25 (AFP) - A pro-reform Iranian student leader who has been imprisoned for nearly two months was set free Sunday on 62,000 dollars bail, state authorities said. Ali Afshari, a leader of the Office for Consolidation and Unity student group, was detained April 30 for attending an academic conference in Berlin that Iranian authorities judged "anti-Islamic.">>> FULL TEXT

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Influential cleric opposes UN document on women

TEHRAN, June 24 (AFP) - An influential Shiite cleric has denounced Iran's ratification of a UN document that encourages more education for girls and condemns violence against women. "I say it very clearly that it is religiously forbidden to adhere to these documents," Ayatollah Nasser Makarem-Shirazi told the Saturday edition of Yalessarat, a conservative weekly >>> FULL TEXT

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Woman gets death penalty for killing ex-husband

TEHRAN, June 24 (AFP) - Iran's Supreme Court Saturday upheld a lower court's execution order for a women convicted of murdering her ex-husband after he beat the couple's children, the Tehran press reported. Soussan Hajirian, 42 years old, was found guilty of the 1996 murder of her ex-husband, with a solid cooking dish following a violent altercation >>> FULL TEXT

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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

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