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* Lawyers disbarred, militant given
two years
* Conviction of Iranian lawyers condemned
* Reformist-run Iran body blames hardliners for riot
* Guards, militia implicated in Khorramabad unrest
* Fallahian to be questioned over serial killings
* Women may be allowed to study abroad
* Majlis warns students against "traps" by hardliners
* Are returning Afghan refugees properly protected?
* Press court convicts two press chiefs, clears two
* Khatami warns students against extremism
* Reformists call for 'quiet' struggle on campus
* Iran was seen freeing some jailed Jews-U.S. sources
* Defence for Iran Jews in spy case says any appeal delayed
* Wife of Iran journalist says she was blocked from prison
visit: report
* Paper publishes appeal from child
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September 29, 2000
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Thursday
September 28, 2000
Lawyers disbarred, militant given two years
TEHRAN, Sept 28 (AFP) - A suspected Iranian militant was given two years
in prison in a controversial case over a videotape in which he claimed
dissent among Iran's leadership, a government-run paper said Thursday.
Meanwhile, two leading pro-reform lawyers who had been suspected of helping
make and distribute the tape were given suspended sentences but each slapped
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Conviction of Iranian lawyers condemned
September 28, 2000, New York (HRW)--Human Rights Watch today condemned
the conviction by a court in Tehran of two Iranian human rights lawyers
on charges of defamation and disseminating false information. Mohsen Rahami
and Shirin Ebadi were both given suspended prison sentences of fifteen
months and banned from practicing law for five years by Court Branch 16
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Reformist-run Iran body blames hardliners for riot
TEHRAN, Sept 27 (Reuters) - A reformist-run Iranian state security body
on Wednesday blamed Revolutionary Guards and other hardliners for the bulk
of last month's bloody unrest in the western city of Khorramabad, Iran's
news agency IRNA reported. The National Security Council, headed by moderate
Interior Minister Abdolvahed Mousavi-Lari, also said in a report that more
than 60 police and security force members were injured, several by gunshots,
in the city's riots, IRNA said. It did not refer to injuries among civilians
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Wednesday
September 27, 2000
Guards, militia implicated in Khorramabad unrest
TEHRAN, Sept 27 (AFP) - Iran's National Security Council said Wednesday
that government troops and Islamic militia played an illegal role in the
deadly unrest which marred a pro-reform student meeting last month, the
state news agency IRNA reported >>>
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Fallahian to be questioned over serial killings
TEHRAN, Sept 27 (AFP) - The head of Iranian intelligence during the
1998 murders of several dissidents and intellectuals has been asked to
appear before parliament about the case, the state news agency IRNA said
Wednesday. Ali Fallahian has been invited to "discuss" the killings,
which authorities blamed on "rogue" intelligence agents, before
parliament's national security committee, it said >>>
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Women may be allowed to study abroad
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - After heated debate, reformist lawmakers voted Wednesday
to lift a ban on unmarried Iranian women studying abroad. The measure -
which passed 137-74 - now goes to the hard-line Guardian Council, which
must approve it for the bill to become law. The parliament debate and vote
were broadcast live on Tehran radio >>>
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Majlis warns students against "traps" by hardliners
TEHRAN, Sept 27 (AFP) - The Iranian parliament on Wednesday warned students
not to let hardliners draw them into more violence that could harm President
Mohammad Khatami's reform movement. The reform-majority legislature, in
a statement carried by the state news agency IRNA, said the current situation
was "extremely sensitive" after days of riots marred a pro-reform
student meeting last month >>>
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Are returning Afghan refugees properly protected?
Sept 26, (Amnesty International) -- Afghan refugees in Iran should not
be returned to Afghanistan against their will or where they are at risk
of human rights abuses, Amnesty International said today. "The international
community is labouring under the illusion that some areas in Afghanistan
are safe for the return of Afghan refugees. This ignores the reality that
frontlines change quickly and ethnic tension can flare up at short notice,"
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Tuesday
September 26, 2000
Press court convicts two press chiefs, clears two
TEHRAN, Sept 26 (AFP) - Tehran's press court cleared two newspaper directors
and found two others guilty on a variety of charges, the official IRNA
news agency said Tuesday. The sentences for those found guilty had yet
to be announced following the hearings for the four on Monday, it said,
adding that the jury had recommended leniency in both cases >>>
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Monday
September 25, 2000
Khatami warns students against extremism
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami on Monday pleaded
for patience from students increasingly dissatisfied with the sluggish
pace of reform and urged the clerical leadership to move with the times.
Khatami was swept to power in 1997 promising reform, but with presidential
polls looming next year, the mid-ranking cleric has little to show for
his efforts. He painted a picture of the Islamic Republic embattled between
two extremes
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Reformists call for 'quiet' struggle on campus
TEHRAN, Sept 24 (AFP) - Iranian reformists repeated their appeal for
calm as university students prepare for the new academic year Monday after
deadly unrest marred a meeting of pro-reform students last month. The Islamic
Iran Participation Front (IIFP), headed by President Mohammad Khatami's
brother Mohammad-Reza, urged students to continue their policy of "active
calm" in a statement carried by state news agency IRNA late Saturday >>> FULL
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Iran was seen freeing some jailed Jews-U.S. sources
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Instead of just reducing sentences on 10 Iranian
Jews convicted of spying for Israel, Iran privately signaled it would free
several of them during negotiations with Western diplomats, U.S.-based
Jewish sources said Friday. The sources, who had been kept apprised of
the behind-the-scene negotiations, said that several of the Jews sentenced
to between four and 13 years in prison had been expected to be released
on the basis of time already served and that the others were to have their
sentences reduced >>>
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Defence for Iran Jews in spy case says any appeal delayed
TEHRAN, Sept 24 (AFP) - Defence lawyers for the 10 Iranian Jews convicted
of spying for Israel said Sunday they cannot work on filing another appeal
until last week's ruling is formally delivered. Defence spokesman Ismail
Nasseri told AFP that Thursday's appeals court decision, which upheld the
convictions but cut the prison terms of each man by at least two years,
had yet to be handed over to the defence team >>>
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Wife of Iran journalist says she was blocked from prison visit: report
TEHRAN, Sept 25 (AFP) - The wife of a leading pro-reform journalist
imprisoned in Iran said she was blocked from visiting her husband for the
first time since his arrest five months ago, according to a report Sunday.
The wife of Akbar Ganji, who was arrested in April, told the student news
agency ISNA that she and his mother were supposed to have been allowed
to visit him on Saturday >>>
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Paper publishes appeal from child of imprisoned journalist
TEHRAN, Sept 24 (AFP) - Calls to release Iran's imprisoned journalists
took an emotional turn Sunday when a paper published an open letter to
President Mohammad Khatami from the young child of one of its writers.
Eight-year-old Puya Zeid-Abadi, whose letter was published along with his
photo in the Hamshahri newspaper, said he did not understand why his father
Ahmad Zeid-Abadi was not at home any more >>>
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