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Jan 2-5, 2001 / Dey 13-16, 1379

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Friday
January 5, 2001

Authorities amputate man's fingers

TEHRAN, Jan 4 (AFP) - Four fingers were cut off a man's right hand after he was found guilty of stealing, the daily Kahyan reported Thursday. Mohammad-Ali Eyvazkhani was punished in accordance with Islamic Sharia law in the Shiite holy city of Qom, south of Tehran, after he was found to be a repeat offender >>> FULL TEXT

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* Authorities amputate man's fingers
* Suspect in Iran serial murder case says not guilty
* Three more defendants confess in trial of 1998 murders
* 262 arrested during a so called "depraved" new year party in Tehran
* Four more defendants confess in murders trial
* Ganji to be moved to another cell block after murder of cellmate
* Iran begins re-trial of police chief in torture case
* Khatami government to protect political meetings in Irant

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Thursday
January 4, 2001

Suspect in Iran serial murder case says not guilty

TEHRAN, Jan 4 (Reuters) - A defendant in Iran's serial murder trial has denied active participation in the murders of dissidents in 1998, newspapers reported on Thursday. Iraj Amouzegar, the 11th of 18 defendants to stand trial, is the only one so far to deny involvement in the string of murders that shocked Iran, the newspaper Hayat-e No reported >>> FULL TEXT

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Wednesday
January 3, 2001

Three more defendants confess in trial of 1998 murders

TEHRAN, Jan 3 (AFP) - Three more defendants confessed at a closed-door trial Wednesday to involvement in the shock 1998 murders of dissidents which were blamed on "rogue" intelligence agents, state radio said. Four defendants were heard Wednesday by Tehran's military tribunal, three of whom confessed to abetting the murders of Mohammad-Djafar Pouyandeh, Mohammad-Ali Mokhtari, as well as those of Daryuah Foruhar and his wife Parvaneh Eskandari, radio added >>> FULL TEXT

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262 arrested during a so called "depraved" new year party in Tehran

TEHRAN, Jan 3 (AFP) - Police arrested 262 people overnight Sunday, including diplomats and other foreigners, during a new year party in a northern Tehran villa, the daily Dorran-e-Emruz reported Wednesday. The newspaper said Arab diplomats, one British and an Indian were among those arrested, along with more than 100 women >>> FULL TEXT

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Tuesday
January 2, 2001

Four more defendants confess in murders trial

TEHRAN, Jan 2 (AFP) - Four more defendants confessed in court Tuesday to involvement in the 1998 assassinations of several dissidents and intellectuals blamed on "rogue" secret agents, state radio reported. Three admitted to personally carrying out some of the murders and a fourth said he had supervised the killing of nationalist opposition leader Dariush Forouhar and his wife Parvaneh, it said >>> FULL TEXT

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Ganji to be moved to another cell block after murder of cellmate

TEHRAN, Jan 2 (AFP) - A judge has agreed to transfer prominent journalist Akbar Ganji from the cell block for common criminals to another block after his cellmate was murdered last week, a press report said Tuesday. "With the agreement of press court judge Said Mortazavi, Ganji will soon be transferred to another cell block," the Aftabe-Yazd paper said >>> FULL TEXT

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Iran begins re-trial of police chief in torture case

TEHRAN, Jan 1 (AFP) - Defence lawyers for a former top police chief requested a postponement Monday as his re-trial began in a Tehran military court on torture charges, sources told AFP. Former security police chief Mohammad-Reza Naqdi was already acquitted once for allegedly ordering the torture of detainees during an investigation into official corruption in Tehran >>> FULL TEXT

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Khatami government to protect political meetings in Iran

TEHRAN, Jan 2 (AFP) - President Khatami's government is currently working on a plan to protect political gatherings and meetings from extremist attacks, Interior Minister Abdolvahed Mussavi-Lari said Tuesday. "This plan is currently being studied by the interior ministry's security council", he told a news conference in Tehran, saying authorities were "determined to prevent and fight against attacks on political meetings" >>> FULL TEXT

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January 1, 2001

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