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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
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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 >>>
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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 >>>
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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 >>>
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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 >>>
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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 >>>
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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 >>>
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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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