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August 10-14, 1998 / Mordad 19-23, 1377

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* Majlis creates new press restrictions
* PEN calls for Sa'idzadeh's immediate release
* Action alert issued on kidnapping of Saremi
* PEN calls for the immediate release of Mr. Zaeri

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* U.S. eases immigration rules
* MKO accuses Tehran of killing Kurdish dissident in Iraq
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Freedom from religious persecution
* Publisher found guilty of press violations
* Iran to offer consular services to dissidents abroad
* Banned Iran paper keeps publishing
* Iran writers attacked
* Journalist stands trial for insulting late Khomeini
* Khamenei gives interior minister control of police force
* Yazdi calls for closure of "illegal" paper
* Humanitarian plea: Child May NEVER See His Family Again
* Magazine chief detained for insulting Khomeini
* No press law to stop Toos
* Pro-democracy student leader claims abuse

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* Majlis creates new press restrictions

TEHRAN (Hamshahri) - The Majlis has passed a law with ambiguous terms which would make it easy to shut down publications which publish "offensive" images or articles that defend women's rights based on "un-Islamic" principles... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN

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* PEN calls for Sa'idzadeh's immediate release

We write to you today about our colleague, prominent writer and legal scholar, Hojatoleslam Mohsen Sa'idzadeh who was arrested on June 30, 1998, and has remained in jail ever since. We believe that his incarceration is linked to his reformist views and writings in general, and his views pertaining to women's rights in particular... FULL TEXT

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* Action alert issued on kidnapping of Saremi

LONODN, aug. 12, irna - concern about the kidnapping of irna's bureau chief in afghanistan, mahmoud saremi, by taliban militia was being put on the action alert network wednesday at the request of the new york-based committee to protect journalists (cpj). it called for appeals to be made to taliban leader mullah omar to ensure that the iranian journalist is not mistreated and to be immediately released... FULL TEXT

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* PEN calls for the immediate release of Mr. Zaeri

As an international fellowship of writers dedicated to defending freedom of expression both in the United States and abroad, we write to express our concern about the arrest and imprisonment of Mohammad-Reza Zaeri, publisher of the weekly, Khaneh, on July 29, 1998. Accused of "insulting Islam, the Shiite clergy and the late Ayatollah Khomeini", as well as publishing photographs of an unveiled woman playing football, Mr. Zaeri faces a two-year prison term. The charges essentially amount to the July 15, 1998 publication of an anonymous letter criticizing the death edict against the author Salman Rushdie... FULL TEXT

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* U.S. eases immigration rules to boost `Wrestling Diplomacy' with Iran

WASHINGTON (Washington Post) - After having warmly welcomed a U.S. wrestling team to Tehran, Iranians were incensed when a dozen of their own wrestlers landed in Chicago last April only to be promptly fingerprinted and photographed at the airport by immigration officers. In a little-noticed regulation published July 17 in the Federal Register, Attorney General Janet Reno, who oversees immigration officials, allowed exemptions for "certain nonimmigrants" from four countries [including Iran] "when such action is deemed to be in the interest of foreign policy or national security."... FULL TEXT

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* MKO accuses Tehran of killing Kurdish dissident in Iraq

NICOSIA, Aug 6 (AFP) - Agents sent by Tehran have killed a member of the Iranian Kurdish opposition at a base in northern Iraq, Iran's biggest armed opposition faction, the People's Mujahedeen, said Thursday. Mohammed Heidari of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI) was gunned down late last Friday at a party base in Iraq and died the following day, the People's Mujahedeen said in a statement received here ... FULL TEXT

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* Freedom from religious persecution

NEW YORK (New York Times) - On July 21 Iran hanged a citizen who follows the small faith of Bahai, on the charge of trying to convert a man who follows the huge faith of Islam. Fifteen other Iranian Bahais have been sentenced for the same crime; seven are scheduled for hanging. The execution got four paragraphs in The New York Times; other papers gave zero. The State Department condemned the execution. But next to the story of the hanging was another, continued from the front page. Headline: "Senate Drops Bill Punishing Lands That Persecute Religion."... FULL TEXT

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* Publisher found guilty of press violations

TEHRAN, Aug 3 (Reuters) - A court on Monday found the publisher of a journalists' newspaper guilty of violating press regulations after the weekly printed a letter attacking Iran's late spiritual leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeinei. Justice Department Secretary Saeed Nobari said a press court found cleric Mohammadreza Zaeri, publisher of the weekly Khaneh (House), guilty but released him after he paid 20 million rials ($6,700). Nobari said the sentence was relatively light because of Zaeri's record and an apology to the public... FULL TEXT

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* Iran to offer consular services to dissidents abroad

TEHRAN, Aug 3 (AFP) - Iran said Monday it had started to offer consular services to dissidents living abroad, in line with new efforts to persuade Iranian exiles to return home. "All our diplomatic missions abroad are ready to provide services to Iranians, independent of their political tendencies," said Mohammad-Ali Hadi, deputy foreign minister for consular affairs... FULL TEXT

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* Banned Iran paper keeps publishing

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A pro-democracy newspaper defied two orders to shut down and began publishing under a new name Sunday, setting the stage for a clash with powerful hard-liners opposed to Iran's reformist president. The paper's editor, Mahmoud Shams, said it was published under the name Aftab'e Emrooz, or The Sun Today, with the lead story an account of an attack Saturday on the newspaper's offices by thugs believed tied to ultra-conservative politicians... FULL TEXT

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* Iran writers attacked

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Hard-liners in Iran's government banned a liberal newspaper Saturday, dealing a blow to the moderate camp of President Mohammad Khatami. Hours before the ban was served on Tous, demonstrators assaulted the newspaper's editor and two Associated Press reporters who arrived on the scene afterwards... FULL TEXT

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* Journalist stands trial for insulting late Iranian leader

TEHRAN, Aug 3 (AFP) - The director of an Iranian weekly stood trial on Monday, accused of "insulting" the late founder of the Islamic republic Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the official IRNA news agency reported. But Mohammad-Reza Zaeri, director of Khaneh (Home) magazine, said the charges arose from a "misunderstanding." "This is a misunderstanding and I ask for pardon because I never intended to insult our Imam," he told the court in a reference to the late Iranian leader... FULL TEXT

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* Iranian leader gives interior minister control of police force

TEHRAN, Aug 2 (AFP) - Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Sunday gave new Interior Minister Abdol-Vahed Musavi-Lari expanded powers by also naming him commander of the police force, the official IRNA news agency said. Khamenei made the move at the request of Musavi-Lari, who took over as interior minister late last month after his predecessor Abdollah Nuri was ousted by parliament ... FULL TEXT

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* Yazdi calls for closure of "illegal" paper

TEHRAN, July 31 (AFP) - Iran's judiciary chief Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi on Friday branded as "illegal" the return under a new name of a banned moderate newspaper which supports reformist President Mohammad Khatami. "The publication of a previously forbidden newspaper under a new name is illegal, and we are asking the culture ministry to take action before someone else does," Yazdi said during the weekly Moslem prayers at Tehran University... FULL TEXT

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* Humanitarian plea: A child With Profound Disabilities Who May NEVER See His Family Again

Iranian American Republican Council: Ali Aleaziz is a 13 year old boy who is a US citizen born in Oregon to Iranian Nationals (Farzad and Roya Aleaziz). The Immigration and Naturalization Service is trying to force Ali's parents to leave the country and abandon Ali in the United States. They are unable to take Ali with them due to his chronic and serious medical condition. Ali is a quadriplegic, has epilepsy and suffers from cerebral palsey and profound mental retardation. (see report in The Oregonian).

Ali lives at the Children's Nursing Center at Providence Child Center in Portland, Oregon, a pediatric skilled nursing facility, because at this time his family cannot manage his multiple disabilities and fragile health condition at home... FULL TEXT

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* Iranian magazine chief detained for insulting Khomeini

TEHRAN, July 29 (AFP) - Police have arrested the director of a weekly magazine for publishing "insults" about the founder of the Islamic republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran's official news agency IRNA said Wednesday. Mohammad-Reza Zaehri, a conservative cleric who heads the weekly Khaneh, was detained for "offending Islam, the Shiite clergy and Imam Khomeini and for publishing photgraphs which violate public modesty," justice ministry spokesman Said Nobari said ... FULL TEXT

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* No press law to stop Toos

ORUMIYEH (IRNA) - minister of culture and islamic guidance ataollah mohajerani said here on wednesday that the current press laws do not cover a case where the staff of a banned paper transfer to another daily. mohajerani was commenting on the 'toos' daily which has employed at least part of the staff of the recently banned controversial daily jame'e ... FULL TEXT

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* Pro-democracy student leader claims abuse

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A student leader said he was beaten and detained by security men to prevent him from speaking at a pro-democracy rally at Tehran University. Manouchehr Mohammadi said he was kicked and punched by five intelligence agents and university guards Tuesday, and then hauled away to a police station, where he was held for five hours ... FULL TEXT

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PEN calls for Sa'idzadeh's immediate release

We write to you today about our colleague, prominent writer and legal scholar, Hojatoleslam Mohsen Sa'idzadeh who was arrested on June 30, 1998, and has remained in jail ever since. We believe that his incarceration is linked to his reformist views and writings in general, and his views pertaining to women's rights in particular... FULL TEXT


Humanitarian plea: Child May NEVER See His Family Again


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