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October 16-19, 2000 / Mehr 25-28, 1379

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* Montazeri defends reformist cleric
* German politicians, scientists slam Iranian cleric's trial
* Iran spy trial lawyers sacked
* Protesters block main Iran road over water shortage
* Reformists issue joint defence of Eshkevari
* Human rights progress marred by attack on press freedom: UN
* Culture Ministry bans six weekly tabloids
* Ganji shares international Press Freedom Award

* Iran hangs two men for "sexual perversion"
* Eshkevari found guilty of apostasy, war against Islam
* A woman raped and murdered in Tehran every six days: paper
* Pro-reform lawyer files appeal on suspension from bar
* New business paper hits newsstands
* NITV signal to Iran blocked - company

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October 20, 2000

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Thursday
October 19, 2000

Montazeri defends reformist cleric

TEHRAN, Oct 19 (AFP) - Ayatollah Ali Montazeri, one-time designated successor to the founder of Islamic Iran, defended Thursday an ailing reformist cleric accused of blasphemy and possibly facing the death sentence. In a fax to the wife of Hassan Yussefi-Eshkevari, a copy of which was obtained by AFP, Montazeri, who has lived under guard in Qom, south of Tehran, since 1989, said he was "very sorry about the unfounded accusations." >>> FULL TEXT

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German politicians, scientists slam Iranian cleric's trial

BERLIN, Oct 19 (AFP) - German political, religious and scientific community leaders have joined in condemning a closed-door trial in Iran of a pro-reform cleric, Hassan Yussefi-Eshkevari, a German political foundation said here Wednesday. Eshkevari reportedly challenged, in a speech in April to a conference in Germany on the future of reforms in Iran, whether Islamic law requires women to keep their heads and bodies covered >>> FULL TEXT

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Iran spy trial lawyers sacked

Ocotber 19, (Financial Times) -- Two lawyers in the team defending 10 Iranian Jews convicted in Iran of spying for Israel have been dropped from the case, raising fears in the Jewish community about the outcome of their appeal to Iran's Supreme Court >>> FULL TEXT

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Protesters block main Iran road over water shortage

TEHRAN, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Demonstrators angered by a shortage of drinking water blocked a main road outside the Iranian capital Tehran on Wednesday, leaving thousands of motorists stranded, an evening newspaper reported. The daily Kayhan said traffic was stopped for two hours on the road connecting Tehran to the Caspian Sea coast in the protest over a disruption of water supplies to a rural housing project northeast of the capital >>> FULL TEXT

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Wednesday
October 18, 2000

Reformists issue joint defence of Eshkevari

TEHRAN, Oct 18 (AFP) - Pro-reform Iranian parties have issued a jointstatement in defence of an outspoken dissident cleric who could be facingthe death sentence at his closed-door trial, press reports said Wednesday. A coalition of supporters of President Mohammad Khatami denounced thecase against ailing cleric Hassan Yusefi-Eshkevari, whose trial by theconservative Special Court for Clergy (SCC) ended Saturday >>> FULL TEXT

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Human rights progress marred by attack on press freedom: UN

UNITED NATIONS, Oct 18 (AFP) - Progress on human rights in Iranthis year has been overshadowed, notably by attacks on press freedom anda high number of executions, according to a UN report released onTuesday. "The most dramatic and far-reaching event" of the period January 1 toAugust 15 was "the accelerating attack on the freedom of the press, whichled to the virtual closing down of the entire reformist press," it said >>> FULL TEXT

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Culture Ministry bans six weekly tabloids

TEHRAN, Oct 18 (AFP) - Iran's culture ministry has slapped a temporary ban on six weekly tabloids for repeatedly ignoring its directives, a newspaper said Wednesday. The Abrar paper said their cases had been referred to Tehran's conservative press court for a full investigation but did not specify what the violations had been >>> FULL TEXT

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Tuesday
October 17, 2000

Ganji shares international Press Freedom Award

October 11, 2000, Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE), Toronto - A journalist who was kidnapped in Colombia and another who is in jail in Iran will share the honours at this year's international Press Freedom Awards dinner in Toronto next month.

The awards by Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) recognize journalists who demonstrate a commitment to freedom of expression and who overcome enormous odds simply to produce the news >>> FULL TEXT

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Iran hangs two men for "sexual perversion"

TEHRAN, Oct 17 (AFP) - Two Iranians found guilty of "sexual perversion" have been hanged at Qom to the south of the capital, Kayhan newspaper reported Monday. The two men were hanged Sunday and Monday, the afternoon paper said, without giving details of the alleged perversion -- a term which in Iran can cover rape, adultery or homosexuality >>> FULL TEXT

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Monday
October 16, 2000

Eshkevari found guilty of apostasy, war against Islam

TEHRAN, Oct 16 (AFP) - A closed-door trial has found an ailing pro-reform Iranian cleric guilty of a battery of serious charges including apostasy and waging war against Islam, the official IRNA news agency said Monday. Hassan Yusefi-Eshkevari could now be facing the death sentence after the conservative Special Court for Clergy (SCC) found him guilty on several counts after an in-camera trial condemned by human rights groups >>> FULL TEXT

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A woman raped and murdered in Tehran every six days: paper

TEHRAN, Oct 16 (AFP) - A woman in Tehran is raped, murdered and mutilated every six days as the capital faces an escalating crisis over runaways, a government newspaper said Sunday. The Iran paper said the bodies of 30 women, some of them underage, have been found in the past six months, all of them with their faces burned and all of them victims of rape >>> FULL TEXT

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Pro-reform lawyer files appeal on suspension from bar

TEHRAN, Oct 15 (AFP) - Mohsen Rahami, a leading pro-reform lawyer said he has appealed his five-year suspension from the bar over a controversial political case, the official IRNA news agency reported on Saturday. Mohsen Rahami denounced the ruling against him as illegal and said top judge Ayatollah Mahmud Hashemi-Shahrudi had passed on the files of the case to another tribunal that investigates judicial misconduct >>> FULL TEXT

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New business paper hits newsstands

TEHRAN, Oct 15 (AFP) - A new pro-free trade business newspaper hit Tehran's newsstands on Saturday, the third press launch in Iran in a little more than a month. The Tejarat-e Azad (Free Trade) paper will be published twice a week but its directory board said it hopes to become a daily publication as soon as possible to help "take a positive step" to boost the free-trade movement >>> FULL TEXT

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NITV signal to Iran blocked - company

LOS ANGELES, Oct 13 (AFP) - The signal into Iran of a US-based Iranian television station has been blocked from that country, the French satellite transmission company broadcasting the signal says. A "rogue carrier" from Iran interrupted the signal of Los Angeles-based National Iranian TV three times since October 1, and the station's transmission has been halted since last Sunday, GlobeCast said in a statement Thursday >>> FULL TEXT

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Pro-reform parliament mulling private TV networks

TEHRAN, Oct 16 (AFP) - Iran's pro-reform parliament is studying a constitutional amendment that would permit the nation's first-ever private television networks, an MP told the official IRNA news agency Monday. Valiollah Shojapourian, deputy head of parliament's culture committee, said lawmakers were looking at ways to create channels that would be owned "by non-governmental entities and not by the people." >>> FULL TEXT

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