Reuters: Iran denied on Monday it had handed over to Egypt prominent militant Mustafa Hamza, leader of the Gama’a al-Islamiya group that tried to overthrow the Egyptian government in the 1990s. Hani el-Sibai, head of Egypt’s Maqrizi Centre for Historical Studies, told Reuters on Sunday Tehran handed
over Hamza to Cairo in October in exchange for information about members of an Iranian exiled group living in Egypt.
Iran denies returning Egyptian militant
Swedish Parliament draws attention to human rights violations in Iran
Iran Focus: Gothenburg, Dec. 6 – In a parliamentary conference in Stockholm last week, Swedish parliamentarians from different factions debated the growing trend of human rights violations in Iran.
Iranian students heckle Khatami
Reuters: Students, once the backbone of Iran’s reformist movement, have barracked and harangued President Mohammad Khatami, accusing him of lacking the courage to deliver promised democratic reforms in the Islamic state. “Khatami, what happened to your promised freedoms?”, “Khatami, shame on you”, “Students are wise, they detest Khatami” groups shouted as the moderate cleric attempted …
Students in northeastern Iran demonstrate outside university campus
Iran Focus: Tehran, Dec. 5 – Students from Payam University in the north eastern Iranian town of Nayshabour demonstrated outside the main university gate in protest to government crackdown.
Students also complained about the lack of welfare
opportunity and the quality of teaching.
Students give Iran’s Khatami turbulent reception
AFP: Iran’s embattled reformist President Mohammad Khatami was given a mixed reception from university students on Monday, winning some cheers but also a tirade of jeers for his record in office.
In an difficult appearence to mark national students day, the beleaguered president even complained to students — once the
main supporters of the reform movement — of being “humiliated
and destroyed”.
Iran extradites Muslim Brotherhood leader to Egypt
Jerusalem Post: The head of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mustafa Hamza, who is No. 1 on Egypt’s most-wanted list, was handed over to Egypt by Iran, Brotherhood officials in London revealed Sunday. Hamza has been the most sought after men by Egypt since the attempt to assassinate President Hosni Mubarak in Addis Ababa in June 1995, which was planned by the exiled …
Iran Hints It Sped Up Enriching Uranium as a Ploy
New York Times: Iranian officials have hinted in recent days that they sped up their enrichment of uranium in the past year to put Iran in a better position to negotiate with the West.
Iran’s embattled Khatami admits he’s wishing the days away
AFP: Iran’s embattled President Mohammad Khatami, isolated as one of the few reformists left in office, has admitted that he cannot wait until his second and final term in office ends next year. “I am counting the moments for my involvment in political affairs to be over,” he was quoted as saying during a meeting Saturday with staff from the student news agency ISNA.
Iran voices ‘concern’ over human rights in Netherlands, EU
AFP: Iran responded to fresh EU criticism of its human rights situation by saying it was concerned by what it alleged were violations in Europe and a wave of anti-Muslim sentiment in the Netherlands. “We are seriously concerned about the human rights situation in Europe,” foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told reporters.
Bam’s earthquake emergency is still not over a year after 32,000 died
Sunday Telegraph: Sekineh stumbled over the white-shrouded corpses that lined the roadside as she tried to find her way to the hospital. Minutes later, her wanderings vain, she lay down in the rubble and gave birth, her cries indistinguishable from the wails of those mourning their dead.
