DATE=11/23/1999
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
TITLE=IRAN DEATH SENTENCES (S-ONLY)
NUMBER=2-256464
BYLINE=SCOTT BOBB
DATELINE=CAIRO
CONTENT=
VOICED AT:
INTRO: A senior judge in Iran has confirmed that
three of four individuals sentenced to death for
inciting student riots last July are to be executed.
The fourth student reportedly has been acquitted on
grounds of insanity, as we hear from Correspondent
Scott Bobb at our Middle East Bureau in Cairo.
TEXT: The chief of Iran's Revolutionary Courts,
Gholamhossein Rahbarpour, told a gathering of students
in Tehran that three of the four death sentences had
been confirmed. But he held out the possibility of a
pardon, saying if they ask for amnesty their situation
could change.
The court announced the death sentences IN September,
but denied reports by dissidents that those convicted
were students.
Scores of students were arrested during six-days of
rioting last July that erupted after authorities broke
up a protest against the banning of a reformist
newspaper. It was the worst unrest since the Iranian
revolution 20-years ago. (SIGNED)
NEB/SB/GE
23-Nov-1999 08:41 AM EDT (23-Nov-1999 1341 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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