DATE=11/23/1999
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
TITLE=IRAN DEATH SENTENCES (S-ONLY)
NUMBER=2-256464
BYLINE=SCOTT BOBB
DATELINE=CAIRO
CONTENT=

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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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