[AdmSmith]

Iran's Revolutionary Court Sentences Nationalist-Religious Activist
Apr 17, 2004, 09:11

Marzieh Mortazi Langeroudi appeared before Bench 26 of the Revolutionary Court Wednesday after being subpoenaed.

At her court hearing she was charged with "action against national security by participating in the Nationalist-Religious Council" and "propaganda against the Islamic system by signing a declaration and by her participation in the Combatant Muslims' Movement".

She was later sentenced to one year in jail. However, because of her gender, her sentence was reduced a three-year suspended jail term.
http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_2062.shtml

Question: Do you have any info on the Combatant Muslims'Movement?

[AdmSmith]

IRAN'S NEWEST AIRPORT REMAINS UNUSABLE.

Nearly three months after its grand inauguration by President Hojatoleslam Mohammad Khatami and other Iranian and foreign dignitaries, the Imam Khomeini International Airport remains unusable, Radio Farda reported on 14 April. Construction of the facility cost some $500 million, but the work is substandard and the airport does not conform to international standards, the station reported. The original engineers quit after the Foundation of the Dispossessed and Disabled (Bonyad-i Mostazafan va Janbazan) took over management of the project. The foundation changed many of the original specifications, so that now the runways must be repaved, neither the electrical power nor the runway lighting function properly, and the aircraft-refueling equipment is inadequate. BS

source: RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 8, No. 70, Part III, 15 April 2004

comment: The Bonyads should be taxed to death.

[F14 Pilot]

Tabriz University Students Given 30 Lashes in Iran

Persian Journal
April 17th, 2004

Two Tabriz University students received 30 lashes each by the order of the Revolutionary Court. They were both convicted for their part in last May-June university unrest.

The two students had twenty days to appeal the court's verdict, but they insisted that their sentences be carried out. Six other students have also been summoned to court.

http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_2061.shtml