فعاليت دلالان و كارچاق كن ها در قوه قضائيه جمهوري اسلامي، از ديد يك حقوقدان

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Summary of Iran Stories of Today's BroadcastsBehnam NateghiWednesday, January 15, 2003 Human Rights Watch Faults Factional Dispute * Human Rights Watch's Iran researcher Elaheh Shrifpour Hicks tells Radio Farda that the power struggle between the two ruling factions of the regime worsened the human rights conditions in Iran. She adds that the conservative Guardians Council has rejected more than 50 Majles bills, mostly in the fields of human rights, women's rights and the rights of minorities. She says the suspension of the death by stoning verdicts by the Judiciary was a positive move, but the judiciary should submit a bill to ban the stoning punishment for good and it must be approved by the Guardians Council after the Majles vote. She adds that the bill to match non-Muslims' blood money with that of the Muslims' was a step forward, but it ignored half of the population, women, whose blood money is still half of the men's. Also, the Bahais, Iran's largest religious minority, are not covered by it. (Bijan Farhoodi) Impact of the Expeditors and Influence-Peddlers on the Judiciary * Five months after 273 were arrested for openly selling influence in the courts, judiciary chief Ayatollah Mahmud Hashemi Shahroudi said the influence peddlers and bribe agents have ruined the judiciary. Tehran-based lawyer and human rights advocate Ahmad Bashiri tells Radio Farda that reviewing all the court orders that have been issued under the influence of the arrested expeditors and their colleagues would take many years. He adds that despite the arrests, influence peddlers continue to operate in the judiciary and people believe that they cannot get their divorce cases or financial disputes heard by a sympathetic judge before paying an expeditor. (Shireen Famili) Appeals Court Acquits Lawyer Mohsen Rohami * An appeals court acquitted human rights advocate and lawyer Mohsen Rohami, who, along with lawyer Shirin Ebadi, had been sentenced to jail and ban from practice for distributing a videotaped deposition of their client Amir-Farshad Ebrahimi about the plainclothes agents' secret organization and activities, including the raid on university dorms in 1999 and the attack on the ministers of culture and interior during an official ceremony. * Rohami's client Amir-Farshad Ebrahimi, a former member of the plainclothes agents Ansar-e Hezbollah, tells Radio Farda that his lawyers had not committed any crime by turning over his taped deposition to President Khatami's office and to the court that was prosecuting the commander of the Tehran police anti-riot squad for his men's raid on the dorms. Ebrahimi says the court had no evidence to show that the two lawyers were involved in the wide distribution of his deposition. (Alireza Taheri) Judiciary Arrests Political Weblog Writer * The Tehran judiciary agents arrested writer of the popular Rangin-Kaman (Rainbow) political weblog Javad Tavaf at his home in Tehran, according to Mehdi Habibi, a board member of the Tehran's Amir-Kabir University students' Islamic Council. He tells Radio Farda that Tavaf, an Amir-Kabir graduate and a former students' council activist, told his family in a phone call from jail that he is being well-treated. He adds that Tavaf's arrest was because had successfully created a center for news and information with his weblog. (Amir-Mosaddegh Katouzian, Prauge) ) Mediators Dissolve Tehran City Council * A committee charged with mediating between the Tehran city council and the Tehran mayor voted to dissolve the 15-member city council, 40 days short of the end of its term. An interior ministry spokesman said the council members can sue the mediation committee in courts. A Tehran city council member said the dissolution of the council, which had been mired in internal quarrel over the mayor between its members, was a blow to President Khatami, who portrays the establishment of the local councils as one of his administration's accomplishments. (Bahman Bastani) * Interior minister Abdolvahed Mussavi Lari regretted the mediation committee's decision, but said the dispute among the council members over the mayor prevented the council from holding regular meetings for a long time. (Homayoun Majd) Syrian President Cancels Iran Visit * Syrian president Bashar al-Assad cancelled his planned visit to Iran today. The cancellation was announced by an official at the President Khatami's office, who gave no reason for it. Syrian's decision must have come at the last minute, since Syria's official newspaper Tashin carries an article about the outcome of the trip. Cairo-based journalist and Persian Gulf diplomacy expert Khaled Salah, political editor of the Cairo weekly Al-Ahram-ol-Arabi, tells Radio Farda that countries in the region are rushing to find new allies, but one must not attach too much importance to the cancellation of Assad's Tehran visit. (Jamshid Chalangi) Sanandaj Court Sentences Three Kurds for Aiding Armed Activists * The Sanandaj revolutionary court sentenced Sassan Al-Kan'an, 35, to death and sent his two 30-year old co-defendants to 10 years in jail, for helping Kumeleh members, an armed political opposition group. Paris-based human rights lawyer Abdolkarim Lahiji tells Radio Farda that the court's ruling indicates that the three had only given shelter and food to a few men they did not know. (Homayoun Majd) Leftist Reformists Accuse Conservatives of Fomenting Crisis * In a statement issued on Tuesday, leftist reformist party the Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution Organization (MIRO) accused the conservatives of fomenting one crisis after another to justify their opposition to President Khatami's bills to expand presidential powers and reform the election law. It listed the ban on the daily Hayat-e Now over a cartoon of US Chief Justice Charles Huges that resembles Ayatollah Khomeini, the trial of the importers of contaminated meat, the rumor that schoolchildren's stationary was poisoned, and the judiciary's prosecution of the pollsters as examples of the conservatives' agitation. (Mahmonir Rahimi) Iran-Azerbaijan Negotiations over the Caspian Fails * Iran's Caspian affairs envoy Mohammad Safari returned home yesterday after two days of unsuccessful negotiations with Azerbaijan over the division of the Caspian resources. Tehran University political science professor Sadeq Zibakalam tells Radio Farda that the regime's animosity to the US has isolated Iran and other countries know that Iran cannot press for its demands. He adds that the Majles MPs questioned the foreign minister over the Caspian issue, but the foreign ministry does not decide Iran's foreign policy. (Amir Armin) . با وجود آنكه بيش از 5 ماه از دستگيري 273 نفر از دلالان و كارچاق كن هائي كه دستگاه قضائي را محاصره كرده بودند، مي گذرد، هنوز اقدامي براي جلوگيري از فعاليت و نفوذ آنها در قوه قضائيه صورت نگرفته است. دكتر احمد بشيري، حقوقدان و وكيل دادگستري در تهران به راديوفردا مي گويد اين يك زنگ خطر است براي دستگاه قضائي. معلوم مي شود در اين دستگاه زمينه فعاليت براي اينگونه افراد وجود دارد، لابد تعداد بيشتري هم هستند كه مشغول كار هستند و نتيجه كار آنها بي اعتبار كردن دستگاه قضائي و تضييق حقوق مردم است. وي مي افزايد دلالهاي دستگير شده به فعاليت خود در اين دستگاه اعتراف كردند و رئيس قوه قضائيه هم گفته است دلال ها دستگاه قضائيه را فرسوده كردند. وي مي گويد: فرسودگي دستگاه قضائي به اين مفهوم است كه راي هائي كه از اين دستگاه صادر مي شود، صحيح و طبيعي نيست و در بعضي، نفوذهائي براي پايمال كردن حق ديگران اعمال شده است كه رسيدگي به اين ها در مراجع فوق العاده و تجديدنظر، مدتهاي مديد به طول خواهد انجاميد.