TEHRAN (AFP) - A revolutionary Iranian court has convicted 10 Iranian reformists in connection with their attendance at an "un-Islamic" political gathering in Germany last year, state radio said Sunday.
Other defendants have been cleared of the charges and all the verdicts will be announced formally on Monday, it said, citing the head of the Tehran province judiciary, Abbasali Alizadeh.
The April conference in Berlin on the future of reform in Iran, attended by several close allies of President Mohammad Khatami, was aimed at overthrowing the clerical regime, the courts charged in December.
Conservatives were outraged after state television repeatedly broadcast "un-Islamic" footage from the seminar showing a man disrobing in protest and a woman dancing with bare arms.
The conference, which was disrupted by the Iranian opposition, was held to consider the future of the reform movement after reformists won control of parliament in February's legislative elections.
Charges that the gathering was a threat to national security and intended to topple the regime could bring long-term prison sentences for those convicted.
Among the people charged in the case are dissident cleric Hassan Yussefi-Eshkevari, a close Khatami ally accused of apostasy, and journalist Akbar Ganji, who has accused top officials in the regime of being behind the 1998 assassinations of several dissidents.
A translator at the German embassy in Tehran is also being accused of plotting against the regime in connection with the seminar.
Last month, Alizadeh was quoted as saying that one of the defendants, Jamileh Kadivar, wife of former culture minister Ataollah Mohajerani, would be acquitted.
