Tehran, March 01: Iranian opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi have been arrested along with their wives and jailed at Tehran’s Heshmatiyeh prison, their websites reported on Tuesday.
The two had been under house arrest after judiciary chief Ayatollah Sadeq Larijani said earlier this month they had committed “treason” and MPs demanded they be hanged.
“Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, and their wives, have been arrested and were transfered to the Heshmatiyeh prison of Tehran,” Mousavi’s website Kaleme.com reported.
“According to credible sources, the arrest and the transfer to jail is sure but the date when it occurred is still uncertain,” Kaleme.com said.
Iranian authorities had put Karroubi and Mousavi and their wives under “complete” house arrest after their supporters staged anti-government protests on February 14, their websites had said in previous reports.
News of their alleged arrest came after prosecutor general Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejeie warned in statements earlier today the opposition movement against plans to hold protests tomorrow.
“Anyone who acts against the law will be dealt with,” the prosecutor general was quoted as saying on the website of state television in reference to a call for protests aimed at demanding Mousavi and Karroubi’s release from house arrest.
Mousavi and Karroubi led a string of protests in Iran after the disputed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in June 2009 amid allegations the vote was rigged.
—PTI
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