After 7 years, Iran's Green Movement leaders may be released
While the news of the likely end of the house arrest for the Green Movement leaders was welcomed, many felt that it was happening too late.
The seven-year house arrest of Iran’s Green Movement leaders appears to be coming to an end, according to Iranian media reports.
Hossein Karroubi, the son of Mehdi Karroubi, told Ensaf News that an “informed source” within the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) has approved to lift the house arrests of Mehdi Karroubi, Mir Hossein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard. Karroubi and Mousavi were the Reformist candidates in the 2009 election. They accused then incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of committing election fraud in his re-election and called for street protests, causing the most serious challenge to the Islamic Republic since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. They were put under house arrest in February 2011, though without ever being charged in a court of law.
