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Codir joins calls for the release of incarcerated opposition leaders in Iran
Freedom now for former PM Mir-Hossein Mousavi and other political prisoners
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks in a meeting with a group of defense officials, in Tehran, Iran, February 12, 2025
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COMMITTEE for Defence of Iranian Peoples Rights (Codir) has been following, with growing concern, the developments under way inside Iran pertaining to protests and rallies that have been ongoing since Friday February 14.
This date marks the 14th anniversary of the incarceration under house arrest of three of the country’s major opposition figures: former prime minister and presidential candidate, Mir-Hossein Mousavi; his wife, prominent academic Dr Zahra Rahnavard; as well as senior reformist clergyman and another former presidential candidate, Mehdi Karroubi.
On Thursday, February 13, a large protest in front of the University of Tehran was broken up by regime security forces and dozens were detained. Security forces and agents from the Islamic Republic’s Ministry of Intelligence had already moved to arrest several figures, all central members of the Campaign to Lift the House Arrest, a reference to the continuing detention of Mousavi, Rahnavard, Karroubi and his wife, Fatemeh Karroubi.
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