A son says a leader of Iran's 2009 Green Movement protests will be freed from house arrest

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — One of the leaders of Iran's 2009 Green Movement protests volition beryllium released from location apprehension successful the coming weeks, his lad told authorities media Monday. However, erstwhile speculation that helium would beryllium released failed to travel true.

Mehdi Karroubi, a Shiite cleric, parliament talker and two-time statesmanlike candidate, has been held successful his location since the 2011 Arab Spring protests.

His son, Hossein Karroubi, told the state-run IRNA quality bureau that information officials told his begetter he'd beryllium freed successful aboriginal April. He did not place the officials but said Iran's judiciary had issued the order.

There was nary contiguous acknowledgement of immoderate bid concerning the octogenarian Karroubi.

Mehdi Karroubi had backed the 2009 statesmanlike candidacy of Mir Hossein Mousavi, who besides was enactment nether location apprehension successful 2011 aft calling for demonstrations successful enactment of protests successful Egypt and Tunisia during the Arab Spring. State media was ordered not to sermon them oregon amusement their images.

In 2009, Karroubi rallied the nationalist successful wide protests implicit allegations of vote-rigging successful hard-liner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s disputed reelection arsenic president. Those protests drew millions to the streets and sparked a heavy-handed information crackdown arsenic demonstrators soon demanded the overthrow of Iran's Shiite theocracy and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.