Iranian opposition leaders are being “protected” under house arrest for six years and would regret facing trial, a court chief says, amid calls for them to be allowed to face justice.
“A trial will bring regret for these people… because the court and the system do not joke around with anyone and do their legal duty with determination, power and precision,” says Mousa Ghazanfarabadi, the head of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court.
Quoted by the Dana news website, he was responding to renewed demands that former presidential candidates Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi finally face trial for their part in the Green Movement protests of 2009.
The protests — known as “the sedition” by hardliners — followed allegations of rigging in that year’s election, which they lost to hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
They were put under house arrest in early 2011 but have never been charged with a crime.
“Under house arrest, the heads of the sedition are protected and cared for,” says Ghazanfarabadi.
— AFP
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