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Iranian Opposition: Police Arrest 7 at Funeral of Mousavi's Father

   VOA News  March 31, 2011
   Iranian reformist leader Mir Hossein Mousavi (file photo)

Photo: AP

   Iranian reformist leader Mir Hossein Mousavi (file photo)

   An Iranian opposition website says security forces have arrested at
   least seven people attending a funeral for the father of reformist
   leader Mir Hossein Mousavi.
   Mousavi's website [1]Kaleme.com says Iranian security personnel
   deployed in large numbers outside Mousavi's home in the capital,
   Tehran, as mourners gathered for Thursday's funeral.
   It says a confrontation erupted when police in plain clothes took
   possession of the coffin of Mousavi's father, Mir Esmaeil, and placed
   it in an ambulance for transfer to a burial ceremony.
   Kaleme.com says mourners protested the action and Iranian security
   forces responded by beating them and arresting at least seven.
   Another website with close ties to Mousavi, Rahesabz.net, says Iranian
   authorities allowed him to visit his father's house late Wednesday to
   say his "last farewell." The elder Mousavi died Wednesday.
   Opposition websites say Mir Hossein Mousavi and his wife have been in
   government custody since February 14, when supporters of prominent
   reformists staged protests that drew a swift crackdown from
   authorities.

   Some information for this report was provided by AFP.
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