Iran: Opposition leaders and wives disappeared

Index Number: MDE 13/023/2011
Date Published: 28 February 2011
Categories: Iran

Iranian opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, along with their wives Zahra Rahnavard and Fatemeh Karroubi, have been subjected to an enforced disappearance. They were taken from their houses by security forces on 24 February 2011 and their whereabouts remain unknown.