Iran: Mourners arrested on way to cleric's funeral

Index Number: MDE 13/132/2009
Date Published: 22 December 2009
Categories: Iran

At least five people, including human rights activists, have been arrested in Iran while on their way to attend the funeral of Grand Ayatollah Hosseinali Montazeri, a senior cleric who criticized the Iranian government’s crackdown on demonstrators in the aftermath of the June contested presidential elections. Their whereabouts are unknown, and they are at risk of torture or other ill-treatment.