Arrested senior pro-reform and two activists sentenced to jail.
Tehran, May 16 .- The Iranian police have arrested the spokesman of the reformist opposition platform "Mujahedeen of the Islamic Revolution," Mohsen Armin, just three weeks to commemorate the first anniversary of the controversial election victory of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad .
The official opposition has been accused of "crimes against national security", explained today the Attorney General of Tehran, Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi, tera gold, was quoted by the Mehr news agency.
The news had been brought forward by one of the children of Armin, told the website "parlemannews.ir", akin to the reformist opposition movement denounced electoral fraud in the presidential elections on June 12.
"This morning, my father left home but returned minutes later accompanied by several officers who searched the entire house with a court, buy aion kinah, order in hand. They took my father, his computer and some documents," said the son, whose name was not revealed.
For its part, labor news agency ILNA reported that a revolutionary court has sentenced in absentia to imprisonment paths to two well-known human rights activists in Iran.
According to Mohamad Mustafi, activist lawyer Shadi Sadr,, sto credits, this has been sentenced to six years in prison and 74 lashes for violating national security, cause public disorder and disrespect for police authority.
Mustafi also added that his client, the activist women's rights Abasgholi Mahbub has been sentenced to two and a half years in jail and 30 lashes after being convicted for causing public disorder.
Both sentences can be appealed to a maximum period of 20 days, he added.
The arrest and sentencing to occur than a month that commemorates the anniversary of the disputed election that plunged Iran into one of the worst political and social crisis in the Islamic Republic 31 years.
Hundreds of thousands took to the streets then to protest the Ahmadienyad triumph, and about one hundred have since been tried and sentenced to jail and even to the gallows.
Weeks ago, the opposition denounced the start of a campaign of intimidation by the authorities to call for further demonstrations.