Iran opposition leaders in human rights plea to UN secretary general
Source: The Guardian
Iran's opposition has urged the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, to visit political prisoners and press the regime over its human rights record during a controversial trip to Tehran for a summit of the Non-Aligned Movement this week.
Ban defied calls from America and Israel to boycott the gathering in Iran, the country's biggest international conference in three decades, which will be attended by senior officials from more than 100 nations. Another high-profile participant will be Mohamed Morsi, the first Egyptian president to visit Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution.
Not far from the summit venue in north Tehran, a number of Iranian activists are behind bars in Tehran's notorious Evin prison. The opposition hopes to use the high-profile visits to highlight the plight of political prisoners, especially the regime's treatment of opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, who have been under house arrest for more than 18 months.
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