Iranian opposition leader hospitalized after hunger strike, reports say
This photo taken on June 12, 2009 shows Iranian presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi casting his ballot at a polling station in Tehran. (Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images)/ An Iranian opposition leader who has spent years under house arrest was hospitalized early Thursday after he began a hunger strike to protest the conditions of his detention, family members and local news reports said. Mehdi Karroubi, 79, has been under stifling house arrest since 2011 when the government censured him and other opposition figures for leading popular protests ...
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