to an unknown detention location separated form his wife.
The Karrubi website, Sahamnews, quoted Karrubi’s wife, Fatemeh, as saying her husband was removed from the family home July 16 and has not been heard from since.
The couple was confined to their home together last February 14. Fatemeh said they were denied access to books and newspapers, allowed to walk outside the house only once and last had a family visit in July.
It wasn’t explained how Sahamnews spoke to Fatemeh unless her detention incommunicado has now ended.
The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran (ICHRI) said a “credible source” had told it that Karrubi was being worked on by a team of psychiatrists to weaken his mental state and convince him to go before a camera with a “confession.”
Karrubi is 74 years. He was one of the candidates in the 2009 presidential elections.
Meanwhile, Prosecutor General Abbas Jafari-Dolatabadi announced Saturday that the Supreme Leader had signed pardons for 100 prisoners convicted of “security offenses.” None of those released were named publicly.
The Fars news agency said “some” of those being freed had been rounded up in the disorders after the 2009 elections.
It soon became known that one of those freed was Arash Alaei, a doctor who specializes in HIV/AIDS care. (See accompanying story.)