Iran: ‘My candidate is still in prison’ · Global Voices
Hadi Nili

Iranian parliamentary national election would be held by Friday, 2 March, but it seems there is a widespread boycott at least among most of the online Iranian users. Mamad tweets [fa]: ‘Someone came to hand me a pamphlet for a candidate. I told him that I have voted for someone two years ago and he is still in prison’. This Tehran-based user is referring to a-year-long house arrest of Mirhossein Mousavi and Mahdi Karoubi, two reformist candidates of Iran 2009 presidential election which leads to protests.