Iran eases restrictions on detained dissident - family

Former Parliament speaker and Iran's presidential election candidate Mehdi Karroubi casts his ballot during the Iranian presidential election in northern Tehran June 12, 2009.REUTERS/Chavosh Homavandi/jamejamonline

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian authorities have eased restrictions on detained opposition cleric Mehdi Karroubi, who helped lead big anti-government protests in 2009 and was put under house arrest two years later, his son said on Sunday.

Karroubi, a defeated candidate in disputed presidential elections in 2009, was moved from detention at a location in Tehran to his home in the capital's northern Jamaran area, his son, Mohammad Hussein Karroubi, said on his Facebook page.