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Ezzatollah Sahabi, 81, head of Iran's reformist Council of Nationalist-Religious Coalition, died May 1 after suffering a stroke the previous day. A former member of the Iranian parliament, he spent many years in and out of prison, both before and after the 1979 Islamic revolution, for his outspoken criticism and democratic activism. His father, Yadollah Sahabi, was an influential figure in the 1979 Iranian revolution, shortly after which the younger Sahabi was appointed a member of the Council of the Islamic Revolution. A year later, he was elected to parliament. In the early 1990s Sahabi became managing editor of the journal Iran-e Farda, which was banned during his tenure. He was sentenced to four years in prison after attending the 2000 "Iran After the Elections" conference held in Berlin. Following the disputed 2009 presidential election, Sahabi was sentenced to two years in prison, presumably for publicly supporting the opposition Green Movement. Mr. Sahabi's funeral was disrupted by the removal of his body by plain-clothes authorities and the beating and arrest of several mourners. After sustaining injuries during the funeral, his daughter, Haleh Sahabi, allegedly suffered a cardiac arrest and died. Mourners arrested at the funeral include Habibollah Peyman, a member of the Freedom Movement of Iran, political activist Hamid Ahrari, and Hamed Montazeri, grandson of the late dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali...