**Iranian pro-reform cleric Mehdi Karroubi may be prosecuted over allegations he made following post-election unrest, state media says.**Mr Karroubi had said that some of his supporters, detained after protests over the presidential poll in which he was a candidate, suffered abuse.
The case will go to a clerical court, state news agency Irna reported.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner but his challengers said the election was rigged.
Tehran prosecutor Abbas Jafari-Dolatabadi said that as Mr Karroubi was a cleric “his remarks should be studied at the special court for the clergy”.
“Some people have also been summoned in connection with the case,” he said.
‘Sexual assaults’
In August, Mr Karroubi alleged that some of his supporters had been tortured to death while being held in detention after large scale post-election protests.
He also called for an investigation into allegations that both male and female detainees were sexually assaulted and raped in prison.
Police officials have admitted that some of those held might have been tortured. In September, officials said one man died in prison after being beaten.
The allegations of rape were dismissed as “baseless” by the speaker of Iran’s parliament, Ali Larijani.
Irna did not specify which of comments Mr Karroubi’s comments were being investigated by the court.
Mr Ahmadinejad’s 12 June re-election was followed by massive street protests over alleged vote-rigging. At least 30 protesters were killed in clashes and thousands were arrested.
Most of those detained have been released, but about 200 remain behind bars and some 110 have been put on trial.
Three opposition activists were sentenced to death on Saturday for their role in the protests.
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