Thousands turn out for funeral of Iranian dissident

Thousands of mourners on Monday attended the funeral of Iran's top dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, websites said, amid reports proceedings were violently disrupted by hardliners.
Opposition website Rahesabz.net said "tens of thousands of people" were attending the funeral of Montazeri, an inspiration to Iran reformists and human rights activists, who died aged 87 on Saturday.