“Canadian Resident Faces Death Penalty in Iran”

“Canadian Resident Faces Death Penalty in Iran”

By: Helena Zhu

Epoch Times Staff

December 16, 2010

            An Iranian-born Canadian resident has been sentenced to death in Tehran, Iran due to some “Internet offences.” According to this article, the man was accused of “insulting the sanctity of Islam” and also disrespecting national security by creating adult content websites as we is a web developer and programmer. This man’s supporters say the website which they are talking about used one of his programs with his name on it without this man’s consent. These people also claim that the judge who trialed his case told Saeed Malekpour’s lawyer that it had been Iranian Revolutionary Guards who made the decision to convict him other than the judge himself. If the evidence wasn’t enough, as explained in this article, convicting him was not a wise decision or a fair one. The fact that this man was tortured both physically and psychologically until he confessed to something he is sure he did not do is inhuman and cruel.  Also, this man was on a trip with his wife visiting his father who was sick in 2008 and has been hold in Tehran’s prison ever since. Everyone should have the right to visit another country for family purposes and if they are being convicted of something it’s better if they do it when he’s back home by a minister of foreign affairs.

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