Iran moves to execute Iranian-Canadian

**DisgruntledGoat** · February 17, 2012, 07:58 AM

So in another move clearly designed to aggravate western nations currently enforcing sanctions on Iran, the Iranian court system has begun the process that makes Saeed Malekpour's hanging "imminent."

Saeed, a Iranian-Canadian was arrested in 2008 while visiting his dying father for "Corrupting the Earth." Alleged to have been running a website that contained pornography he was arrested by the Revolutionary Guard, tortured and placed in solitary confinement. Then after that sentenced to death and has spent that last four years in Iranian prisons awaiting his execution.

Since Malekpour was sentenced to death two years ago, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, which made the charges against him, has publicized the web programmer’s case as an example to Iranians who use the Internet to criticize the clerical regime or violate its stringent moral code.

Malekpour, who is based in Canada but was arrested during a visit to his dying father in 2008, was accused of masterminding a network of porn websites, a charge he and his family have denied. The Revolutionary Guard reportedly subjected him to months of torture and solitary confinement to obtain a videotaped forced confession.

A letter from Malekpour’s family to UN human rights commissioner Navi Pillay said that “two days ago, when lawyers visited the Revolutionary Court to follow up on his case file, they discovered it was no longer there. (They) were informed that this only meant the file was sent to the Circuit Court for Execution of Sentences.”

Iran has executed hundreds of people in the past year. The rate has accelerated as parliamentary elections approach on March 2. Human rights groups say that few, if any, of the condemned have received proper judicial process.

Malekpour’s lawyers have been unable to review his case file or defend him in court. Nor were they able to bring expert witnesses who could prove his innocence. He and his family maintain that any uploading of pornographic images to websites he designed was done without his knowledge.

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/ar...n-outrage?bn=1

This is just another example of why any Iranian dual citizens should stay the

away from Iran. Unfortunately I doubt my government will be able to save his life. It really seems that, as the article states, executions and death sentences are being stepped up in a clear political move to suppress the populous and prepare them to vote the correct way.

**Rolling Thunder** · February 17, 2012, 08:03 AM

Barbarous Islamists threaten to execute citizen of NATO member?

I call that a declaration of war. Babur, telegraph Lord Kitchener.

**Sir Winston Churchill** · February 17, 2012, 08:36 AM

It truly is barbaric. I always get a chuckle for the reasons they execute people, porn.

Rick Santorum must be Iranian.

**Prosaic Visitant** · February 17, 2012, 05:30 PM

Originally Posted by Weary One

It truly is barbaric. I always get a chuckle for the reasons they execute people, porn.

Rick Santorum must be Iranian.

So, Santorum and not Obama is the closet Muslim in American politics.

Originally Posted by Babur

Perhaps this is another false accusation against Iranians with dual citizenship?

How dare you insinuate that a tyrannical regime would ever go as low as throwing petty claims at people, forcing them to plead guilty via torture, give them a shoddy trial and then sentencing them to execution all in the name of grand-standing.

How dare you.

Originally Posted by Sphere

I think these people should have a nuclear arsenal. It is only fair.

Well, we let NK and Pakistan have them, so why not this regime?

**Babur** · February 17, 2012, 11:27 AM

Originally Posted by Rolling Thunder

I call that a declaration of war. Babur, telegraph Lord Kitchener.

Will do Sahib

Perhaps this is another false accusation against Iranians with dual citizenship?

**Rolling Thunder** · February 17, 2012, 11:32 AM

Originally Posted by Babur

Perhaps this is another false accusation against Iranians with dual citizenship?

Of course it is. You can't trust these Bedouins. Treacherous camel-botherers to a man,

**~~John ''True Grit'' Wayne~~** · February 17, 2012, 09:59 AM

Guy breaks law guy gets punished.If you cant do the time dont do the crime.

**Rome101** · February 17, 2012, 10:51 AM

Sarcasm much? (hopefully)

**Sir Winston Churchill** · February 17, 2012, 11:02 AM

Originally Posted by Rome101

Sarcasm much? (hopefully)

It's Tom Cruise, self-explanatory.

**~~John ''True Grit'' Wayne~~** · February 17, 2012, 11:05 AM

We should respect the law of the land

You do not see me wearing a mankini into a church.
You do not see me going into Israels airport dressed as Hitler.
No coz you know what will happen.
This man knows porn is outlawed in these countrys so you obey the law.If he is stupid enough to commit the crime no matter how ludicras it seems to us he has to take his whack.
Jesus could he not have just slept with a sheep as is customary in that place.He would not have been arrested then.

**DisgruntledGoat** · February 17, 2012, 11:52 AM

Originally Posted by Tom Cruise

We should respect the law of the land

You do not see me wearing a mankini into a church.
You do not see me going into Israels airport dressed as Hitler.
No coz you know what will happen.
This man knows porn is outlawed in these countrys so you obey the law.If he is stupid enough to commit the crime no matter how ludicras it seems to us he has to take his whack.
Jesus could he not have just slept with a sheep as is customary in that place.He would not have been arrested then.

Ummm, he create his photography sharing website in Canada, while visiting relatives in Iran he was arrested for pornography being posted on his website. A crime called "Corrupting the Earth" in Iran. Iranian courts refused to hear witnesses that would prove that the pornography was uploaded without his knowledge. They also tortured him to get a confession. All for creating a web tool IN CANADA that can be viewed on the internet in Iran. Ya he broke the law of the land all right...

This is the same as say going to a bar in another country not have any alcohol, going back to a country that prohibits alcohol and being arrested for alcohol consumption. I can't decide which recent case is worse. This one or the game developer being accused as a traitor because he served in the marines as an American citizen.

**Bobz** · February 17, 2012, 11:10 AM

Really why Iran is not going to invoke any sympathy from the civilised countries of the world.

I do feel sorry for the perfectly decent Iranian people living under such barbaric leaders.

**~~John ''True Grit'' Wayne~~** · February 17, 2012, 11:13 AM

Originally Posted by Bobz

Really why Iran is not going to invoke any sympathy from the civilised countries of the world.

I do feel sorry for the perfectly decent Iranian people living under such barbaric leaders.

So do i but who helped them into power us in the west.

Would you drink alcohol and read porn in the local Iranian park???
No coz you are not retarded nor am i most of the time so the guy deserves what he gets its Darwins survival of the fittest.

**~~John ''True Grit'' Wayne~~** · February 17, 2012, 12:03 PM

Oh i did not know he is innocent.Hang on the site is his and under his name and he has responcibility for it.
Its like when i got stoned in Amsterdam and was walking around with a bag of grass and it was legal but then i wanted to know exactly what time in the plane was transporting Grass illegal back to my home country.Was it when i entered the airport or when i was on a plane or when i entered the Irish fly zone.

**DisgruntledGoat** · February 17, 2012, 12:12 PM

No its not like that at all.

**~~John ''True Grit'' Wayne~~** · February 17, 2012, 12:16 PM

OK

**Rolling Thunder** · February 17, 2012, 12:22 PM

No, it's like if you went to Amsterdam, got high off your face, and then came home sober, and were arrested for getting high. Not only is it patently stupid, it's also arguably a violation of sovereign law.

**Jom** · February 17, 2012, 12:23 PM

If the Iranian government doesn't like a website and considers it to be illegal, they should simply block the website rather than decide to execute its owner, but then this is Iran, and they're probably going to use this poor individual as a bargaining chip to try and have some of the sanctions imposed against them slackened. I doubt it will work and another innocent will be sacrificed to Iran's barbaric legal system.