Web Developer Gets Death Sentence in Iran

By siliconindia   |   Monday, 23 January 2012, 16:27 IST   |    1 Comments
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Bangalore: Iranian court confirms death sentence for Saeed Malekpour, a Web developer who was found guilty for developing photo-uploading software to upload content to porn website and is held responsible for promoting these sites, reports theguardian.

According to theguardian “Saeed Malekpour was picked up by plainclothes officers in October 2008 and taken to Evin prison in Tehran, where he spent a year in solitary confinement without access to lawyers and without charge. A year after his arrest, the 35-year-old appeared in a state television programme confessing to a series of crimes in connection with a porn website. On the basis of his TV confessions, he was convicted of designing and moderating adult materials online by a court in Tehran, which handed down death penalty.”

According to Malekpour's family, he is a permanent resident of Canada and is a programmer who wrote photo-uploading software that was used by a porn website without his knowledge. His sister said Saeed is in imminent danger of execution. He has never been provided with a fair trial at any point during this horrific and twisted ordeal. She also says that a large proportion of her brother’s confessions had been "extracted under pressure, physical and psychological torture" and in the face of threats to him and his family and Saeed is being used as a scapegoat in a string of political games led by the revolutionary guards.

Iran has executed at least 600 people between the beginning of 2011 and the end of November and seems to be in a killing spree in the shadow of capital punishment. What about our India, the ‘Soft Nation’ who is giving VIP treatment for terrorist like Kasab and government is spending cores to make sure his life is save.