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Web Developer Sentenced To Death In Iran

Posted by Soulskill on from the some-things-are-worse-than-sopa dept.

An anonymous reader points out the case of Saeed Malekpour, an Iranian-born permanent resident of Canada who worked as a web developer. In 2008, during a visit to Iran, Malekpour was arrested and detained by Iranian authorities on charges that he designed and moderated "adult content websites." In 2009, he was sentenced to death for "acting against the national security, insulting and desecrating the principles of Islam, and agitating the public mind." Malekpour wrote photo-uploading software, and in a letter he sent from prison, he said it was used by porn sites without his knowledge. This week an Iranian court reviewed the case and confirmed that the death sentence was an acceptable punishment. According to one Canadian publication, "Human rights monitors believe that Malekpour, one of a number of people held on Internet-related charges, is trapped by a convoluted justice system that is manipulated by rival factions in Iran."

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  1. wow by jmb1990 · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...I've written some bad code in my time.. but not that bad.

    1. Re:wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      As the poor bastard that has to maintain some of your shit I would have to disagree.

    2. Re:wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      you're both fired.

  2. Re:We've had a similar case here in NL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    One day a guy was sleeping in the sun with his pants off, and the papa tapeworm and the baby tapeworm got out in the sun. It was a first for the baby, so it looked at everything with big eyes and started asking. Pa, pa, what is this big shiny blue dome? The sky, son, the sky. Pa, pa, what is this shiny yellow thing in the middle of the sky? The sun, son, the sun. Pa, pa, what is the beautiful green thing all around? A meadow, son, with flowers. Pa, pa, when there are so many beautiful things in the world, why do we live in this stinking hole? Motherland, son, motherland.

  3. Re:In other words, by bky1701 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Or they could just go to Somalia and avoid the international incident bit, but with the added bonus of pirates!

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  4. Re:In other words, by f3rret · · Score: 3, Funny

    Naah, CIA is not that good with new SIGINT, that's all The NSA.

    And ooops, now're they're on us.
    Everybody say hi to the NSA!

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  5. Re:In other words, by boots19 · · Score: 3, Funny

    What? The US is a paragon of mercy and fairness; to my knowledge, no web developer who ever worked for geocities was ever executed . . .