Human Rights Groups Push To Save Condemned Programmer In Iran

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday February 19, 2012 @02:19AM from the last-chance dept.

First time accepted submitter debiangruven writes "Human rights Groups are making one final plea to save the life of Canadian programmer, Saeed Malekpour, who was sentenced to death for writing a program to upload photos to the Internet. From the article: 'Malekpour's supporters have created Facebook pages and websites in his support dating to at least 2009. Amnesty International has requested on its website that concerned individuals write Iranian authorities inside and outside the country to demand that Malekpour not be executed."

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Re:Confessed then took it back by TheLink · 2012-02-19 03:16 · Score: 4, Informative

Easy for you to say, Coward. In some places it's common to beat the confession out of suspects, sometimes to death.
Even in supposedly more civilized places, the innocent often get coerced to pleading guilty: http://www.innocenceproject.org/Content/When_the_Innocent_Plead_Guilty.php
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