{"id":32158,"date":"2012-01-18T13:48:32","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T13:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=32158"},"modified":"2017-07-21T17:19:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T16:19:00","slug":"iran-canadian-web-designer-sentenced-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=32158","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Canadian web designer sentenced to death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Index on Censorship : Iran\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Iran\" target=\"_blank\">Iran&#8217;s<\/a> Supreme court <a title=\"Bikya Masr : Iran sentences web designer to death, arrests other netizens\" href=\"http:\/\/bikyamasr.com\/53990\/iran-sentences-web-designer-to-death-arrests-other-netizens\/\" target=\"_blank\">has upheld<\/a> the death sentence against a Canadian web designer.\u00a0Saeed Malekpour\u00a0was <a title=\"Rahana : Saeed Malekpour Sentenced to Death\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rahana.org\/en\/?p=8244\" target=\"_blank\">sentenced to death<\/a> last January for \u201canti-government agitation and insulting Islam,\u201d following his arrest in October 2008. He was accused of creating a site Iran claims was used to post \u201cpornographic\u201d images.\u00a0Malekpour, whose sentence was upheld yesterday, was arrested whilst visiting his ailing father. The designer&#8217;s family confirmed\u00a0the sentencing after the Revolutionary Guard pressured for him to be executed.\u00a0Malekpour has reportedly been <a title=\"The Star : Canadian resident faces execution in Iran after appeal is rejected\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/world\/article\/1117318--canadian-resident-faces-execution-in-iran-after-appeal-is-rejected\" target=\"_blank\">singled out<\/a> for\u00a0especially harsh treatment during his time at Evin Prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran&#8217;s Supreme court has upheld the death sentence against a Canadian web designer.\u00a0Saeed Malekpour\u00a0was sentenced to death last January for \u201canti-government agitation and insulting Islam,\u201d following his arrest in October 2008. He was accused of creating a site Iran claims was used to post \u201cpornographic\u201d images.\u00a0Malekpour, whose sentence was upheld yesterday, was arrested whilst visiting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[4883,584,4060,585],"tags":[346,7359,4207],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32158"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32175,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32158\/revisions\/32175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}