Human Rights Groups Push To Save Condemned Programmer In Iran 244
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."
Re:Confessed then took it back (Score:5, 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 [innocenceproject.org]
Re:reagan begs to differ (Score:2, Informative)
...his [Reagan] numerous speeches about the virtuous god-fearing mujahideen freedom fighters
Don't forget the picture of Saddam Hussein and Donald Rumsfeld (one of the architects of the 2003 Iraq invasion and then special envoy of Reagan) shaking hands in 1983.
He is NOT Canadian (Score:3, Informative)
The guy is not Canadian. People say that he is Canadian because they want to pressure the Canadian government into taking action. He is not a Canadian citizen though. He was merely a permanent resident. In addition to that, it was reported in the past that, while living in Canada, this guy had blogged defending the government of his country - i.e., Iran. Apparently, after moving to Canada, he still felt a very strong connection with his country (i.e., Iran) and he felt that he had to voice his support to his government - namely, the same government that now is planning to execute him. I am not saying that he deserves the sentence or anything like that. But really, this is something the Canadian government should not get involveld into. The guy is Iranian, he spent most of his life there, and for the most part he supported the crazy regime they have there - even after moving to Canada. What the heck did he move to Canada for if he was so in love with his country? He should have just stayed there.