To commemorate his birthday were drawing attention to his case on twitter. Revolutionary guards blocking temporary release of canadian. The story of saeed malekpour broke hearts of many sympathizers from all over the world. In 2008 saeed malekpour, a permanent resident of canada, was preparing to join a masters program at the university of victoria in british columbia. He was sentenced to death on charges of threatening the nations islamic ideals and national security via propaganda. After spending 11 years in irans infamous evin prison, malekpour seized an opportunity. Saeed malekpour, october 4, 2008, date unknown, escaped back to canada. Saeed malekpour, an iranianborn web programmer who had permanent resident status in canada, was arrested four years ago and confessed on iranian television that he developed and promoted porn. A new method for the selective removal of cadmium and zinc ions from aqueous solution by modified clinoptilolite saeed hajialigol, m. Web programmer saeed malekpour, is a permanent resident of canada and an iranian national. Sign up for your own profile on github, the best place to host code, manage projects, and build software alongside 50. His sister maryam is a resident of british columbia and has been advocating for his release and calling on prime minister justin trudeau to intervene.
Earlier this year, irans supreme court confirmed the death sentence for saeed malekpour, who was convicted by the state for developing software used on a porn site. Help free a canadian prisoner under torture in iran. Campaign for release of saeed malekpour people without nation. He was sentenced to death in iran for allegedly designing and moderating pornographic websites. February 15, 2017 saeed gatson 5 comments for the short time that ive been living in eugene, oregon theres one problem i cant escape. My brother saeed malekpour, a canadian resident, is imprisoned in iran on trumped up charges of moderating pornographic websites. Inside saeed malekpours harrowing escape from iran. Saeed was living in canada when he took a trip to iran to visit his dying father.
A new method for the selective removal of cadmium and zinc. Saeed is so depressed now, maryam stated in a recent interview with the toronto star. But, our nightmare is not over yet, saeed is still in prison and hes sentenced to life. Screenshot of a bbc persian report from 2011 on saeed malekpour. Feb 18, 2012 saeed malekpour wrote a computer program to upload photos to the internet iranian authorities claim someone else used the program to upload pornography rights groups call for the programmers release. Malekpour developed an internet photosharing tool that his supporters assert was used without his knowledge for pornographic purposes. Campaign for release of saeed malekpour people without. Rally to support canadian resident saeed malekpour, sentenced.
Iranianborn canadian resident returns after 11 years in. Afterward, i was handcuffed, blindfolded and placed in the back of a sedan. In august 20, his lawyer at the time, seyed mahmoud alizadeh tabatabaei, explained. If he had been able to see the online wave of wellwishers, i am sure he would have been pleased. Saeed malekpour in canada before his return to iran in 2008 to visit his dying father. Malekpour developed an internet photosharing tool that his supporters assert was used without his. Ottawa should press for release of saeed malekpour the star.
According to yazdi, while the physical torture has stopped. Feb 18, 2012 malekpour and his family denied he had any knowledge of such a network, and said he had only created imagesharing software that could have been used to upload such images without his knowledge. Screenshots from irib tv2s program on xiyue wang top, which attempts to paint. He put his name in some open source code that was later used by a website the iranian regime didnt like. We scaled our method to 1,600 programmers after last years talk on identifying source code authors via stylometry. I was arrested on october 4th, 2008, near vanak square in northern tehran by plainclothes agents who did not present an arrest warrant or identification.
The canadian resident, topranked engineering graduate, software designer is now. Jan, 2017 saeed malekpour, 42, was a computer programmer and web developer living as a permanent resident in canada before he was arrested during a visit to iran in 2008 and charged with insulting the sacred for allegedly creating an online pornographic network. German church opens doors for muslim prayers may 23, 2020. Saeed mahmoudpour currently works at the electronics and informatics etro, vrije universiteit brussel. Saeed malekpour, a permanent resident of canada, has been in prison since 2008 for writing open source software that third parties had used for sharing pornographic photos.
Canadian residents death sentence suspended in iran. During that period, he wrote a piece of software used by some companies to upload videos. I have delivered purely software and hybrid systems since early 2000 using agile and waterfall methodologies. Iranian netizen under immedate threat of execution according to a report from reporters without borders rsf, saeed malekpour, the 36yearold web and circumvention tool developer who in january was sentenced to death, is now under threat of immedate execution. Malekpour had designed photo uploading software, and according to his supporters, that software was. Olivia ward explains how saeed malekpour wound up on the wo. The canadian presshokimberley motley, mandatory credit vancouver an iranianborn canadian resident has returned to british columbia after being imprisoned and allegedly tortured in his home country for 11 years. Saeed does research in multimedia quality of experience, and subjectiveobjective quality.
Feb 02, 2017 campaign to free saeed malekpour will feature a panel of speakers from 6. Join ngos, activists, and concerned citizens around the world for the allday tweet storm on thursday, june 5th. Saeed malekpour has been subjected to torture and for years lived. He apparently created software that can be used to upload photos to a website. Saeed malekpour escapes to canada after 11 years in prison in iran.
Saving saeed campaign for release of saeed malekpour. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. Freshly came out of engineering school and got into the passion of learning internet. Convicted of developing software used on a porn site, irans supreme court confirms the death sentence to saeed malekpour. Amnesty international published an exerpt from a 2010 letter from malekpour describing his ordealwhich he says included solitary confinement, physical and mental torture. Saeed malekpour escapes to canada after 11 years in prison. In late 2010, he was sentenced to death for spreading corruption on earth in relation to a web program he created for uploading photos to the internaet. Aug 02, 2019 saeed malekpours televised confessions were subsequently used as evidence to later secure his conviction in court. Saeed malekpour, an iranian national with permanent residency in canada, has. Saeed malekpour has maintained that the use of this program on other websites was without his knowledge, they say. What awaited saeed was a sixyear ordeal of kidnapping, torture, rigged trials, death sentences, repeals and imprisonment at the hands of irans ruthless.
Saeed malekpour has maintained that the use of this program on. A fairly diversified experience includes from designing for emerging industry standards like w3c rfc to ensuring compliance with established hardware standards like daisy books for blind. The iranian authorities said it was used on persian pornographic websites. Saeed malekpour campaign on june 5, 2014 imprisoned techie saeed malekpour turns 39 years old in evin prison. Please sign this petition calling on canadas prime minister and foreign minister to secure saeed s release by intervening on his behalf to the government of iran. Saeed malekpour escaped iran while on furlough from prison and has returned safely to canada. Iranian court upholds web programmers death sentence cnet. Yazdi said the group free saeed malekpour is in touch with malekpour s lawyers in iran who provide updates on his case and condition.
A smart programmer and a loyal son, he was imprisoned in 2008 after arriving in iran from canada where he studied coding and worked as a freelancer. Screenshots from irib tv2s program on xiyue wang top, which attempts. The story of saeed malekpour, is more or less the story of all the unknown political detainees and prisoners in iran who were normal people living everyday lives. Media playback is unsupported on your device media captionthe crash happened in the model colony residential area one of the survivors of fridays plane crash in the pakistani city of karachi has described his ordeal, saying all he could see was fire. Iranian court upholds web programmers death sentence. The second link, pointing to an article dated 11 march 2010, no longer works. Saeed malekpour has been in an iranian jail for the past six years, his crime. Victoria man apparently freed after 11 years in iranian prison. Open directory where you have saved the activetcl software, and double click on it, then you will see the window just like this. Saeed malekpours televised confessions were subsequently used as evidence to later secure his conviction in court. Malekpour has maintained that the software was open source and that he was unaware of its use on other websites. Car rental firm files for us bankruptcy protection may 23, 2020. Saeed malekpours death sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment. But saeed doesnt have access to basic rights, much less twitter.
A ticket for every new law of the united states, as of march 12, 2014. Brazil court releases foulmouthed bolsonaro video may 23, 2020. When he went back to iran in 2008 to visit his sick father, he was arrested because that software he created was used on a pornographic website. In 2012, when irans supreme court confirmed saeeds death sentence, your strong objections to the unlawful verdict moved world leaders to also support the case, which ultimately led supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei to call off the execution order. Life in an iranian dungeon for being a tech expert wsj. Web programmer saeed malekpour, an iranian national with permanent resident status in canada, has been imprisoned in iran since his arrest on 4 october 2008. This is the story of a man named saeed malekpour, a man from iran who lived in canada until recently. How to download and install spin software saeed iqbal khattak. The story of saeed malekpour, is more or less the story of all the unknown political detainees and prisoners in iran. Remember saeed malekpour, who was sentenced to death after the iranian government identified him as the web programmer of a porn site.
Saeed malekpour has denied all knowledge of the program being used for this purpose. Aug 03, 2019 saeed malekpour, left, poses for a photo with his sister maryam malekpour in a saturday, aug. Execution of web programmer in iran may be imminent cnn. Torontoarea man faces death in iran prison cbc news. It echoes through slack channels and even over casual beers. Saeed malekpour asked for his it specialist to testify on his behalf about the technical details of the case, but the court did not permit this. Software developer imprisoned in iran after developing.
1458 144 458 35 237 1018 104 257 419 580 1516 1157 1514 954 581 981 535 243 78 1159 304 1403 707 1568 864 998 1340 495 1368 288 619 1162 1352 619 553 482 925 332 812 1367 427 451 58 1220 1290 860 570