Death sentence for netizen confirmed, new arrests
Reportes Without Borders
17-Jan-2012 (7 comments)

Reporters Without Borders is shocked to learn that the supreme court has confirmed website designer Saeed Malekpour’s death sentence. His family said the court took the decision under pressure from the Revolutionary Guards. A Canadian resident who was arrested on 4 October 2008 while visiting his family, Malekpour, 35, was sentenced to death in January 2011 on charges of anti-government agitation and insulting Islam.

Arrests of netizens are meanwhile continuing. Simien Nematollahi, a contributer to the pro-Sufi website Majzooban (www.majzooban.org), was arrested at her Tehran home by intelligence ministry officials on 11 January on a charge of anti-government propaganda. Several members of the website’s staff were arrested on 7 and 8 September and were freed on bail on 4 October pending trial.

Mohammad Solimaninya, the head of u24, a social networking website for Iranian professionals, was arrested on 20 January after being summoned before a revolutionary tribunal in Karaj, a town 20 km north of Tehran, on 10 January. Plainclothes intelligence ministry officials searched his home the same day, confiscating his computer, hard disks and CDs.

His family still does not know why he was arrested or where he is being held. As well as running u24, Solimaninya has created and hosts the websites of many civil society organizations, NGOs and Iranian intellectuals.

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Tiger Lily

by IranFirst on

Yes they are estooopidzzz :-) and even Stewpid


Tiger Lily

IranFirst, it depends on the inernet activities, but

by Tiger Lily on

the charges are estooopidzzz.

Best to email-bombard those, who can create another form of agitation.


IranFirst

Needs more Publicity

by IranFirst on

Dear Voldemose, Tiger Lily and Anahi Hojjatd, you are right. Its amazing and disgusting that in his day and age to kill the best minds of Iran just for Internet activity


Anahid Hojjati

It is really outrageous

by Anahid Hojjati on

that so many people are getting arrested these days just for their Internet activity. Thanks IranFirst for recommending this article.


vildemose

Nazin Afshin -Jam is

by vildemose on

Nazin Afshin -Jam is married to Canda's defense minister. I would think she must have some clout to help this reporter.

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.--Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.


Tiger Lily

Wouldn't Nazanin (can't remember her name)

by Tiger Lily on

you know, the Canadian beauty something one, be the one able to put the  pressure on?


vildemose

 Wher is the outrage???

by vildemose on

 Wher is the outrage??? Oh, I forgot, she is not a Basiji thug...

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.--Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.