06 December 2010

Website Operator Sentenced to Death in Iran Over Porn Site

Iranian officials have sentenced a man to death for allegedly running a porn site in Canada. According to the Toronto Globe and Mail, Saeed Malekpour was sentenced Saturday after being convicted as “corrupt on Earth” and a “warrior against God.”

Malekpour is an Iranian-born Canadian resident and returned to Iran to visit his sick father in October of 2008, that’s when he was put in Tehran’s Evin Prison and where he was given the news of the verdict. [XBIZ] Read more [via Religious Watch]