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Saeed Malekpour, a dual Canadian and Iranian national, arrested in October 2008, was sentenced to death in October 2010 for "insulting and desecrating Islam" after a programme he had developed for uploading photos online was used to post pornographic images without his knowledge. In 2009, before his trial, Iranian state television repeatedly aired an alleged “confession” by Saeed Malekpour. In an open letter dated March 2010, he stated that his purported confession had been extracted after prolonged torture. On 2 December 2012, new reports emerged that his death sentence had been suspended, but the family has not received official confirmation in writing from the authorities.
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