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Resident of Canada Escapes From Jail in Iran, Returns Home
2019-08-05
[AAWSAT] An Iranian serving a life sentence on a conviction of designing a "pornographic" website has fled the country while on short-term release from prison and has arrived in Canada, the foreign ministry and Iranian authorities said.

"Canada welcomes the news that Saeed Malekpour has been reunited with his family in Canada," Canada's foreign ministry front man said in a statement received by AFP.

"We have advocated for Mr Malekpour's release and are pleased that he is now in Canada," the front man said, without elaborating due to privacy considerations.

For his part Iran's judiciary front man Gholamhossein Esmaili said: "this individual was barred from leaving the country and has apparently left... via unofficial channels and has not returned."

"This individual was sentenced to life in jail and had served more than 11 years of his sentence," Esmaili added, as quoted by the judiciary's official news agency, Mizan Online.

According to AFP, his sister posted a video on Twitter confirming he had returned to Canada.

"My brother Saeed Malekpour has just arrived to Canada! The nightmare is finally over!" Maryam Malekpour said.

Canadian media said he had landed in Vancouver on Friday.

Malekpour was arrested in December 2008 in Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
when he returned to his native land to visit his dying father. He was accused of operating a pornographic website.

He was initially sentenced to death, but that was commuted to life in prison in August 2013, AFP reported.

According to reports at the time, he had been found guilty on three counts, including "designing and moderating adult content websites" and "insulting the sanctity of Islam".

Posted by:Fred

#2  ...well, the penalties are lessor for now. Canada has it own brand of SJW running amok. The new Puritans shall not be denied.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-08-05 07:26  

#1  Canada seems so overjoyed as if providence has delivered their favorite son back to them.

"Canada welcomes the news that Saeed Malekpour has been reunited with his family in Canada," Where the prospects of making it big as a p☼rnographer are far better.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-08-05 06:23  

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