Amnesty Canada's Lifesaver June 2015 Iran: Don't let Saeed stay in prison for th...

Amnesty Canada's Lifesaver June 2015
Iran: Don't let Saeed stay in prison for the rest of his life
http://bit.ly/1Fq299b


Profile Pictures
http://j.mp/GASQd7

"A birthday to forget inside a notorious Iranian prison" by The Toronto Star's O...

"A birthday to forget inside a notorious Iranian prison" by The Toronto Star's Olivia Ward #lifesnotfair


A birthday to forget inside a notorious Iranian prison | Toronto Star
www.thestar.com
Saeed Malekpour turned 40 inside Evin Prison, serving a questionable life sentence for plotting to corrupt the morals of Iranians. http://j.mp/GASQd7

Timeline Photos
Saeed Malekpour est résident permanent canadien. Le leader iranien a posé le bon geste en annulant son exécution. Il est maintenant temps de renverser sa sentence à vie Tweetez! #LifesNOTFair #FreeSaeedMalekpour Ecrivez : http://j.mp/1QxQmw0 http://j.mp/GASQd7

http://j.mp/1Iq41WO...

http://j.mp/1HQAP5D


http://j.mp/GASQd7

Tweet Storm begins now

Tweet Storm begins now


http://j.mp/GASQd7

Suggested tweets for #HBDSaeed and #LifesNotFair: Today's Saeed Malekpour's 40t...

Suggested tweets for #HBDSaeed and #LifesNotFair:

Today's Saeed Malekpour's 40th, his 7th unhappy bday in Iran. Kidnapped off the streets in 2008, imprisoned since...#HBDSaeed, UR not alone.

Web developer turns 40 in Iran prison. Kidnapped off the street at 33, he's been imprisoned since then http://j.mp/1HQAP5D #HBDSaeed

Saeed Malekpour is sentenced to life in prison for moderating multiple x rated websites. Evidence against him: forced confessions #HBDSaeed

Saeed Malekpour's in prison b/c an image uploading app he created for a client was used on an x rated site http://j.mp/1HQAP5D #HBDSaeed

It's unfair to hold Saeed on a life sentence when the only evidence to support the charges against him are forced confessions #LifesNotFair

Supreme Leader did right by calling off Saeed's execution, now time for him to be fair and release Saeed, Order investigation #LifesnotFair

Begins at 3PM EST on June 5th, 2015, Saeed's 40th birthday.


http://j.mp/GASQd7

Please join us with one tweet at any point, starting in 20 minutes from now, to...

Please join us with one tweet at any point, starting in 20 minutes from now, to help raise awareness about Saeed on his 40th birthday. The more voices, the more chances we will reach the Iranian authorities.

#HBDSaeed #LifesNotFair #FreeSaeedMalekpour Twitter.com http://j.mp/GASQd7

Jack Knox: Man stuck in Iranian prison, imagining Island he loves
http://j.mp/1trxUx3
Saeed Malekpour turns 40 today, stuck in the same notorious Iranian prison in which he has languished for seven years — far, far away from his old Victoria home.He remains locked up despite . . . http://j.mp/GASQd7

Maryam Malekpour, sister of prisoner of conscience Saeed Malekpour in interview...

Maryam Malekpour, sister of prisoner of conscience Saeed Malekpour in interview with CHRR:The Prosecutor stated that Saeed is banned from face to face prison visits because he is considered a high security prisoner.

Saeed Malekpour, is a web developer who lived in Canada for three years while pursuing his studies at Victoria University. The alumnus of Tehran’s Sharif University was arrested in 2008 during a family visit to Iran. He was sentenced to death in October 2010 on charges of blasphemy for alleged management of pornographic websites. Among the charges against Malekpour were “propagating against the regime,” “insulting the holy,” “insulting the leadership,” “insulting the presidency,” and “corruption on earth.” In 2013 Malekpour’s death sentence was commuted to life in prison.

http://j.mp/1M9FgvV


Sister of jailed programmer Saeed Malekpour demands justice. - کمیتـه گزارشـگران حقـوق بشـر
www.chrr.biz
Maryam Malekpour, sister of prisoner of conscience Saeed Malekpour in interview with CHRR:The Prosecutor stated that Saeed is banned from face to face prison visits because he is considered a high security prisoner. Saeed Malekpour, is a web developer who... http://j.mp/GASQd7

Amir Rashidi: A happy birthday to Saeed in computer language (Binary): 01001000...

Amir Rashidi: A happy birthday to Saeed in computer language (Binary):
01001000 01100001 01110000 01110000 01111001 00100000 01100010 01101001 01110010 01110100 01101000 01100100 01100001 01111001 http://j.mp/GASQd7

"Amir Rashidi", an Iranian internet researcher and activist, told Global Voices...

"Amir Rashidi", an Iranian internet researcher and activist, told Global Voices the following in an email:

"A piece of open source code can be used in any system. Just like many of the nation's software programs, such as the Saina application and national search engines. An open source programmer who releases his code publicly is no longer responsible for the use of his code after it is published. With Saeed's open source code, you could have built a program to either upload pornographic photos or religious ones. Unfortunately, in our country the lack of understanding about the work done by individuals such as Saeed is not the only problem. In our country, there is no clear law about cyber crimes. Saeed was a victim of a lack of understanding from the regime about his work and the absence of clear and transparent rules of cyberspace."

A happy birthday to Saeed in computer language (Binary):

01001000 01100001 01110000 01110000 01111001 00100000 01100010 01101001 01110010 01110100 01101000 01100100 01100001 01111001 http://j.mp/GASQd7

"Mehdi Yahyanejad", the founder of the Persian language social and political web...

"Mehdi Yahyanejad", the founder of the Persian language social and political website Balatarin, had this to say about Saeed's continued imprisonment:

''It is not justice to keep a talented software engineer in jail just because the software he developed was used by others for reasons deemed illegal by the Iranian government. With that logic, every time a hacker uses Gmail to defraud someone, a Google engineer should also be arrested.

I hope Saeed's birthday's can be celebrated as a free man." http://j.mp/GASQd7

‘Writing Code Is Not a Crime': Jailed Iranian Web Developer Saeed Malekpour Turn...

‘Writing Code Is Not a Crime': Jailed Iranian Web Developer Saeed Malekpour Turns 40"


‘Writing Code Is Not a Crime': Jailed Iranian Web Developer Saeed Malekpour Turns 40 · Global Voices
globalvoicesonline.org
"It is not justice to keep a talented software engineer in jail just because the software he developed was used by others for reasons deemed illegal by the Iranian government." http://j.mp/GASQd7

Amnesty Canada Francophone Anniversaire de Saeed Malekpour : demandez sa libérat...

Amnesty Canada Francophone
Anniversaire de Saeed Malekpour : demandez sa libération
http://j.mp/1eQsyb8


Anniversaire de Saeed Malekpour : demandez sa libération
www.amnistie.ca
Le programmeur web Saeed Malekpour, un résident permanent du Canada d'origine iranienne, purge présentement une peine à perpétuité à la Prison d'Evin en Iran. Saeed va avoir 40 ans le 5 juin. Il avait 33 ans lorsqu'il a été arrêté en 2008 et ça sera le 7e anniversaire qu'il passera derrière les barr… http://j.mp/GASQd7

http://j.mp/GASQd7

We need to get the attention of Iranian authorities, and there is no better way...

We need to get the attention of Iranian authorities, and there is no better way than using social media. Two more days until #HBDSaeed. http://j.mp/GASQd7

http://j.mp/GASQd7

As we prepare for social media campaigning for the purpose of getting the attent...

As we prepare for social media campaigning for the purpose of getting the attention of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, let's do the first task together: invite at least 10 of your friends on Facebook to the campaign's event page.



http://j.mp/GASQd7

http://j.mp/GASQd7

Forced Confessions - A film by Maziar Bahari available here till May 31: http://...

Forced Confessions - A film by Maziar Bahari available here till May 31: http://j.mp/1Ff29tD
Maziar Bahari’s 2012 film Forced Confessions pulls the mask off a regime that brutally extracts lies from its citizens – not criminals, but writers, journalists, and scholars. Bahari, who was forced to confess following his arrest in 2009, tells the story of the Iranian regime’s attempt to legitimize its rule through force.


Forced Confessions
en.iranwire.com
The secret trial of Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian, who has been in detention since July 2014, began in Tehran on May 26. He could face up to 20 years in prison. Rezaian’s trial, which his lawyer Leilah Ahsan said could take two or through days, will be heard before a Revolutionary Cour… http://j.mp/GASQd7

چگونه به سعید ملک پور کمک کنیم؟ با کمک خیلی ها توانستیم توجه ها را به پرونده ی...

‫چگونه به سعید ملک پور کمک کنیم؟

با کمک خیلی ها توانستیم توجه ها را به پرونده ی سعید جهت عوض کردن نظر رهبر ایران آیت الله علی خامنه ای نسبت به حکم اعدام و لغو آن جلب کنیم, اما سعید همچنان محکوم یه حبس ابد است و تنها مدرکی که علیه اوست اعترافاتی است که زیر شکنجه بیان شده است.

چگونه آرمان سعید به بدترین کابوس اش تبدیل شد؟ از اینجا بخوانید:
‬http://j.mp/1Hyq794‫

سعید در سن 33 سالگی به زندان رفت و پنجم ماه ژوئن 40 ساله خواهد شد اما سرنوشت او همچنان نامشخص است. تنها مساله ی واضحی که روشن میباشد این است که تنها فردی که قادر به عوض کردن سرنوشت سعید است مقام رهبری ایران است.

از منابع قابل دسترسیاتان برای به دست اوردن توجه رهبر ایران کمک بگیرید خبر پرونده ی سعید را با همکاران خود ، دوستان ، آشنایان، فالوورهایتان در شبکه های اجتماعی در میان بگذارید.

محبوبیت شما در شبکه های اجتماعی میتواند تاثیر بزرگی در پرونده ی سعید و جلب توجه رهبر ایران داشته باشد.

4 پیام مهم برای گسترش اگاهی نسبت به پرونده ی سعید :

1.تنها مدرکی که دولت ایران برعلیه سعید دارد اعترافات اجباری اوست
‬http://j.mp/1Hyq795‫
#LifesNotFair

2. رهبر ایران کار درستی را با از بین بردن حکم اعدام سعید انجام داد وقت ان رسیده که حبس ابد او را نیز لغو کند #LifesNotFair
#FreeSaeedMalekpour

3.حرکت عادلانه ای که رهبر ایران میتواند انجام دهد لغو کردن حکم اعدام و ازادی سعید و در درجه ی دوم پیگیری درستی و یا نادرستی اعترافات زیرشکنجه ی او باشد
#FreeSaeedmaekpour
#LifesNotFair

4. پنجم ژوئن تولد چهل سالگی سعید ملک پور است، این هفتمین زادروز سعید پشت میله های زندان است. سعید از 33 سالگی در اوین است. تولدت مبارک سعید, تو تنها نیستی.
#HBDSaeed

نکته: پیام را با توییت کردن به افراد مشهور، فعالین و افرادی که دارای فالوورهای بالایی هستند گسترش دهید و از آنها درخواست
کنید با استفاده از هشتگهای مشخص تولد سعید را تبریک بگویند

در فیسبوک: لینک ها و عکس های مربوط به سعید ملکپور را در صفحه ها و گروه هایی که میشناسید یا مدیریت ان را به عهده دارید به اشتراک بگذارید صفحه کمپین سعید ملکپور در فیسبوک.

نکته: پیام را با کامنت دادن به اکانتهای شناخته شده و فعالین گسترش دهید و از انها بخواهید که در مورد سعید بنویسند و اذهان و توجهات را به سمت پرونده ی وی جلب کنند.

بخاطر بسپارید که صدای خود را با مدارک مذکور به گوش سایرین برسانید


فعالیت های مدنی غیر مجازی :

1. اگر سفارت ایران نزدیک شماست با سازماندهی تجمعی در رو به روی ساختمان سفارت و به همرسانی توجهات را به سوی پرونده ی سعید جلب کنید به امید اینکه توجه رهبر ایران نیز به این پرونده جلب شود. عکس ها و فیلم های اعتراضات خود را برای کمپین سعید در فیسبوک ارسال کنید.

2. جشن تولدی برای سعید تدارک دهید و عکس و فیلمهای خود را به صفحه ی فیس بوک مذکور ارسال کنید.

3. هر کس به تنهایی پیامی ضبط کرده به صفحات انلاین پست کرده و از صحت ارسال لینک به کمپین فیس بوک سعید ملکپور اطمینان حاصل کنید.

English: ‬http://j.mp/1Hyq799


http://j.mp/GASQd7

Michael Petrou interviews Maryam, Saeed Malekpour's sister, for Maclean's Magazi...

Michael Petrou interviews Maryam, Saeed Malekpour's sister, for Maclean's Magazine: A Canadian resident's life slipping away in a Tehran jail


A Canadian resident's life slipping away in a Tehran jail
www.macleans.ca
Since 2008, Saeed Malekpour has been serving a life sentence in the infamous Evin prison after he says he was tortured into a false confession http://j.mp/GASQd7

Thanks to Amnesty International Toronto's Iran Action Circle team for coming up...

Thanks to Amnesty International Toronto's Iran Action Circle team for coming up with the hashtag #LifesNotFair to shed light on Saeed Malekpour's life sentence.

Here are a few suggestions on how to use the hashtag:

1) Only evidence Iran has to support the charges against Saeed are confessions he gave under torture http://bit.ly/1Ff7xPC #LifesNotFair

2 Iran’s leader did Right Thing by calling off execution, time for Fair Thing: Quash His Life Sentence. #LifesNOTFair, #FreeSaeedMalekpour.

3) #LifesnotFair What’s fair is for @Khamenei_ir to drop life sentence & #FreeSaeedMalekpour + Order an investigation into torture allegations


http://j.mp/GASQd7

How to Help Saeed Malekpour

How to Help Saeed Malekpour


How to Help Saeed Malekpour
medium.com
With the help of many, we were able to sustain enough attention on Saeed’s case to move Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamen… http://j.mp/GASQd7

The Story of how an Iranian programmer’s dream life turned into his worst nightmare

The Story of how an Iranian programmer’s dream life turned into his worst nightmare


The Story of how an Iranian programmer’s dream life turned into his worst nightmare
medium.com
Scroll all the way down to see how you can help Saeed http://j.mp/GASQd7

This painting is the work of a dear supporter of Saeed. Thank you for the lovely...

This painting is the work of a dear supporter of Saeed. Thank you for the lovely birthday gift ♥.


http://j.mp/GASQd7

http://j.mp/GASQd7

Paul Dewar: Bring Saeed Malekpour home
news.nationalpost.com
As a software engineer, he helped people communicate. He made the world more free. So Iran threw him in prison for life http://j.mp/GASQd7

June 5th is his 40th birthday. Yes, he's still in Evin Prison, almost seven year...

June 5th is his 40th birthday. Yes, he's still in Evin Prison, almost seven years now. Will you be his voice?

Please share and re-post.


http://j.mp/GASQd7

Please share Saeed's story with your friends and contacts in the tech world, and...

Please share Saeed's story with your friends and contacts in the tech world, and ask them to spread the word. Lets stand in solidarity with Saeed, an imprisoned web developer


Canadian Resident Spends Nowruz in Evin Prison for the Seventh Year in a Row
peoplewithoutnation.wordpress.com
Saeed Malekpour is spending Nowruz in Evin Prison for the seventh year in a row. He's currently held in a general ward, which means there is less pressure on him now than compared to when he was he... http://j.mp/GASQd7

Saeed's spending Nowruz in Evin Prison for the seventh year in a row. He's curre...

Saeed's spending Nowruz in Evin Prison for the seventh year in a row. He's currently held in a general ward, which means there is less pressure on him now than compared to when he was held in Ward 2A. He was transferred after his case received much international attention in spring 2014. The stubborn grip of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corp was finally yanked off his judicial case file.

He hasn't had any visitors for the past year, the authorities won't allow him any; this is torture. But, things were much worse for him his six years in ward 2A: a place that doesn't fall under prison jurisdiction and is fully run by the IRGC.

Saeed lived in the shadow of death for five of the years in Ward 2A, sentenced to die for waging war against god and corruption on earth through allegedly moderating multiple pornographic websites. To this day no Iranian authority has presented any evidence other than forced confessions to prove that Saeed's "guilty" of any type of "crime" that warrants imprisonment or the death sentence. His execution was stopped twice - the first time by the Iranian Supreme Court due to irregularities and inconsistencies in the case file, the second time by Khamenei through a pardon; but the imprisonment sentence remains for no given reason...It's not certain when the authorities will release him.

For the first two years of Saeed's arrest he was abused to extreme levels by IRGC officials. They tortured him to the point that he agreed to give televised confessions. Some details of his torture are in the letter he wrote and smuggled out of prison: http://j.mp/xIiz80 His sister Maryam Malekpour has said that the full letter is too gruesomely disturbing to share publicly.

In 2008 the IRGC had established a group known as the Iranian Cyber Army. Their main goal is to crackdown on obscene and immoral websites online. Their first main project consisted of bringing down pornographic websites and tracking down their moderators/owners. The main target website was avizoon.com, a site which at that time was among the top three most visited in Iran. The IRGC brought down the site in 2009.

When Saeed returned to Iran from Canada in 2008 to visit his ailing father, the IRGC authorities hit the jackpot, they captured him and locked him up. They accused him of moderating porn sites, namely avizoon.com. Despite the lack of evidence, Iranian authorities insisted he was the moderator, but according to Saeed, he had created a picture upload program for a client whom he acquired through freelance, and was unaware of which sites the code was used in. Apparently, the authorities found the code along with Saeed's name in it when they hacked into avizoon.com.

Now that they had Saeed, they were able to close the case on avizoon.com, which meant that they could receive more money for a next project. According to sources, the cyber army was receiving millions of dollars for each project. They became very rich after Saeed.

Every day that Saeed remains imprisoned, it becomes increasingly clear that to the Iranian authorities, he is just a pawn in a bloody chess game. Even though he is now in the general ward and no longer living in the shadow of death, his fate still remains in the hands of the IRGC and, ultimately, the leader of Iran Ali Khamenei.

May Saeed be released any day now.

Last night Amnesty Toronto held an event for Nowruz and highlighted several political prisoners, including Saeed. His sister sent a note that was read to the audience: "This is the seventh Nowruz that Saeed is spending in prison. This is the seventh Nowruz that Saeed is not by his family's side. Thank you to all the people who have stood by Saeed's and my side and continue to do so. I hope that this will be a good year for us all - a year where we can celebrate the release of our dear ones from prison - a year where all the locks and chains are opened and all the pain, suffering and distance become nothing more than memories - a year where we are all feeling good. Happy New Year.


http://j.mp/GASQd7

Celebration of Nowruz, the Iranian New Year

1) Saeed Malekpour, a 39-year old web programmer, is a permanent resident of Canada and Iranian national.Saeed Malekpour is serving a life sentence in Evin Prison. He was originally sentenced to death in 2010 for “insulting and desecrating Islam” after a software packag... http://j.mp/GASQd7

http://j.mp/1HnhwTg...

http://j.mp/1HnhtHd


Iran’s black ‘Spider’ ensnares Facebook users | Toronto Star
www.thestar.com
A campaign by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard targets the social media-savvy and takes advantage of vague laws to impose harsh sentences upon them. http://j.mp/GASQd7

Saeed Malekpour in Amnesty International Canada's Nowruz 2015 Action file: http...

Saeed Malekpour in Amnesty International Canada's Nowruz 2015 Action file:
http://j.mp/1E83kxn


Celebration of Nowruz, the Iranian New Year

Traditional Nowruz celebrations include the preparation of a "Haft Sin" table which literally means the seven s’s. Seven items beginning with the Persian letter sin (equivalent to the English s) and which represent spring time, are set out. To honor this tradition, Amne... http://j.mp/GASQd7