Human rights lawyer Gissou Nia and spokesperson for the Campaign to Free Saeed d...

Human rights lawyer Gissou Nia and spokesperson for the Campaign to Free Saeed described the broader implications of the case for programmers in Iran in an email to Global Voices:

The arrest and ongoing imprisonment of Saeed Malekpour shows that all Iranian freelance web programmers are vulnerable to potential legal trouble as they cannot know for certain which sites their codes have been used on. Should they face the misfortune of having a code they created used on a website deemed obscene by the Iranian authorities (and where the backend is being monitored by the IRGC) they can face adverse legal consequences.


#FreeSaeed: An Iranian Web Developer’s Sixth Year in Prison · Global Voices
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Saeed Malekpour was originally sentenced to death as a "corrupter of the earth" for his open source software that others used to download pornographic images. http://j.mp/1uStHnZ KabK22 http://j.mp/GASQd7