Porn website owner sentenced to life in prison in Iran
One of the owners of Iranian online porn website Avizoon was
sentenced to life in prison, Mehr news agency reported.
One of the co-owners of the website Saeed Malekpour was first
sentenced to execution, and later appealed to Iranian judiciary
system. As a result of appeal, his sentence was reduced.
Malekpour was living in Canada, and was arrested upon arriving in
Iran in 2008.
Following the arrest, Malekpour was charged with hacking people's
web cameras, and releasing immoral porn videos online, as well as
releasing some films that were recorded during rape incidents of
Iranian girls.
Malekpour's wife said previously that her husband was only the
designer of the Avizoon website, and that he had nothing to do with
the website's content and activity.
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