Middle East Focus: Canadian-Iranian Blogger Threatened with Execution…….

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Canadian-Iranian Blogger Threatened with Execution…….

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“A Canadian-Iranian blogger credited with starting the blogging movement in Iran faces the death penalty over his writings, two watchdog groups said Thursday. Hossein Derakhshan was arrested after returning to Iran in November 2008 and charged with "collaborating with enemy states, creating propaganda against the Islamic regime, insulting religious sanctity, and creating propaganda for anti-revolutionary groups," said Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) and PEN Canada. According to the two organizations, prosecutors are now calling for Derakhshan to face the death penalty after he was convicted by Tehran's revolutionary court earlier this year. News of the sentencing request started filtering out on social media sites on Monday, and the CJFE and PEN said they confirmed the reports with his family…… Derakhshan is the third Canadian journalist to be arrested in Iran in recent years…...”

Something about Canadian-Iranians seems to rile the government in Tehran, more than other émigré Iranians. If this item is true. I need to look into this.
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