Iranian death sentence upheld for Canadian blogger

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Iranian death sentence upheld for Canadian blogger

The Associated Press Published Sunday, January 29, 2012 2:01PM EST

This undated image taken from a Facebook page shows Saeed Malekpour.

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TEHRAN - Iran's state media say the Supreme Court has upheld a death sentence against a web developer convicted of spreading corruption.

The semiofficial Fars news agency says blogger Saeed Malekpour was found guilty of promoting pornographic sites. It says the Supreme Court approved the death sentence handed down by a Revolutionary Court that deals with security crimes.

Malekpour was reported imprisoned in October, 2008 and confessed on Iranian TV that he developed and promoted pornographic websites.

The website gerdab.ir, affiliated with the elite Revolutionary Guard, called Malekpour the head of the biggest Persian-language network of pornographic websites.