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Mr. Malekpour was arrested during a visit home to his ailing father. He worked as a freelance website designer in Canada and admitted to running the website, which has since been taken down, in a confession played on national TV in March 2009. Three days later, his father died.
Ms. Eftekhari says Mr. Malekpour?s online profile had been used without his permission to create the website.
In a March 2010 open letter to Iranian officials, Mr. Malekpour described his treatment in prison prior to the confession: ?While I remained blindfolded and handcuffed, several individuals armed with cables, batons, and their fists struck and punched me.? There were ?constant threats to arrest and torture my wife and family if I did not co-operate, threats to kill me.?
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Ok, so if I'm reading this right, he was forced to admit he ran the sites??? His wife says that someone used his profile to create the site and then he says in the letter that he was beaten and threatened to cooperate or as I'm assuming to admit his culpability. I'm confused...
