A conservative Persian news website, Mashregh News, is reporting that Iranian-Canadian blogging pioneer Hossein Derakhshan has been found guilty of “conspiring with hostile governments, disseminating anti-Islamic propaganda, disseminating anti-revolutionary propaganda, blasphemy, annd operating and managing obscene pornography websites.”
He is ordered to serve 19.5 years in prison, is banned for five years from joining any Iranian political party and is required to pay €30,750, $2,900 and 200 British pounds. The article also states that the sentence can be appealed.
Upon seeing this link, I sent it over to my Derakhshan family contact, who confirmed this information.
More info coming soon as this story develops. I will contact the Canadian authorities to see if they have any further information.
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Hi, I am a journalist with Canada’s Globe And Mail and am trying to find out more info on this story. Can you please email me at soverma@globeandmail.com? Thanks so much. Best regards, Sonia
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