Hamid Ghassemi-Shall was born on circa 1967 and is an Iranian-Canadian computer technician who was arrested by Iran on espionage charges in 2008 and sentenced to death the following year.
11 Facts About Hamid Ghassemi-Shall
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Hamid Ghassemi-Shall was freed in 2013, and returned to Toronto the same year.
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Hamid Ghassemi-Shall met his future wife, Italian-Canadian Antonella Mega, in 1995 while working at a shoe store in Toronto, and married her within the year.
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Hamid Ghassemi-Shall traveled to Iran in May 2008 to visit his mother, who was unwell.
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Hamid Ghassemi-Shall had last traveled to the country in 2004, on the first anniversary of his father's death.
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Hamid Ghassemi-Shall reported to the police station at the end of the month to retrieve his passport, but was arrested.
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In late 2009, Hamid Ghassemi-Shall was convicted of espionage for Mujahideen e-Khalq.
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Hamid Ghassemi-Shall's family has denied that such an e-mail was written or sent.
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Persian media sources reported on September 23,2013 that Hamid Ghassemi-Shall was released after his sentence was reduced from death to five years imprisonment.
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Hamid Ghassemi-Shall has been the subject of several viral social media campaigns.
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Hamid Ghassemi-Shall's sentence was protested by the US, UK, Brazil, and Turkey.