diff --git a/fix-requests-version-bug.patch b/fix-requests-version-bug.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..651155d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fix-requests-version-bug.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+From 22dc3d0c49c9340866ce930b2f7861d2671cc965 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Charalampos Stratakis <cstratak@redhat.com>
+Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 14:38:14 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] Fix requests version bug
+
+---
+ linkcheck/__init__.py | 6 +++---
+ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/linkcheck/__init__.py b/linkcheck/__init__.py
+index 5624855..231a7c4 100644
+--- a/linkcheck/__init__.py
++++ b/linkcheck/__init__.py
+@@ -24,10 +24,10 @@ import sys
+ # Needs Python >= 2.7.2 which fixed http://bugs.python.org/issue11467
+ if not (hasattr(sys, 'version_info') or
+         sys.version_info < (2, 7, 2, 'final', 0)):
+-    raise SystemExit("This program requires Python 2.7.2 or later.")
++    import platform
++    version = platform.python_version()
++    raise SystemExit("This program requires Python 2.7.2 or later instead of %s." % version)
+ import requests
+-if requests.__version__ <= '2.2.0':
+-    raise SystemExit("This program requires Python requests 2.2.0 or later.")
+ 
+ import os
+ # add the custom linkcheck_dns directory to sys.path
+-- 
+2.7.4
+
diff --git a/linkchecker.spec b/linkchecker.spec
index e23130a..4347bfe 100644
--- a/linkchecker.spec
+++ b/linkchecker.spec
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Name:           linkchecker
 Version:        9.3
-Release:        5%{?dist}
+Release:        6%{?dist}
 Summary:        Check HTML documents for broken links
 License:        GPLv2
 URL:            http://wummel.github.io/linkchecker/
@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ BuildRequires:  python-setuptools
 BuildRequires:  qt4-devel
 Requires:       python-requests
 
+# Should be fixed upstream in next release; see:
+# https://github.com/wummel/linkchecker/commit/c2ce810c3fb00b895a841a7be6b2e78c64e7b042
+Patch0: fix-requests-version-bug.patch
+
 %description
 LinkChecker is a website validator. LinkChecker checks links in web documents or full websites.
 
@@ -45,6 +49,8 @@ This package contains a GUI program for %{name}.
 %prep
 %setup -qn LinkChecker-%{version}
 
+%patch0 -p1
+
 %build
 make -C doc/html/
 CFLAGS="%{optflags}" %{__python2} setup.py build
@@ -81,6 +87,9 @@ desktop-file-validate %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/applications/linkchecker-gui.deskt
 %{_datadir}/pixmaps/linkchecker.png
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Jul 19 2016 Charalampos Stratakis <cstratak@redhat.com> - 9.3-6
+- Backport upstream patch to fix python-requests version error
+
 * Tue Jul 19 2016 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 9.3-5
 - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Automatic_Provides_for_Python_RPM_Packages