Programmer Sentenced To Death In Iran For Upload Software

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by jrabone • 15 years ago

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HyprMusic• 15 years ago

Does anyone have any information on the software he wrote specifically did or was called?

bamdad3• 15 years ago

I'm an Iranian developer living in the UK , I heard he was arrested because of developing Iranian porn website. I'm not sure about it , but this is what I heard in the news while I was In Iran. check this blog for more info: http://peoplewithoutnation.wordpress.com/

phaus• 15 years ago

Because of your background, maybe you can answer a question for me. Why is it that Iranians living abroad choose to keep returning to their homeland when they know that it could lead to false imprisonment/execution? Is it due to family members who still remain in Iran or is it because you feel that the risk to your own personal safety is relatively low?

The reason I ask is because most of the people who have been getting arrested seem to be people of Iranian descent who chose to move to another country. Recently a former U.S. Soldier of Iranian descent was also sentenced to die; all he did was return home to visit his grandmother.

bamdad3• 15 years ago

This website is translated version of a website which is related to the Iranian government. http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fa&tl...

It is written here that he was a developer and an author of the largest Iranian pornographic websites. (I cannot believe it because according to Persian Wikipedia , he studied in the best University of Technology in Iran called Sharif University which means that he could get fund from any University in the world to continue his studies and that was what he did , He traveled to Canada to study in the Victoria university but when he heard that his father is sick he went back to Iran to see his father but the Iranian Cyber arrested him) His wife claimed that he just developed a software which he didn't know about where it was about to used. And as usual that a developer put his name in a file inside the software package he wrote his name in a file without the knowledge of where its going to be used.

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fa&tl...

eternalban• 15 years ago

The "confession" [1] was posted to vimeo.com. The claim is that he operated under the pseudonym "Siavash Hosseinkhani" (apparently the operator of a avizoon.org) [2]

He was kept in solitary for 1 year in Evin prison and tortured. Use your imagination...[see 4,8]

And he is not the only one from Aryamehr University of Technology (now called Sharif by IRI) currently held by Islamic Republic of Iran. Omid Kokabee[3][4][5], a young physicist (just look at him; he is one us, a geek) is also currently held in IRI dungeons.

It is a terror regime that terrorizes its own citizens. Plain and simple. [6]

All this talk about nuclear program, etc., while for 30+ years the West and East have been /quite happily/ under the table doing business with this gang. It is business. The rest that we get to see is show business. They could have been toppled years ago. Even today, they push just enough to get business concessions, then they back track.[7]

[1] http://vimeo.com/16593462

[2] http://revolutionaryfesenjan.blogspot.com/2010/12/solidarity...

[3] http://utexas.academia.edu/OmidKokabee

[4] http://features.kodoom.com/en/iran-politics/iran-imprisons-p...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omid_Kokabee

[6] https://duckduckgo.com/c/Prisoners_and_detainees_of_Iran

[7] http://www.rferl.org/content/sarkozy_warns_attack_iran_chaos...

[8] https://persianbanoo.wordpress.com/2011/07/16/shocking-accou...

jcromartie• 15 years ago

The more that I read about this, the more I get the feeling that there were specific political reasons to target this individual. I don't know how a country like Iran would even know he developed some software. He probably was outspoken against the regime.

tikhonj• 15 years ago

It could also be a specific political reason to target somebody. Perhaps he did not do much on his own, but he represents the foreign internet, which Iran wants to remove from their country. They might just want to start scaring their populace regarding the internet before replacing it with a country-wide network.

zalew• 15 years ago

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dchuk• 15 years ago

most likely a spy/connected to a spy system/something similar. The story is just a front.

ahelwer• 15 years ago

I have some Iranian friends here in Canada. A year or two ago they signed a petition calling for the release of this man. They are now on a list entitled "Enemies of Islam" and have heard through the grapevine of Iranian officials asking people to find dirt on them. These people are insane.

Programmer Sentenced To Death In Iran For Upload Software

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