[governance] Iran Executes IT Specialist for Spying for Israel

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

All,

  It appears that Iran's Govt. takes it's IT privacy very seriously, a
bit
too seriously even for my taste, and even given the circumstances!

  Has, or is the IGC going to offer any protest to this sort of thing?
Or is it just another ho-hum sort of thing to the IGC?  I also haven't
seen any official condemnation from the UN on this either.  Rather
odd...  Even more interesting I didn't notice or hear of any
condemnation
from the ITU, ISOC or ICANN either...  Seems except for INEGroup
no other civil society group is saddened or remotely concerned about
poor Ali's horrible and significantly, unjustified demise.  What does
this
say for the advancment of IT social justice?  Says volumes to me, and
our members...

See:
(November 22, 25 & 30, 2008)
Last month, Iran executed an Iranian IT specialist after he confessed
to working for the Israeli intelligence service, Mossad.  Ali Ashtari
traveled overseas to purchase equipment, including computers, necessary
for Iran's nuclear program.  Ashtari allegedly allowed the equipment to
be altered so that Mossad could keep tabs on and even interfere with
Iranian weapons development.  Iran claims to have broken another Mossad
spy ring and plans to seek the death penalty for those suspects as well.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5258057.ece

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/26/world/middleeast/26iran.html?ref=world

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2008/11/an-iranian-busi.html

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