He Was Iran’s Homegrown Tech Star. The Guards Saw a Blackmail Opportunity

For people who don't automatically recognize the name, Behdad Esfahbod is one of the significant people behind internationalization in the open source world--especially for Middle-Eastern languages and scripts.

He is a major persona behind HarfBuzz (which is like one of only 3 text shapers in the world) and also created Glyphy (which does font rendering using graphics cards).

It is an absolute tragedy what was done to him.