Man says he was targeted by gov’t official after refusing to hack into opposition e-mail

A Guyanese man and his wife were last month granted asylum by the Immigration Refugee Board of Canada, which heard that the couple was threatened after the husband refused a request by a government official to hack into the computers of leading members of the opposition and a newspaper columnist.

The man, an Information Technology expert, admitted that he sabotaged two “anti-government” websites at the official’s request,