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Bassel Khartabil
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free culture and democracy activist, Syrian political prisoner
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1981-05-22 ) 22 May 1981, Damascus , Syria
- Died
- 3 October 2015 (2015-10-03) (aged 34) , Adra Prison , Syria
- Cause of death
- Executed by the Syrian Arab Republic
- Occupation
- Software engineer
- Known for
- Aiki Framework , Openclipart , Mozilla , Creative Commons
- Spouse
- Noura Ghazi ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2013 )
- Awards
- Index on Censorship 2013 Digital Freedom Award
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Palestine
- Place of birth
- Damascus
- Place of death
- Sednaya Prison
- Spouse
- Noura Ghazi
- Occupation
- blogger
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- Wikimania 2017
- Movement
- sharism
- Conflict
- Syrian civil war
- Image
- Bassel Khartabil (Safadi).jpg
- Residence
- Damascus
- Convicted of
- espionage
- Significant event
- arrest
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- Commons category
- Bassel Khartabil
- member of
- Wikipedia
- date of birth
- 1981-05-22
- date of death
- 2015-00-00
- place of detention
- Sednaya Prison
- manner of death
- capital punishment
- name in native language
- باسل خرطبيل
- pseudonym
- Bassel Safadi
- official blog URL
- meinsyrianjail.wordpress.com
- date of disappearance
- 2015-10-03
- Commons Creator page
- Bassel Khartabil
- subject has role
- political prisoner
- affiliation
- Creative Commons Corporation
- manner of inhumane treatment
- torture
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Encyclopedic overview
Bassel Khartabil (Arabic: باسل خرطبيل; 22 May 1981 – 3 October 2015), also known as Bassel Safadi (باسل صفدي), was a Palestinian-Syrian open-source software developer. He was detained without trial by the Syrian government in 2012 and was secretly executed in 2015. Human rights organizations say that he was detained for his activities in support of freedom of expression, and the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention considered his detention to have been arbitrary.
Khartabil was born in Damascus to a Palestinian father and a Syrian mother, and was raised in Syria, where he specialized in open source software development. He was chief technology officer (CTO) and co-founder of collaborative research company Aiki Lab and was CTO of Al-Aous, a publishing and research institution dedicated to archaeological sciences and arts in Syria. He served as project lead and public affiliate for Creative Commons Syria, and contributed to Mozilla Firefox, Wikipedia, and Openclipart. He is credited with "opening up the Internet in Syria and vastly extending online access and knowledge to the Syrian people."
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bassel Khartabil” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.