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Bassel Khartabil | |
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باسل خرطبيل | |
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| Born | 22 May 1981 Damascus, Syria |
| Died | 3 October 2015 (aged 34)[1][2] Adra Prison, Syria |
| Occupation | Software engineer |
| Known for | Aiki Framework, Openclipart, Open Font Library, Fabricatorz, Mozilla, Creative Commons |
| Spouse |
Noura Ghazi (m. 2013) |
| Awards | Index on Censorship 2013 Digital Freedom Award |
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Bassel Khartabil (22 May 1981 – 3 October 2015; Arabic: باسل خرطبيل), also known as Bassel Safadi (Arabic: باسل صفدي), was a Palestinian Syrian open-source software developer. He was detained without trial by the Syrian government in 2012[3] and was secretly executed in 2015. Human rights organizations claim that he was detained for his activities in support of freedom of expression,[4] and the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention considered his detention to have been arbitrary.[3]
Khartabil was born in Damascus and 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[5] and was CTO of Al-Aous,[6] a publishing and research institution dedicated to archaeological sciences and arts in Syria. He has served as project lead and public affiliate for Creative Commons Syria,[7] and has contributed to Mozilla Firefox, Wikipedia, Openclipart, Fabricatorz, and Sharism.[8] He "is credited with opening up the Internet in Syria and vastly extending online access and knowledge to the Syrian people."[9]
His last work included an open, 3D virtual reconstruction[10][11] of the ancient city of Palmyra in Syria,[12] real time visualization, and development with Fabricatorz for the web programming framework Aiki Framework. This was later created and displayed in his honor.[13]
In 2018, the Bassel Khartabil Free Culture Fellowship was announced in Khartabil's memory.[14] The fellowship awards $50,000 and additional support to individuals developing open culture in their communities. The fellowship was created by Creative Commons, Fabricatorz Foundation, Jimmy Wales Foundation, Mozilla, #NEWPALMYRA, and Wikimedia.
- ^ "Bassel Khartabil: Syrian internet freedom activist 'executed'". BBC News. 2 August 2017.
- ^ "Syria: Extrajudicial execution of Bassel Khartabil a grim reminder of Syrian prison horrors". Amnesty International. 2 August 2017.
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
alkarama-1763was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Syria: Disclose Whereabouts of Detained Freedom of Expression Advocate". Human Rights Watch. 7 October 2015.
- ^ "Aiki lab".
- ^ الأوس للنشر. "الأوس للنشر". Archived from the original on 17 November 2015. Retrieved 4 July 2012.
- ^ "Syria - Creative Commons". wiki.creativecommons.org. Retrieved 15 December 2023.
- ^ "Threatened Voices | Bloggers | Bassel (Safadi) Khartabil". threatened.globalvoicesonline.org. Retrieved 15 December 2023.
- ^ "Request for Written Answer on the Question of the Imprisonment of Bassel Safadi Khartabil". European Parliament. 18 March 2014. Retrieved 9 April 2014.
- ^ "#NEWPALMYRA". newpalmyra.org.
- ^ Forte, Andrea; Andalibi, Nazanin; Greenstadt, Rachel (2017). "Privacy, Anonymity, and Perceived Risk in Open Collaboration". Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. CSCW '17. New York, NY, USA: ACM. pp. 1800–1811. doi:10.1145/2998181.2998273. ISBN 9781450343350. S2CID 16197512.
- ^ "Bassel Safadi discusses project involving 3D reconstruction of ancient city of Palmyra at San Francisco Art Institute, live from Syria via Skype". 19 May 2013. Retrieved 1 July 2013.
- ^ "How a 3D-printed monument is helping an ancient Syrian city rise again". CBC News. Retrieved 13 August 2017.
- ^ "Memorial Fund Grants Launched in Memory of Bassel Khartabil". 8 February 2018.