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Bassel Khartabil , also known as Bassel Safadi , was a Palestinian Syrian open-source software developer. On 15 March 2012, the one-year anniversary of the Syrian uprising, he was detained by the Syrian government at Adra Prison in Damascus. Between then and 3 October 2015, he had been transferred to an unknown location, probably to be judged by a military court. On 7 October 2015, Human Rights Watch and 30 other human rights organizations issued a letter demanding that Khartabil's whereabouts be disclosed. On 11 November 2015, rumors surfaced that Khartabil had been secretly sentenced to death. In August 2017, his wife made public that Khartabil had been executed by the Syrian regime shortly after his disappearance in 2015.Khartabil was born in Damascus and raised in Syria, where he specialized in open source software development. He was chief technology officer 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 has served as project lead and public affiliate for Creative Commons Syria, and has contributed to Mozilla Firefox, Wikipedia, Openclipart, Fabricatorz, and Sharism. He "is credited with opening up the Internet in Syria and vastly extending online access and knowledge to the Syrian people."His last work included an open, 3D virtual reconstruction of the ancient city of Palmyra in Syria, real time visualization, and development with Fabricatorz for the web programming framework Aiki Framework. This was later created and displayed in his honor.On February 7, 2018, the Bassel Khartabil Free Culture Fellowship was announced in Bassel's memory. The fellowship awards $50,000, including additional support, to outstanding individuals developing open culture in their communities. The fellowship was created by Creative Commons, Fabricatorz Foundation, Jimmy Wales Foundation, Mozilla, #NEWPALMYRA, and Wikimedia.



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✵ 22. May 1981 – 2015
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Famous Bassel Khartabil Quotes

“Sorry, but your system does not meet the minimum system requirements to read this tweet”

Bassel Khartabil

Tweet Sept 22, 2010, 12:41PM https://twitter.com/basselsafadi/status/25239854023 at Twitter.com

“Enjoying Lebanese Internet :) I didn't think that one day would consider this as fast connection. but 30kbps is great comparing to #syria”

Bassel Khartabil

Tweet July 13, 2011 7:01AM https://twitter.com/basselsafadi/status/91145220875501568 at Twitter.com

“deleted my Yahoo, Hotmail, flickr, digg and stumbleupon accounts one way forward to social freedom”

Bassel Khartabil

Tweet Jan 21, 2012, 7:10AM https://twitter.com/basselsafadi/status/160740948375126016 at Twitter.com

“Facebook, youtube and Blogspot are officially unblocked in Syria now. YAY!!”

Bassel Khartabil

Tweet Feb 8, 2011 7:51AM https://twitter.com/basselsafadi/status/35002691436412928 at Twitter.com

“Trustonomy: the trust economy”

Bassel Khartabil

Tweet July 20, 2010, 1:08AM https://twitter.com/basselsafadi/status/18977653720 at Twitter.com

“Thanks to the way your brain is wired, you're likely to screw over your future in order to stay loyal to decisions you made in the past”

Bassel Khartabil

Tweet Jan 21, 2010, 1:17PM https://twitter.com/basselsafadi/status/8041907590 at Twitter.com

Bassel Khartabil Quotes about people

“Hackerspaces are community-operated physical places, where people can meet and work on their projects”

Bassel Khartabil

Tweet July 14, 2010, 3:58AM https://twitter.com/basselsafadi/status/18511089938 at Twitter.com

“Anybody who sends human aid, please make sure that it reaches hungry and homeless people not to people who will rent BMW M3”

Bassel Khartabil

Tweet January 31, 2012 2:52PM https://twitter.com/basselsafadi/status/164360388656369665 at Twitter.com

“The people who are in real danger never leave their countries. They are in danger for a reason and for that they don’t leave.”

Bassel Khartabil

Tweet Jan 31, 2012, 6:34AM https://twitter.com/basselsafadi/status/164355948582932480 at Twitter.com, cited in: Bassel Khartabil, Champion of open internet detained in Syria http://www.indexoncensorship.org/index-awards-2013/digital-freedom at indexoncensorship.org, 2013

“activists who think they are making changes in their countries are not. the people on the ground are the ones who make that #Syria”

Bassel Khartabil

Tweet Jan 31, 2012, 6:29AM https://twitter.com/basselsafadi/status/164354595982819329 at Twitter.com

Bassel Khartabil Quotes

“Life is about relationships”

Bassel Khartabil

Tweet October 1, 2011, 10:22AM https://twitter.com/basselsafadi/status/120186753205284864 at Twitter.com

“HackerSpaces are not for cracking, would you mind googlling that before writing complaints?”

Bassel Khartabil

Tweet July 14, 2010, 3:47AM https://twitter.com/basselsafadi/status/18510619141 at Twitter.com

“Ideas hate conference rooms”

Bassel Khartabil

Tweet Nov 25, 2010, 7:12AM https://twitter.com/basselsafadi/status/7813843816292353 at Twitter.com

“Got a legal approve from the Syrian government for Aiki Lab the first hackerspace in the Arab world. starting very soon in Damascus”

Bassel Khartabil

Tweet May 10, 2010, 1:02PM https://twitter.com/basselsafadi/status/15061612812 at Twitter.com

“Life is spent looking while never seeing”

Bassel Khartabil

Tweet Oct 02, 2009, 3:51AM https://twitter.com/basselsafadi/status/4549955344 at Twitter.com

“I don't get what is wrong with eating bad junky food all the time! benefits include dying earlier and saving at least 2 hours a day”

Bassel Khartabil

Tweet March 12, 2012, 3:21PM https://twitter.com/basselsafadi/status/177534469815795713 at Twitter.com

“Aiki lab is a place for sharing, creation, collaboration, research, development, mentoring, and of course, learning.”

Bassel Khartabil

Tweet July 14, 2010, 3:59AM https://twitter.com/basselsafadi/status/18511132112 at Twitter.com

“scs-net filter (Syrian version of the great firewall of china) is blocking everything. why we can't get a good internet connection in Syria?”

Bassel Khartabil

Tweet Dec 18, 2009, 12:47PM https://twitter.com/basselsafadi/status/6807864152 at Twitter.com

“Syrian Tweeps: there is a conf on human rights in silicon valley in 2 days let's use the hashtag #Rightscon to pressure them to unblock us”

Bassel Khartabil

Tweet Oct 22, 2011 3:04PM https://twitter.com/basselsafadi/status/127867840916242433 at Twitter.com

“super excited about the change in Syria, no more blocking for social networks!!”

Bassel Khartabil

Tweet Feb 8, 2011 7:51AM https://twitter.com/basselsafadi/status/35002871665659904 at Twitter.com

“Dubai is now reduced to its component sounds: do-buy”

Bassel Khartabil

Tweet Jan 6, 2010, 5:45PM https://twitter.com/basselsafadi/status/7462123817 at Twitter.com

“want to start building an open source cross-social-networks prediction RESTful API using aiki”

Bassel Khartabil

Tweet June 4, 2010, 11:29PM https://twitter.com/basselsafadi/status/15471274281 at Twitter.com

“They can't stop us #Syria”

Bassel Khartabil

Tweet Dec 16, 2011, 6:06PM https://twitter.com/basselsafadi/status/147860108393725952 at Twitter.com

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