“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.”

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

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free culture and democracy activist, Syrian political priso… 1981–2015

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