Bassel Khartabil, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Bassel Khartabil

free culture and democracy activist, Syrian political prisoner

Date of Birth: 22-May-1981

Place of Birth: Syria

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: engineer, computer scientist, software developer, software engineer, blogger, political activist, Wikipedian

Nationality: Syria

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Bassel Khartabil

  • Bassel Khartabil (Arabic: ???? ???????), also known as Bassel Safadi (Arabic: ???? ?????), (22 May 1981, Damascus – 3 October 2015) 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 (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 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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