Bassel Khartabil

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Bassel Khartabil

Bassel Khartabil , Arabic باسل خرطبيل Basil Chartabil , DMG Bāsil Ḫarṭabīl (also Bassel Safadi ,باسل الصفدي / Bāsil aṣ-Ṣafadī ; * May 22, 1981 ; † 2015 ), was a Syrian software developer of Palestinian origin, known for his contributions to open source software and free culture . On March 15, 2012, he was arrested in Damascus for allegedly "endangering the state". According to his wife, he was abducted and executed in 2015, which did not become known until 2017.

Life

Khartabil grew up in Syria. After completing his studies, he specialized in open source software. He was the CTO and founder of Aiki Lab and CTO of Al-Aous, an archeology and arts media organization in Syria. He worked as a project manager for Creative Commons Syria and was involved in projects such as Mozilla Firefox , Wikipedia , the Open Clip Art Library , Fabricatorz and Sharism . Most recently he worked on realistic 3D reconstructions of the ancient city of Palmyra .

Khartabil wanted to get married in April 2012. After his arrest became known in July 2012, a group of supporters and personalities launched a global campaign for his immediate release, which was picked up by international media such as Al Jazeera . In the 2012 list of Top Global Thinkers, Foreign Policy declared Bassel, together with Rima Dali, to be someone who “insists , against all odds, on a peaceful Syrian Revolution ”. On January 7, 2013, Khartabil was allowed to marry in prison after his family had visited him for the first time a few days earlier.

On October 3, 2015, Bassel Khartabil was taken from prison in Adra , northeast of Damascus , to an undisclosed location where, as his supporters feared, he was threatened with a trial by a military tribunal .

Several human rights organizations reported on November 20, 2015 that his wife had received news from Syrian security authorities that her husband had been sentenced to death . In August 2017, it became known that Bassel Khartabil had been executed shortly after he was abducted in 2015 .

Commemoration

A Free Culture Fellowship program was named after Bassel Khartabil, which aims to support those working in the arts and the media who work under adverse circumstances. Creative Commons, Mozilla , the Wikimedia Foundation , the Jimmy Wales Foundation, #NEWPALMYRA, GlobalVoices and other organizations support and fund the program.

Web links

Commons : Bassel Khartabil  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Horrific: Reports did Bassel Khartabil Has Been Executed in Syria . In: Jimmy Wales Foundation . August 1, 2017 ( online [accessed August 1, 2017]).
  2. ↑ hackerspaces.org
  3. ↑ الأوس للنشر: الأوس للنشر. In: al-aous.com. Retrieved August 2, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Syria. In: creativecommons.org. Retrieved August 2, 2017 .
  5. ^ Campaign Launched to Bring Home Loved and Celebrated Internet Volunteer Detained in Syria. FreeBassel.org, accessed July 5, 2012 .
  6. ↑ Activists launch #FREEBASSEL campaign to bring about release of Syrian web entrepreneur, well-known in technology communities. In: al-Jazeera . July 4, 2012, Retrieved July 5, 2012 .
  7. ^ Eva Galperin: Open Source Developer Bassel Khartabil Detained in Syria. Electronic Frontier Foundation, accessed July 5, 2012 .
  8. ↑ The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers: 19 RIMA DALI, BASSEL KHARTABIL. Foreign Policy, November 26, 2012; archived from the original on December 2, 2012 ; accessed on September 28, 2019 (original website no longer available).
  9. ↑ The story of Bassel Khartabil: He lives for the free Internet - and risks dying for it. Retrieved August 12, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Amira Al Hussaini: Fears for Imprisoned Syrian Blogger Bassel Khartabil, Transferred to an Unknown Location. Global Voices, accessed October 3, 2015 .
  11. ↑ Syria: Renowned network activist sentenced to death. Retrieved August 2, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Honoring our friend Bassel: Announcing the Bassel Khartabil Free Culture Fellowship , blog of the Wikimedia Foundation on August 11, 2017, accessed on August 12, 2017
  13. ↑ Call for Applications: Bassel Khartabil Free Culture Fellowship at creativecommons.org, accessed on March 3, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Khartabil, Bassel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Safadi, Bassel; Arabic باسل خرطبيل
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Syrian software developer
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1981
DATE OF DEATH 2015