Bassel Khartabil
Bassel Khartabil, also known as Bassel Safadi, was a Palestinian-Syrian open-source software developer. He was detained without trial by the Syrian government in 2012 and was secretly executed in 2015. Human rights organizations say that he was detained for his activities in support of freedom of expression, and the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention considered his detention to have been arbitrary.
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- Born in
- Damascus
- Awards
- 🏆 Index Award
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Trending topics shown first"Got a legal approve from the Syrian government for Aiki Lab the first hackerspace in the Arab world. starting very soon in Damascus"
"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"
"want to start building an open source cross-social-networks prediction RESTful API using aiki"
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1981
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Birth2015
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