Bassel Khartabil

thumb|Khartabil, 2010 Bassel Khartabil (Arabic: باسل خرطبيل; May 22, 1981 – October 3, 2015) 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 claim 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. Quotations 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 at Twitter.com, cited in: Bassel Khartabil, Champion of open internet detained in Syria at indexoncensorship.org, 2013 Life is about relationships Tweet October 1, 2011, 10:22AM 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 Tweet March 12, 2012, 3:21PM at Twitter.com activists who think they are making changes in their countries are not. the people on the ground are the ones who make that #Syria Tweet Jan 31, 2012, 6:29AM at Twitter.com deleted my Yahoo, Hotmail, flickr, digg and stumbleupon accounts one way forward to social freedom Tweet Jan 21, 2012, 7:10AM at Twitter.com They can't stop us #Syria Tweet Dec 16, 2011, 6:06PM at Twitter.com My dear friend, a doctor and spokeperson of the Physicians' Coordinating Committee in Damascus was killed today by Syrian security forces Tweet Dec 10, 2011, 10:41AM 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 Tweet Oct 22, 2011 3:04PM 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 Tweet July 13, 2011 7:01AM at Twitter.com Facebook, youtube and Blogspot are officially unblocked in Syria now. YAY!! Tweet Feb 8, 2011 7:51AM at Twitter.com super excited about the change in Syria, no more blocking for social networks!! Tweet Feb 8, 2011 7:51AM at Twitter.com Bye! Bye! Flash http://www.youtube.com/html5 Tweet Dec 12, 2010, 12:45PM at Twitter.com Ideas hate conference rooms Tweet Nov 25, 2010, 7:12AM at Twitter.com Sorry, but your system does not meet the minimum system requirements to read this tweet Tweet Sept 22, 2010, 12:41PM at Twitter.com Trustonomy: the trust economy Tweet July 20, 2010, 1:08AM at Twitter.com Aiki lab is a place for sharing, creation, collaboration, research, development, mentoring, and of course, learning. Tweet July 14, 2010, 3:59AM at Twitter.com Hackerspaces are community-operated physical places, where people can meet and work on their projects Tweet July 14, 2010, 3:58AM at Twitter.com HackerSpaces are not for cracking, would you mind googlling that before writing complaints? Tweet July 14, 2010, 3:47AM at Twitter.com want to start building an open source cross-social-networks prediction RESTful API using aiki Tweet June 4, 2010, 11:29PM 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 Tweet May 10, 2010, 1:02PM 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 Tweet Jan 21, 2010, 1:17PM at Twitter.com Dubai is now reduced to its component sounds: do-buy Tweet Jan 6, 2010, 5:45PM 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? Tweet Dec 18, 2009, 12:47PM at Twitter.com Life is spent looking while never seeing Tweet Oct 02, 2009, 3:51AM 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 Tweet January 31, 2012 2:52PM at Twitter.com External links #FREEBASSEL campaign site Free Bassel on twitter twitter Category:Political activists Category:Activists from Syria Category:2015 deaths Category:Democracy activists Category:Programmers from Syria Category:Executed people‎