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Murder, Censorship and Syria: Crypto and the Future of Uprisings

Murder, Censorship and Syria: Crypto and the Future of Uprisings

Rachel-Rose O’Leary is a reporter at CoinDesk, covering how cryptocurrencies are being used in areas of economic, social and political unrest.

This article is part of her ongoing dispatches from Rojava, Syria. 

In August 2011, a hackerspace in Damascus, Syria, was stormed by armed guards.

Known as Aikilab, the guards stripped the place; televisions, computers and even couches were now gone. Once…

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Death of an Internet Freedom Fighter

Death of an Internet Freedom Fighter

“We are heartbroken to share the news that Bassel Khartabil was executed by the Syrian government some time after his disappearance in October 2015 in Damascus, Syria.

“Bassel Khartabil, also known as Bassel Safadi, was born in Damascus, Syria on May 22, 1981. He grew up to pursue an education and career in computer engineering. He was the co-founder of the collaborative research company Aiki…

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Internet Freedom Fighter Bassel Khartabil

"As long as you people out there are doing what you are doing, my soul is free." 

—(excerpt from a letter published by EFF)

Bassel Khartabil was a Palestinian Syrian open-source software developer "credited with opening up the Internet in Syria and vastly extending online access and knowledge to the Syrian people."

Chief technology officer and co-founder of collaborative research company Aiki Lab, CTO of Al-Aous, a publishing and research institution dedicated to archaeological sciences and arts in Syria, Bassel also served as project lead and public affiliate for Creative Commons Syria, contributing to Mozilla Firefox, Wikipedia, Openclipart, Fabricatorz, and Sharism.

From March 15, 2012, the one-year anniversary of the Syrian uprising, he was detained by the Syrian government at Adra Prison in Damascus.

 In August 2017, it was revealed that Khartabil had been executed by the Syrian regime shortly after his disappearance in 2015.

[bio condensed from Wikipedia.]

photo by Joi Ito, released under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License

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Bassel Khartabil: Still Not Free Today is the Third of May, Unesco’s Press Freedom Day.   Because I am an author who believes in democracy, free speech is very important to me. But as a blogger and activist, I can tell you free speech needs Press Freedom too.   The first time I wrote about Press Freedom Day was in 2013, and at the time I mentioned Bassel Khartabil, a Syrian software developer and free culture advocate who had been unjustly detained for over a year, without trial or any legal charges being brought against him.   And now it is 2016, and Bassel is still not free.  Instead his whereabouts are now unknown, amid rumours he has been secretly sentenced to death.   Sign the letter at http://freebassel.org/ and maybe this year this young man can finally be freed.  

Bassel Khartabil photograph by Kristina Alexanderson is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) License

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A Jailed Activist’s 3-D Models Could Save Syria’s History From ISIS

ISIS is destroying the ancient city of Palmyra. Now a new group hopes to virtually preserve it with files created by imprisoned activist Bassel Khartabil.

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عندما يكون الحب مُتواجداً فليس هنالك داع للإعتذار لأن المحب يفهمك دائماً ... هكذا نجد أنه ليس هنالك مبادئ أخلاقية أعلى من الحب.

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Si teme per la vita di Bassel Khartabil, programmatore siriano incarcerato, trasferito in località sconosciuta

Si teme per la vita di Bassel Khartabil, programmatore siriano incarcerato, trasferito in località sconosciuta

Il manifesto FreeBassel (liberate Bassel) traatto dall’account @freebassel su Twitter. Bassel Safadi è tenuto prigioniero in Siria da quasi quattro anni. Amici e attivisti temono per la sua vita in seguito al traferimento verso una destinazione ignota, avvenuto il 3 Ottobre

Gli attivisti chiedono al governo siriano l’immediato rilascio del programmatore siro-palestinese Bassel Khartabil[it],…

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