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Bassel Khartabil

January 01, 1970

Bassel Khartabil (22 May 1981 – 3 October 2015; Arabic: باسل خرطبيل), also known as Bassel Safadi (Arabic: باسل صفدي), was a Palestinian Syrian open-source software developer. He was detained without trial by the Syrian government in 2012[3] and was secretly executed in 2015. Human rights organizations claim that he was detained for his activities in support of freedom of expression,[4] and the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention considered his detention to have been arbitrary.[3]

Bassel Khartabil
باسل خرطبيل
Born(1981-05-22)22 May 1981
Damascus, Syria
Died3 October 2015(2015-10-03) (aged 34)[1][2]
Adra Prison, Syria
OccupationSoftware engineer
Known forAiki Framework, Openclipart, Open Font Library, Fabricatorz, Mozilla, Creative Commons
Spouse
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(m. 2013)​
AwardsIndex on Censorship 2013 Digital Freedom Award
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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[5] and was CTO of Al-Aous,[6] 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,[7] and has contributed to Mozilla Firefox, Wikipedia, Openclipart, Fabricatorz, and Sharism.[8] He "is credited with opening up the Internet in Syria and vastly extending online access and knowledge to the Syrian people."[9]

His last work included an open, 3D virtual reconstruction[10][11] of the ancient city of Palmyra in Syria,[12] real time visualization, and development with Fabricatorz for the web programming framework Aiki Framework. This was later created and displayed in his honor.[13]

In 2018, the Bassel Khartabil Free Culture Fellowship was announced in Khartabil's memory.[14] The fellowship awards $50,000 and additional support to individuals developing open culture in their communities. The fellowship was created by Creative Commons, Fabricatorz Foundation, Jimmy Wales Foundation, Mozilla, #NEWPALMYRA, and Wikimedia.

Personal life edit

Khartabil was arrested a few days before his marriage contract to Noura Ghazi, a lawyer and human rights activist, was to be signed. The contract was finalized later that year, while Khartabil was in prison. The couple first met in Douma in April 2011 after coming back from a demonstration.[15]

On Valentine's Day 2015, Ghazi made public a love letter she wrote to Khartabil, where she reflects on what has taken place in Syria in the time he had been imprisoned:

Bassel, I am very afraid, I am afraid about the country that is being slaughtered, divided, bleeding, being destroyed.. Ouch Bassel, I am very afraid that our dream is changing from seeing ourselves being the generation freeing their country to the one witnessing its destruction. Ouch Bassel, I am very afraid …

— Noura Ghazi, A Love Letter to Jailed Syrian-Palestinian Bassel Khartabil[16]

Awards edit

 
WPAP Art by Miald Amin

For its 2012 list of Top Global Thinkers, Foreign Policy named Khartabil together with Rima Dali as #19 for "insisting, against all odds, on a peaceful Syrian revolution."[17]

On 21 March 2013 Khartabil was awarded Index on Censorship's Digital Freedom Award.[18][19] Although still detained at the time in Adra Prison, Khartabil was able to communicate his gratitude through Dana Trometer and Jon Phillips receiving the award on his behalf, wherein he paid "respect to all the victims of the struggle for freedom of speech, and, especially for those non-violent youths who refused to carry arms and deserve all the credit for this award."[20]

Imprisonment edit

On 15 March 2012, Khartabil was detained amid arrests in the Mazzeh district of Damascus by Military Security Branch 215.[3] That day marked the one-year anniversary of the Syrian uprising, with pro- and anti-government protesters demonstrating in Damascus and elsewhere in the country.[21]

Khartabil was interrogated and allegedly tortured for five days by Military Branch 215[citation needed]. One week after his arrest, security forces reportedly took him to his home where they confiscated his computers and his files. He was then transferred to the Interrogation Division Branch 248 and detained there incommunicado for 9 months. On 9 December 2012, Khartabil was brought before a military prosecutor who charged him with "spying for an enemy State" under Articles 272 and 274 of the Syrian Criminal Code. Khartabil was then sent to the Adra Prison in Damascus.[3]

On 12 December 2013, a request for written answer on the question of Khartabil's imprisonment was raised before the European Parliament to the Commission (Vice-President/High Representative), stating that "his voluntary work, always non-violent in nature, was greatly valued by Syrians of all backgrounds, and it is strongly suspected that his arrest was part of an effort to restrict access to online communities and discourses and stifle free expression in Syria."[22] On 18 March 2014, the written answer from High Representative/Vice-President Catherine Ashton was published, stating that "The HR/VP deplores the ongoing imprisonment of Bassel Safadi Khartabil, shares the concerns at his situation and follows it very closely."[23]

On 21 April 2015, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) adopted an opinion on Khartabil's case, calling his detention "arbitrary" and asking for his immediate release.[3][24] The WGAD concluded that Kharbatil's detention violated Articles 9, 14 and 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which Syria ratified in 1969.

Prison paintings edit

While Khartabil was in prison he made paintings, four of which have been smuggled out.

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    June 17, 2015, Damascus Central Jail "An attempt to draw a stereotype. This is the stereotype I have in mind for the deformed souls, I have to deal with every day at jail. There are a lot of them."
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    July 10, 2015, Damascus Central Jail. "From time to time I resurrect old black and white dreams from my childhood memories."
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    June 15, 2015, Damascus Central Jail "What is this dream I see every night? A web? Black lines? A tunnel? Or some memories from my childhood?
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    July 11, 2015, Damascus Central Jail "an uneasy or anxious feeling..."

#FREEBASSEL campaign edit

After his detention became widely known in early July 2012, a global campaign was launched calling for his immediate release.[25][26][27] Notable Internet companies like Mozilla,[28][29] Wikipedia, Global Voices,[30] EFF[31] and Creative Commons[32][33] wrote letters to the Syrian government urging his immediate release. Notable individuals including Lawrence Lessig,[34] Joi Ito,[35][36] Mitchell Baker,[37] Jillian York,[38][39] Mohamed Nanabhay[40] and Barry Threw[41] wrote public letters of support. Al Jazeera,[42] Framablog,[43] and Hacker News[44] wrote about the effort.

In October 2012, Amnesty International released a document with information suggesting that Khartabil has been ill-treated and even tortured.[45][46] On 23 October, the Taiwan chapter of Amnesty International led a letter-writing event at Insomnia Cafe to raise awareness about Khartabil in Taipei, Taiwan.[47][48][49] On 26 November, he was named one of the top 100 global thinkers by Foreign Policy for his resistance.[50]

In December, he was moved to a military prison to await a military trial.[51][52] In response, a fasting campaign was launched to raise awareness about Khartabil's deteriorating incarceration situation.[53] On 25 January 2013, reports circulated about the pending trial and fears of his execution.[54] On 15 March[55] the #FREEBASSEL project organized a #FREEBASSELDAY campaign with Creative Commons, Mozilla, and other community leaders, leading to public artworks, meetups, press, and videos.[56][57][58][59][60][61]

 
Poster of the #FREEBASSEL campaign

On 22 May, commemorating Khartabil's 32nd birthday—the second time he spent a birthday in prison as well as the 799th day of the Syrian conflict—the Index on Censorship,[62][63] Creative Commons,[64] and the #FREEBASSEL campaign launched Project Sunlight,[65] to uncover more information about Khartabil's condition and location.[66] His mother wrote, "I just want him free, I pray for him to be free and I pray for all his friends who believe and work on Bassel's freedom."[67]

At the Index on Censorship Awards, Jon Phillips said of Khartabil

Locking up Bassel only locks out his personal freedom. By locking up Bassel, his Syrian captors are accidentally locking out themselves from the future...thousands of people that Bassel's work helped, now help him by spreading the message #FREEBASSEL. This is what truly builds Syria and connects it to the global connected future. This award proves that his lock-up, is NOT a lock-out of his digital freedom.[68]

A letter supporting him was sent to the European Union Parliament later that year.[69]

In 2014, Marc Weidenbaum gathered participants to create 38 musical pieces that might be used as a soundscape for an immersive, completed digital visualization of ancient Palmyra.[70] A second iteration of #FREEBASSELDAY involved a Wikipedia "edit-a-thon", meetups, the creation of a cookbook in Khartabil's honor, and press mentions.[71]

 
The Free Bassel website as of January 2017

Rebecca MacKinnon wrote about Khartabil and the Zone 9 Bloggers in the World Policy Journal,[72] and Wikipedia hosted an editathon for Zone 9 bloggers.[73] On Human Rights Day, Global Voices led a campaign to raise awareness about his imprisonment.[74][75][76]

In March 2015, the Electronic Frontier Foundation hosted a Wikipedia edit-a-thon for #FREEBASSELDAY.[77][78] In addition, the Creative Commons Arab World organized a virtual Arabic Wikipedia edit-a-thon to translate and expand pages related to Khartabil and his interests.[79][80] He was later profiled[81] with the launch[82] of the EFF's Offline[83] project, "sharing the stories of imprisoned technologists and technology users."[82]

In 2017, the #FREEBASSEL campaign asked supporters to do five public acts in honor of Khartabil, to be posted on social media.[84]

Transfer and execution edit

On 12 September 2015, Jaysh al-Islam shelled and stormed the prison, taking control of two buildings.[85][86] Until early October Khartabil was still in Adra Prison in the suburbs of Damascus, Syria.[3] By 3 October, military police took him from his cell in Adra with a 'top secret' sealed order from the Military Field Court.[87] He was transferred to an unknown location.[88][89]

On 6 October, Amnesty International released a new report on Khartabil's status.[90] A day later, Human Rights Watch and 30 other human rights organizations issued a letter demanding that Khartabil's whereabouts be disclosed.[4] On 17 October, Creative Commons Board of Directors approved a resolution calling for Khartabil's release.[91] On 21 October, the New Palmyra project was launched to carry on his 3D modeling work and other creative uses of data about Palmyra.[92][93] A day later, the MIT Media Lab offered Khartabil a position of research scientist at the Center for Civic Media to work with Ethan Zuckerman on projects to make Syria's history available to the world.[94][95] On 9 November, an anthology of essays in Khartabil's honor, entitled The Cost of Freedom: A Collective Inquiry, was released under a Creative Commons public domain license.[96][97] Two days afterward, unconfirmed rumors surfaced that Khartabil had been sentenced to death.[98][99]

In August 2017, Khartabil's wife and friends reported they had seen a copy of official documents confirming he had been executed after his transfer from Adra prison in 2015.[100]

Response edit

The Electronic Frontier Foundation[101] and the Wikimedia Foundation[102] as well as Global Voices[103] released statements mourning his loss.

Creative Commons announced the creation of the Bassel Khartabil Memorial Fund, to support projects in line with his ideas and work throughout his life.[104] On 11 August, the Mozilla Foundation announced the creation of the Bassel Khartabil Free Culture Fellowship, organized for an initial period of three years by Mozilla, Wikimedia Foundation, Creative Commons, the Jimmy Wales Foundation, #NEWPALMYRA and other groups. It is aimed at supporting individuals developing free culture, particularly under adverse circumstances.[105]

Year Fellow Fellowship Goal
2020 Dr. Tarek Loubani and glia.org Combat COVID-19[106]
2018 Majd Al-shihabi projects Palestine Open Maps and MASRAD:platform, an oral history archive[107]

Works edit

Models of ancient Palmyra edit

Main article: New Palmyra Project
 
A digital reconstruction of the Temple of Bel from the New Palmyra project

Starting in 2005, Khartabil began collecting photographs of the ancient architecture and archaeology sites in Palmyra, in the hopes of reconstructing the city online, using 3D models and virtual spaces.

His efforts were put on hold when he was imprisoned, and some of his early work was lost. In 2015 his friends and colleagues launched the New Palmyra Project to bring that dream to life. Since then, many of the most famous structures in Palmyra have been modeled, and some life-size models built of structures that were destroyed in the Syrian Civil War.

As of 2017, most of the buildings and statues captured by the New Palmyra Project have been completely destroyed by ISIL.

Writing and art edit

Khartabil wrote hundreds of letters while in prison, including some while he was in a high-security military prison, where writing was prohibited. He also produced some paintings and poetry. For a short time, he published some of his writing to an anonymous prison blog[108] and Twitter account, via a friend.

"Jail is not walls, not the executioner and guards. It is the hidden fear in our hearts that makes us prisoners."

In his last year in prison, he made a series of at least four paintings that he was able to smuggle out to friends.

See also edit

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External links edit

  • #FREEBASSEL
  • Interview with Bassel about the role of Creative Commons in the Arab world (in Arabic)
  • Podcast Interview with Bassel and Jon Phillips on hackerspaces and making culture in the Arab world 5 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  • Statement by US Secretary of State, John Kerry

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Some of this article s listed sources may not be reliable Please help improve this article by looking for better more reliable sources Unreliable citations may be challenged and removed January 2023 Learn how and when to remove this message Bassel Khartabil 22 May 1981 3 October 2015 Arabic باسل خرطبيل also known as Bassel Safadi Arabic باسل صفدي was a Palestinian Syrian open source software developer He was detained without trial by the Syrian government in 2012 3 and was secretly executed in 2015 Human rights organizations claim that he was detained for his activities in support of freedom of expression 4 and the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention considered his detention to have been arbitrary 3 Bassel Khartabilباسل خرطبيلBorn 1981 05 22 22 May 1981Damascus SyriaDied3 October 2015 2015 10 03 aged 34 1 2 Adra Prison SyriaOccupationSoftware engineerKnown forAiki Framework Openclipart Open Font Library Fabricatorz Mozilla Creative CommonsSpouseNoura Ghazi m 2013 wbr AwardsIndex on Censorship 2013 Digital Freedom AwardSignature 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 5 and was CTO of Al Aous 6 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 7 and has contributed to Mozilla Firefox Wikipedia Openclipart Fabricatorz and Sharism 8 He is credited with opening up the Internet in Syria and vastly extending online access and knowledge to the Syrian people 9 His last work included an open 3D virtual reconstruction 10 11 of the ancient city of Palmyra in Syria 12 real time visualization and development with Fabricatorz for the web programming framework Aiki Framework This was later created and displayed in his honor 13 In 2018 the Bassel Khartabil Free Culture Fellowship was announced in Khartabil s memory 14 The fellowship awards 50 000 and additional support to individuals developing open culture in their communities The fellowship was created by Creative Commons Fabricatorz Foundation Jimmy Wales Foundation Mozilla NEWPALMYRA and Wikimedia Contents 1 Personal life 2 Awards 3 Imprisonment 3 1 Prison paintings 3 2 FREEBASSEL campaign 3 3 Transfer and execution 3 4 Response 4 Works 4 1 Models of ancient Palmyra 4 2 Writing and art 5 See also 6 References 7 External linksPersonal life editKhartabil was arrested a few days before his marriage contract to Noura Ghazi a lawyer and human rights activist was to be signed The contract was finalized later that year while Khartabil was in prison The couple first met in Douma in April 2011 after coming back from a demonstration 15 On Valentine s Day 2015 Ghazi made public a love letter she wrote to Khartabil where she reflects on what has taken place in Syria in the time he had been imprisoned Bassel I am very afraid I am afraid about the country that is being slaughtered divided bleeding being destroyed Ouch Bassel I am very afraid that our dream is changing from seeing ourselves being the generation freeing their country to the one witnessing its destruction Ouch Bassel I am very afraid Noura Ghazi A Love Letter to Jailed Syrian Palestinian Bassel Khartabil 16 Awards edit nbsp WPAP Art by Miald Amin For its 2012 list of Top Global Thinkers Foreign Policy named Khartabil together with Rima Dali as 19 for insisting against all odds on a peaceful Syrian revolution 17 On 21 March 2013 Khartabil was awarded Index on Censorship s Digital Freedom Award 18 19 Although still detained at the time in Adra Prison Khartabil was able to communicate his gratitude through Dana Trometer and Jon Phillips receiving the award on his behalf wherein he paid respect to all the victims of the struggle for freedom of speech and especially for those non violent youths who refused to carry arms and deserve all the credit for this award 20 Imprisonment editOn 15 March 2012 Khartabil was detained amid arrests in the Mazzeh district of Damascus by Military Security Branch 215 3 That day marked the one year anniversary of the Syrian uprising with pro and anti government protesters demonstrating in Damascus and elsewhere in the country 21 Khartabil was interrogated and allegedly tortured for five days by Military Branch 215 citation needed One week after his arrest security forces reportedly took him to his home where they confiscated his computers and his files He was then transferred to the Interrogation Division Branch 248 and detained there incommunicado for 9 months On 9 December 2012 Khartabil was brought before a military prosecutor who charged him with spying for an enemy State under Articles 272 and 274 of the Syrian Criminal Code Khartabil was then sent to the Adra Prison in Damascus 3 On 12 December 2013 a request for written answer on the question of Khartabil s imprisonment was raised before the European Parliament to the Commission Vice President High Representative stating that his voluntary work always non violent in nature was greatly valued by Syrians of all backgrounds and it is strongly suspected that his arrest was part of an effort to restrict access to online communities and discourses and stifle free expression in Syria 22 On 18 March 2014 the written answer from High Representative Vice President Catherine Ashton was published stating that The HR VP deplores the ongoing imprisonment of Bassel Safadi Khartabil shares the concerns at his situation and follows it very closely 23 On 21 April 2015 the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention WGAD adopted an opinion on Khartabil s case calling his detention arbitrary and asking for his immediate release 3 24 The WGAD concluded that Kharbatil s detention violated Articles 9 14 and 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights ICCPR which Syria ratified in 1969 Prison paintings edit While Khartabil was in prison he made paintings four of which have been smuggled out nbsp June 17 2015 Damascus Central Jail An attempt to draw a stereotype This is the stereotype I have in mind for the deformed souls I have to deal with every day at jail There are a lot of them nbsp July 10 2015 Damascus Central Jail From time to time I resurrect old black and white dreams from my childhood memories nbsp June 15 2015 Damascus Central Jail What is this dream I see every night A web Black lines A tunnel Or some memories from my childhood nbsp July 11 2015 Damascus Central Jail an uneasy or anxious feeling FREEBASSEL campaign edit After his detention became widely known in early July 2012 a global campaign was launched calling for his immediate release 25 26 27 Notable Internet companies like Mozilla 28 29 Wikipedia Global Voices 30 EFF 31 and Creative Commons 32 33 wrote letters to the Syrian government urging his immediate release Notable individuals including Lawrence Lessig 34 Joi Ito 35 36 Mitchell Baker 37 Jillian York 38 39 Mohamed Nanabhay 40 and Barry Threw 41 wrote public letters of support Al Jazeera 42 Framablog 43 and Hacker News 44 wrote about the effort In October 2012 Amnesty International released a document with information suggesting that Khartabil has been ill treated and even tortured 45 46 On 23 October the Taiwan chapter of Amnesty International led a letter writing event at Insomnia Cafe to raise awareness about Khartabil in Taipei Taiwan 47 48 49 On 26 November he was named one of the top 100 global thinkers by Foreign Policy for his resistance 50 In December he was moved to a military prison to await a military trial 51 52 In response a fasting campaign was launched to raise awareness about Khartabil s deteriorating incarceration situation 53 On 25 January 2013 reports circulated about the pending trial and fears of his execution 54 On 15 March 55 the FREEBASSEL project organized a FREEBASSELDAY campaign with Creative Commons Mozilla and other community leaders leading to public artworks meetups press and videos 56 57 58 59 60 61 nbsp Poster of the FREEBASSEL campaign On 22 May commemorating Khartabil s 32nd birthday the second time he spent a birthday in prison as well as the 799th day of the Syrian conflict the Index on Censorship 62 63 Creative Commons 64 and the FREEBASSEL campaign launched Project Sunlight 65 to uncover more information about Khartabil s condition and location 66 His mother wrote I just want him free I pray for him to be free and I pray for all his friends who believe and work on Bassel s freedom 67 At the Index on Censorship Awards Jon Phillips said of KhartabilLocking up Bassel only locks out his personal freedom By locking up Bassel his Syrian captors are accidentally locking out themselves from the future thousands of people that Bassel s work helped now help him by spreading the message FREEBASSEL This is what truly builds Syria and connects it to the global connected future This award proves that his lock up is NOT a lock out of his digital freedom 68 A letter supporting him was sent to the European Union Parliament later that year 69 In 2014 Marc Weidenbaum gathered participants to create 38 musical pieces that might be used as a soundscape for an immersive completed digital visualization of ancient Palmyra 70 A second iteration of FREEBASSELDAY involved a Wikipedia edit a thon meetups the creation of a cookbook in Khartabil s honor and press mentions 71 nbsp The Free Bassel website as of January 2017 Rebecca MacKinnon wrote about Khartabil and the Zone 9 Bloggers in the World Policy Journal 72 and Wikipedia hosted an editathon for Zone 9 bloggers 73 On Human Rights Day Global Voices led a campaign to raise awareness about his imprisonment 74 75 76 In March 2015 the Electronic Frontier Foundation hosted a Wikipedia edit a thon for FREEBASSELDAY 77 78 In addition the Creative Commons Arab World organized a virtual Arabic Wikipedia edit a thon to translate and expand pages related to Khartabil and his interests 79 80 He was later profiled 81 with the launch 82 of the EFF s Offline 83 project sharing the stories of imprisoned technologists and technology users 82 In 2017 the FREEBASSEL campaign asked supporters to do five public acts in honor of Khartabil to be posted on social media 84 Transfer and execution edit On 12 September 2015 Jaysh al Islam shelled and stormed the prison taking control of two buildings 85 86 Until early October Khartabil was still in Adra Prison in the suburbs of Damascus Syria 3 By 3 October military police took him from his cell in Adra with a top secret sealed order from the Military Field Court 87 He was transferred to an unknown location 88 89 On 6 October Amnesty International released a new report on Khartabil s status 90 A day later Human Rights Watch and 30 other human rights organizations issued a letter demanding that Khartabil s whereabouts be disclosed 4 On 17 October Creative Commons Board of Directors approved a resolution calling for Khartabil s release 91 On 21 October the New Palmyra project was launched to carry on his 3D modeling work and other creative uses of data about Palmyra 92 93 A day later the MIT Media Lab offered Khartabil a position of research scientist at the Center for Civic Media to work with Ethan Zuckerman on projects to make Syria s history available to the world 94 95 On 9 November an anthology of essays in Khartabil s honor entitled The Cost of Freedom A Collective Inquiry was released under a Creative Commons public domain license 96 97 Two days afterward unconfirmed rumors surfaced that Khartabil had been sentenced to death 98 99 In August 2017 Khartabil s wife and friends reported they had seen a copy of official documents confirming he had been executed after his transfer from Adra prison in 2015 100 Response edit The Electronic Frontier Foundation 101 and the Wikimedia Foundation 102 as well as Global Voices 103 released statements mourning his loss Creative Commons announced the creation of the Bassel Khartabil Memorial Fund to support projects in line with his ideas and work throughout his life 104 On 11 August the Mozilla Foundation announced the creation of the Bassel Khartabil Free Culture Fellowship organized for an initial period of three years by Mozilla Wikimedia Foundation Creative Commons the Jimmy Wales Foundation NEWPALMYRA and other groups It is aimed at supporting individuals developing free culture particularly under adverse circumstances 105 Year Fellow Fellowship Goal 2020 Dr Tarek Loubani and glia org Combat COVID 19 106 2018 Majd Al shihabi projects Palestine Open Maps and MASRAD platform an oral history archive 107 Works editModels of ancient Palmyra edit Main article New Palmyra Project nbsp A digital reconstruction of the Temple of Bel from the New Palmyra project Starting in 2005 Khartabil began collecting photographs of the ancient architecture and archaeology sites in Palmyra in the hopes of reconstructing the city online using 3D models and virtual spaces His efforts were put on hold when he was imprisoned and some of his early work was lost In 2015 his friends and colleagues launched the New Palmyra Project to bring that dream to life Since then many of the most famous structures in Palmyra have been modeled and some life size models built of structures that were destroyed in the Syrian Civil War As of 2017 most of the buildings and statues captured by the New Palmyra Project have been completely destroyed by ISIL Writing and art edit Khartabil wrote hundreds of letters while in prison including some while he was in a high security military prison where writing was prohibited He also produced some paintings and poetry For a short time he published some of his writing to an anonymous prison blog 108 and Twitter account via a friend Jail is not walls not the executioner and guards It is the hidden fear in our hearts that makes us prisoners In his last year in prison he made a series of at least four paintings that he was able to smuggle out to friends See also editList of Wikipedia peopleReferences edit Bassel Khartabil Syrian internet freedom activist executed BBC News 2 August 2017 Syria Extrajudicial execution of Bassel Khartabil a grim reminder of Syrian prison horrors Amnesty International 2 August 2017 a b c d e f UN Calls for the Release of Freedom of Speech Advocate Bassel Khartabil Alkarama 23 June 2015 Archived from the original on 25 June 2015 Retrieved 25 June 2015 a b Syria Disclose Whereabouts of Detained Freedom of Expression Advocate Human Rights Watch 7 October 2015 Aiki lab الأوس للنشر الأوس للنشر Archived from the original on 17 November 2015 Retrieved 4 July 2012 Syria Creative Commons wiki creativecommons org Retrieved 15 December 2023 Threatened Voices Bloggers Bassel Safadi Khartabil threatened globalvoicesonline org Retrieved 15 December 2023 Request for Written Answer on the Question of the Imprisonment of Bassel Safadi Khartabil European Parliament 18 March 2014 Retrieved 9 April 2014 NEWPALMYRA newpalmyra org Forte Andrea Andalibi Nazanin Greenstadt Rachel 2017 Privacy Anonymity and Perceived Risk in Open Collaboration Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing CSCW 17 New York NY USA ACM pp 1800 1811 doi 10 1145 2998181 2998273 ISBN 9781450343350 S2CID 16197512 Bassel Safadi discusses project involving 3D reconstruction of ancient city of Palmyra at San Francisco Art Institute live from Syria via Skype 19 May 2013 Retrieved 1 July 2013 How a 3D printed monument is helping an ancient Syrian city rise again CBC News Retrieved 13 August 2017 Memorial Fund Grants Launched in Memory of Bassel Khartabil 8 February 2018 Stories from the Syrian Revolution Love in the Time of Revolution is a Revolution Free Syrian Translators 1 September 2013 Retrieved 15 March 2014 A Love Letter to Jailed Syrian Palestinian Bassel Khartabil Global Voices 23 February 2015 Retrieved 15 March 2015 The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers 19 RIMA DALI BASSEL KHARTABIL Foreign Policy 26 November 2012 Retrieved 9 December 2014 Imprisoned internet pioneer Bassel Khartabil wins Index on Censorship Digital Freedom Award Creative Commons 21 March 2013 Retrieved 21 March 2013 Bassel Khartabil Wins Index on Censorship Digital Freedom Award Fabricatorz 21 March 2013 Archived from the original on 10 May 2013 Retrieved 21 March 2013 Winners Index Awards 2013 Index on Censorship 21 March 2013 Retrieved 21 March 2013 As revolt against Assad enters 2nd year up to 500 000 Syrians may flee crackdown Al Arabiya 15 March 2012 Retrieved 5 July 2012 Request for Written Answer on the Question of the Imprisonment of Bassel Safadi Khartabil European Parliament 12 December 2013 Retrieved 15 March 2014 Answer given by High Representative Vice President Ashton on behalf of the Commission on the Question of the Imprisonment of Bassel Safadi Khartabil European Parliament 18 March 2014 Retrieved 9 April 2014 Netizen Report U K Spied on Human Rights Organizations in Egypt South Africa Slate 24 June 2015 Retrieved 25 June 2015 Activists launch FREEBASSEL campaign to bring about release of Syrian web entrepreneur well known in technology communities Al Jazeera 4 July 2012 Retrieved 5 July 2012 Galperin Eva 4 July 2012 Open Source Developer Bassel Khartabil Detained in Syria Electronic Frontier Foundation Retrieved 5 July 2012 Wang Rong Chu Kar Hai 17 April 2017 Networked publics and the organizing of collective action on Twitter Examining the Freebassel campaign Convergence The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 25 3 393 408 doi 10 1177 1354856517703974 PMC 6756764 PMID 31548831 McAllister Neil Mozilla Foundation and EFF join hunt for Syrian open source developer The Register Retrieved 6 July 2012 Tam Donna 11 July 2012 Free software activists hope for detained engineer s freedom The Register Retrieved 3 April 2015 Bassel Safadi Khartabil Global Voices 4 July 2012 Retrieved 3 April 2015 Bassel Khartabil Letter of Support freebassel org 30 March 2012 Archived from the original on 4 March 2016 Retrieved 27 March 2015 Ito Joi 29 June 2012 Please help us Free Bassel open source developer and CC volunteer Creative Commons Retrieved 3 April 2015 Re Call for the release of Bassel Khartabil freebassel org 29 March 2012 Archived from the original on 2 April 2015 Retrieved 27 March 2015 Lessig Lawrence 4 July 2012 On the fight for liberty 4 July 2012 Lawrence Lessig Retrieved 3 April 2015 Ito Joi 29 June 2012 Please help us Free Bassel open source developer and CC volunteer Lawrence Lessig Retrieved 3 April 2015 Ito Joi 29 June 2012 クリエイティブ コモンズのボランティアでもあるオープンソース開発者 Bassel氏解放への支援呼びかけ Joi Ito Retrieved 3 April 2015 Baker Mitchell 5 July 2012 Please help us Free Bassel open source developer and CC volunteer Mitchell Baker Retrieved 3 April 2015 York Jillian 30 June 2012 Free Bassel Retrieved 3 April 2015 Contributor Imprisoned in Syria lizardwrangler com Nanabhay Mohamed 1 July 2012 Bassel Safadi at the CC Arab World workshop in Jillian York Retrieved 13 August 2020 Threw Barry 29 June 2012 Please Help Free Bassel Khartabil FREEBASSEL Barry Threw Archived from the original on 26 November 2015 Retrieved 3 April 2015 Activists launch FREEBASSEL campaign to bring about release of Syrian web entrepreneur well known in technology communities Al Jazeera 4 July 2012 Retrieved 3 April 2015 FREEBASSEL Lettre de soutien au syrien Bassel Khartabil Letter of support for Syrian Bassel Khartabil Framablog in French 3 July 2012 Retrieved 13 August 2020 Wijers Bjorn 3 July 2012 Opensource contributor Bassel Khartabil detained in Syria Needs help YCombinator Hackernews Retrieved 3 April 2015 Call for the Release of Bassel Khartabil Creative Commons 29 October 2012 Retrieved 3 April 2015 Doctorow Cory 31 October 2012 Free open source programmer and Creative Commons activist Bassel Khartabil faces torture in notorious Syrian prison Boing Boing Retrieved 3 April 2015 Amnesty Taiwan Syria Urgent Action FREE BASSEL Insomnia Blog 23 October 2012 Retrieved 3 April 2015 AMNESTY TAIWAN SYRIA URGENT ACTION FREEBASSEL Letter freebassel org 27 March 2015 Archived from the original on 2 April 2015 Retrieved 27 March 2015 AMNESTY TAIWAN SYRIA URGENT ACTION FREEBASSEL freebassel org 19 October 2012 Archived from the original on 26 June 2015 Retrieved 27 March 2015 Top 100 Global Thinkers Foreign Policy 26 November 2012 Retrieved 3 April 2015 Open Source Developer Bassel Khartabil Moved to Syrian Military Prison Electronic Frontier Foundation 12 December 2012 Retrieved 3 April 2015 Randaree Bilal 20 December 2012 Concerns over fate of Syrian prisoner Electronic Frontier Foundation Retrieved 3 April 2015 Al Hussaini Amira 17 December 2012 FastforBassel Campaign Launched for Syrian Netizen Facing Military Trial Global Voices Retrieved 3 April 2015 Izi Touria 25 March 2013 Fears that Syria may execute jailed software activist The Toronto Star Retrieved 3 April 2015 The FreeBasselDay Event freebassel org 18 March 2013 Archived from the original on 26 November 2015 Retrieved 15 March 2014 Campaign Launched to Bring Home Loved and Celebrated Internet Volunteer Detained in Syria FreeBassel org Archived from the original on 17 February 2014 Retrieved 15 March 2014 Free Bassel Free Culture The Huffington Post 15 March 2013 Retrieved 18 March 2013 FreeBassel One Year Later Syrian Netizen Remains in Prison Global Voices Online 15 March 2013 Retrieved 18 March 2013 Family of Syria Internet guru appeals for EU help The EU Observer 15 March 2013 Retrieved 18 March 2013 freebassel Syrischer Netzaktivist sitzt seit einem Jahr im Gefangnis Syrian internet activist has been in prison for a year in German Netzpolitik 15 March 2013 Retrieved 18 March 2013 Seit einem Jahr in Hafts In Custody for a Year in German Taz 15 March 2013 Retrieved 18 March 2013 Birthday wishes for Bassel Khartabil Index on Censorship 23 May 2013 Retrieved 24 May 2013 Today is Bassel s second birthday in prison Index on Censorship 22 May 2013 Retrieved 24 May 2013 Harmon Elliot 22 May 2013 Bassel Khartabil s Second Birthday in Prison Creative Commons Retrieved 24 May 2013 MoPad freebassel Archived from the original on 13 March 2014 Retrieved 24 May 2013 Phillips Jon FREEBASSEL SUNLIGHT Celebrate Bassel s Birthday Fabricatorz Archived from the original on 5 January 2016 Retrieved 24 May 2013 Bassel Khartabil s Second Birthday in Prison Creative Commons 22 May 2013 Retrieved 3 April 2015 Harmon Elliot 21 March 2013 Imprisoned internet pioneer Bassel Khartabil wins Index on Censorship Digital Freedom Award Creative Commons Retrieved 11 May 2015 The imprisonment of Bassel Safadi Khartabil freebassel org 12 December 2013 Archived from the original on 4 March 2016 Retrieved 27 March 2015 Weidenbaum Marc 23 January 2014 Disquiet Junto Project 0108 Free Bassel Create a soundscape for the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra Disquiet Junto Retrieved 3 April 2015 In Syria a detained Internet activist remains in limbo CNET 11 March 2014 Retrieved 9 April 2014 MacKinnon Rebecca 1 September 2014 Joining Zone Nine World Policy Journal Archived from the original on 6 February 2018 Retrieved 3 April 2015 Glaser April 3 October 2014 A Wikipedia Edit a thon for the Zone 9 Bloggers A Great Way to Raise Awareness EFF Retrieved 3 April 2015 Break the Silence Campaign Global Voices Online 10 December 2014 Retrieved 27 March 2015 Romper el silencio Campana por activistas de derechos humanos encarcelados Breaking the Silence Campaign for Jailed Human Rights Activists in Spanish Global Voices Online 10 December 2014 Retrieved 27 March 2015 On Human Rights Day We Remember Jailed Human Rights Defenders Electronic Frontier Foundation 10 December 2014 Retrieved 27 March 2015 Wikipedia Edit a thon FreeBassel Day 2015 EFF Retrieved 15 March 2015 FreeBassel Day 2015 Wikipedia Edit a thon at EFF Creative Commons 5 March 2015 Retrieved 15 March 2015 This is not a protest Edit for FreeBassel Creative Commons 11 March 2015 Retrieved 15 March 2015 Meetup San Francisco FREEBASSEL DAY 2015 Announcement Freebassel 15 March 2015 Archived from the original on 4 March 2016 Retrieved 27 March 2015 Bassel Safadi Khartabil 29 September 2014 a b Danny O Brien 24 September 2015 Taken Offline Years in Prison for a Love of Technology Offline Imprisoned Bloggers and Technologists Electronic Frontier Foundation Retrieved 15 December 2023 FREEBASSEL5DAYS 5 PUBLIC ACTS PLEDGE ASKED FOR 15 MARCH 2017 2017 Archived from the original on 14 October 2017 Retrieved 17 March 2017 11 dead in rebel shelling on Damascus activists The Daily Star 12 September 2015 Archived from the original on 15 April 2019 Retrieved 12 September 2015 Rebels storm Syria s largest prison near Damascus monitor 11 September 2015 Archived from the original on 5 October 2015 Artists and Writers Celebrate the Work of Missing Syrian Developer Bassel Safadi Global Voices 5 June 2017 WE NEED EVERYBODY S HELP TO FREEBASSEL 3 October 2015 Archived from the original on 3 October 2015 Amira Al Hussaini 3 October 2015 Fears for Imprisoned Syrian Blogger Bassel Khartabil Transferred to an Unknown Location Global Voices SYRIA FURTHER INFORMATION ACTIVIST MOVED FROM PRISON RISKS TORTURE BASSEL KHARTABIL Amnesty International 6 October 2015 Creative Commons Board of Directors approves resolution calling for Bassel Khartabil release Creative Commons 17 October 2015 A Jailed Activist s 3 D Models Could Save Syria s History From ISIS WIRED 21 October 2015 Retrieved 21 October 2015 New Palmyra newpalmyra org Retrieved 21 October 2015 MIT Media Lab offers research position to Bassel Khartabil MIT News 22 October 2015 Retrieved 22 October 2015 MIT Media Lab reaches out to jailed Syrian activist with research position in Center for Civic Media Joi Ito s Web joi ito com Retrieved 22 October 2015 Ruehling Barbara Cost of Freedom Book to be released BookSprints net Archived from the original on 8 December 2015 Retrieved 10 November 2015 Cost of Freedom A Collective Inquiry PDF and EPUB downloads CostofFreedom cc 9 November 2015 Retrieved 10 November 2015 IGF 2015 Flyer on Bassel Khartabil Electronic Frontier Foundation eff org 12 November 2015 Retrieved 15 November 2015 FreeBassel Death Sentence Rumored for Syrian Web Developer Global Voices 13 November 2015 Retrieved 15 November 2015 Horrific Reports that Bassel Khartabil Has Been Executed in Syria Jimmy Wales Foundation 1 August 2017 Archived from the original on 2 August 2017 Retrieved 1 August 2017 Bassel Khartabil In Memoriam Electronic Frontier Foundation 11 August 2017 Retrieved 3 August 2017 Wikimedia Foundation mourns the loss of Bassel Khartabil Syrian Wikimedian and global open culture advocate Wikimedia Foundation 3 August 2017 Retrieved 3 August 2017 Hamadeh Talal 1 August 2017 Global Voices Honors the Life of Open Web Activist Bassel Khartabil Executed by the Syrian Regime Global Voices Global Voices Retrieved 6 August 2017 Announcing the Bassel Khartabil Memorial Fund Creative Commons 3 August 2017 Retrieved 3 August 2017 Honoring Our Friend Bassel Announcing the Bassel Khartabil Free Culture Fellowship The Mozilla Blog 11 August 2017 Retrieved 11 August 2017 Bassel Khartabil Fellowship Awarded to Dr Tarek Loubani and Glia to Combat COVID 19 2 April 2020 Archived from the original on 24 December 2022 The first Bassel Khartabil Fellowship Awarded to Majd Al shihabi 15 April 2018 Archived from the original on 24 December 2022 meinsyrianjail meinsyrianjail Retrieved 5 August 2017 External links editBassel Khartabil at Wikipedia s sister projects nbsp Media from Commons nbsp News from Wikinews nbsp Quotations from Wikiquote nbsp Data from Wikidata FREEBASSEL Interview with Bassel about the role of Creative Commons in the Arab world in Arabic Podcast Interview with Bassel and Jon Phillips on hackerspaces and making culture in the Arab world Archived 5 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine 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