Bassel Khartabil
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| Native name | باسل خرطبيل |
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Bassel Khartabil May 22, 1981 Damascus, Syria |
| Residence | Damascus, Syria Currently imprisoned in an unknown location |
| Nationality | Syrian |
| Occupation | Software engineer |
| Known for | Aiki Framework, Openclipart, Open Font Library, Fabricatorz, Mozilla, Creative Commons |
| Awards | Index on Censorship 2013 Digital Freedom Award |
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Bassel Khartabil (Arabic: باسل خرطبيل), also known as Bassel Safadi (Arabic: باسل صفدي), (born May 22, 1981) is a Palestinian Syrian open-source software developer. From March 15, 2012, the one-year anniversary of the Syrian uprising, he was detained by the Syrian government at Adra Prison in Damascus. As of October 3, 2015, he had been transferred to an unknown location, probably to be judged by a military court. On October 7, 2015, Human Rights Watch and 30 other human rights organizations issued a letter demanding that Khartabil's whereabouts be disclosed. On November 11, 2015, rumors surfaced that Khartabil had been secretly sentenced to death.
Khartabil was born in Damascus and raised in Syria, where he specializes in open source software development. He has been chief technology officer (CTO) and co-founder of collaborative research company Aiki Lab and was CTO of Al-Aous, 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, and has contributed to Mozilla Firefox, , Openclipart, Fabricatorz, and Sharism. He "is credited with opening up the Internet in Syria and vastly extending online access and knowledge to the Syrian people."
His most recent work includes a 3D virtual reconstruction of the ancient city of Palmyra in Syria, real time visualization, and development with Fabricatorz for the web programming framework Aiki Framework.
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