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
Khartabil in June 2010
17 June 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."
10 July 2015, Damascus Central Jail. "From time to time I resurrect old black and white dreams from my childhood memories."
15 June 2015, Damascus Central Jail. "What is this dream I see every night? A web? Black lines? A tunnel? Or some memories from my childhood?"
Ba'athist Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, was the Syrian state between 1963 and 2024 under the one-party rule of the Syrian regional branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party. From 1970 un
Bassel Khartabil
…باسل خرطبيل Khartabil in June 2010 Born 22 May 1981 Damascus, Syria Died 3 October 2015 (aged 34) Adra Prison, Syria Cause of death Executed by the Syrian Arab Republic Occupation Software engineer Known for Aiki Framework, Openclipart, Mozilla, Creative Commons Spouse Noura Ghazi (m. 2013) Awards Index on Censorship…
Neo-Ba'athist military officers celebrating the downfall of the Second Syrian Republic after seizing power from its last democratically elected president Nazim al-Qudsi in 1963.
Amin al-Hafiz (left), an important political figure and president of Syria in 1963–66, carried out socialist reforms and reoriented the country towards the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc.
General Salah Jadid, a key figure in planning the 1966 coup. Though holding no formal position, he stayed in the shadows and was Syria’s de facto leader until 1970.
Hafez al-Assad, president of Syria from 1971 until his death in 2000, built a strong military dictatorship.