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Bassel Khartabil Safadi… Victim of the Military Field Court

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Bassel Khartabil Safadi

The organisations and institutions signing below are extremely saddened by the news that our friend and colleague Bassel Khartabil Safadi has been executed in the Syrian regime jails. We send our deepest condolences to his family, friends and all those who knew and loved him.
 
Bassel is a Palestinian Syrian computer engineer who worked as an an open source software programmer while using his technical expertise to reinforce freedom of expression and access to information through the internet. He also headed the Creative Commons’ Syrian project and was known as a teacher, Wikipedia contributor, and free culture advocate.
 
The news on the death of Bassel was announced by his wife, lawyer and activist Noura Ghazi Safadi on 01 August 2017; she wrote in a facebook post: “Words are difficult to come by while I am about to announce, on behalf of Bassel’s family and mine, the confirmation of the death sentence and execution of my husband Bassel Khartabil Safadi. He was executed just days after he was taken from Adra prison in October 2015. This is the end that suits a hero like him.”
 
On 15 March of 2012, Syrian regime’s intelligence arrested Bassel, where he was kept detained and isolated from the outside world for 8 months in military intelligence prison in Kafersoseh. He was later transferred to Seidnaya prison where he was subjected to three weeks of various kinds of torture by prison officials, according to what he told his family later. His family did not receive any information from the officials about his whereabouts or the reason for his arrest until 24 December 2012, when the authorities transferred him to ‘Adra Central Prison’.
 
In there, he finally gained access to see his wife and family, and the situation remained the same until October 2015, when all communications between Bassel and the outside world ceased. Different reports claimed that security forces transferred Bassel from his cell in Adra prison to an unknown location. It was reported later that the military field court had sentenced Bassel Khartabil Safadi to death.
 

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