The Bassel Khartabil Free Culture Fellowship was announced in Khartabil's memory
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Bassel Khartabil
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. Human rights organizations say that he was detained for his activities in support of freedom of expression, and the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention considered his detention to ha…
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Born 22 May 1981 · Died 2015 · Q982696
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2017· 5 entries
Index on Censorship: Bassel Khartabil: “I urge you to support nonviolent activism”
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Middle East Eye: Syrian internet freedom activist Bassel Khartabil was 'secretly executed'
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Index on Censorship: Honouring Bassel Khartabil, Syrian digital activist
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Published “Accurately extracting the signature of intermolecular interactions present in the NCI plot of the reduced density gradient versus electron density” in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics — cited 1,779 times.
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The #FREEBASSEL campaign asked supporters to do five public acts in honor of Khartabil, to be posted on social media
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2015· 3 entries
Died 2015.
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His friends and colleagues launched the New Palmyra Project to bring that dream to life
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“Words are difficult to come by,”
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2014· 1 entry
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
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2013· 1 entry
Awarded Index Award (2013).
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2012· 1 entry
Career landmark: arrest.
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2005· 1 entry
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
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1981· 1 entry
Born 1981-05-22.
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