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'''Bassel Khartabil''' (22 May 1981 – 3 October 2015; {{lang-ar|باسل خرطبيل}}), also known as '''Bassel Safadi''' ({{lang-ar|باسل صفدي}}), was a [[Palestinians|Palestinian]] [[Syrians|Syrian]] [[open-source model|open-source]] [[software developer]]. He was [[Indefinite detention|detained without trial]] by the Syrian government in 2012<ref name="alkarama-1763" /> and was [[Secret execution|secretly executed]] in 2015. Human rights organizations claim that he was detained for his activities in support of [[Human rights in Syria#Freedom of speech and the media|freedom of expression]],<ref name="hrwdisclose">{{cite web|date=7 October 2015|title=Syria: Disclose Whereabouts of Detained Freedom of Expression Advocate|url=https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/10/07/syria-disclose-whereabouts-detained-freedom-expression-advocate|publisher=Human Rights Watch}}</ref> and the [[Working Group on Arbitrary Detention|United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention]] considered his detention to have been [[Arbitrary detention|arbitrary]].<ref name="alkarama-1763" />

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<ref>{{cite web |url= https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/Aiki_lab |title=Aiki lab}}</ref> and was CTO of Al-Aous,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.al-aous.com/|title=الأوس للنشر|author=الأوس للنشر|access-date=4 July 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117003042/http://www.al-aous.com/|archive-date=17 November 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> 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,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Syria|title=Syria}}</ref> and has contributed to [[Mozilla]] [[Firefox]], [[Wikipedia]], [[Openclipart]], [[Fabricatorz]], and [[Sharism]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Threatened Voices / Bloggers / Bassel (Safadi) Khartabil|url=http://threatened.globalvoicesonline.org/blogger/bassel-safadi-khartabil}}</ref> He "is credited with opening up the Internet in Syria and vastly extending online access and knowledge to the Syrian people."<ref>{{cite news| title= Request for Written Answer on the Question of the Imprisonment of Bassel Safadi Khartabil|url=http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+WQ+E-2013-014046+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN|access-date=9 April 2014 |publisher=European Parliament |date=18 March 2014}}</ref>