Campaign increases for project leader for open-source Web-based content management system, who was detained in March in Damascus
BANGALORE - Mozilla Foundation and other activist groups such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation have called for the release of Bassel Khartabil (pictured), an open-source developer who was detained on March 15 in the Mazzeh district of Damascus in a wave of arrests.
A campaign #FREEBASSEL has been launched online to bring home the Internet volunteer who is the project leader for open-source web software called Aiki Framework, a Web-based content management system.
Khartabil, a 31-year-old Palestinian-Syrian, is well known in online technical communities as a dedicated volunteer for Internet projects like the Creative Commons, Mozilla Firefox, and Wikipedia, according to the campaign which is asking sympathizers to sign an online letter for his release. He is also known as Bassel Safadi.
Khartabil has been unjustly detained for nearly four months without trial or any legal charges being brought against him, it said on its website. "We, the signees of the #FREEBASSEL campaign, demand immediate information regarding his detention, health, and psychological state," it added. The campaign also urged the Syrian government "to release the community member, husband-to-be, son to a mother and father, and celebrated International software engineer."
BANGALORE - Mozilla Foundation and other activist groups such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation have called for the release of Bassel Khartabil (pictured), an open-source developer who was detained on March 15 in the Mazzeh district of Damascus in a wave of arrests.
A campaign #FREEBASSEL has been launched online to bring home the Internet volunteer who is the project leader for open-source web software called Aiki Framework, a Web-based content management system.
Khartabil, a 31-year-old Palestinian-Syrian, is well known in online technical communities as a dedicated volunteer for Internet projects like the Creative Commons, Mozilla Firefox, and Wikipedia, according to the campaign which is asking sympathizers to sign an online letter for his release. He is also known as Bassel Safadi.
Khartabil has been unjustly detained for nearly four months without trial or any legal charges being brought against him, it said on its website. "We, the signees of the #FREEBASSEL campaign, demand immediate information regarding his detention, health, and psychological state," it added. The campaign also urged the Syrian government "to release the community member, husband-to-be, son to a mother and father, and celebrated International software engineer."
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