Published : 15-08-2017
The family of the Palestinian engineer and cyber activist Bassel Khartabil AlSafadi urged, in a statement emailed to AGPS, the Syrian government to hand over their relative’s body so as to bid him last farewell and bury him at the soonest time possible.
AlSafadi’s family expressed gratitude to all those who rallied round them, voicing hope that solidarity campaigns would live up to Bassel’s peaceful approach.
The family expressed its solidarity with thousands of detainees in Syrian lock-ups and their families.
AlSafadi’s family called for cancelling exceptional field military courts and death penalties and opting for fair trials in line with the Syrian and international laws.
Responding to news, several states and human rights institutions, including the US, condemned, in the strongest terms, the extrajudicial execution of the human rights activist Khartabil in detention in Syrian government jails, where he had been locked up for three years.
Human rights institutions also expressed their outrage over the repeated acts of brutality, including torture, and extra-judicial executions, conducted by the Syrian regime.
The Syrian government executed the Palestinian web developer and cyber activist Bassel Khartabil AlSafadi in 2015, his family said.
The execution of Bassel Khartabil was carried out days after he was moved to the Adra prison on October 3, 2015.
Bassel was kidnapped by the Syrian intelligence forces on March 15, 2012 and detained for eight months before he was transferred to the Adra prison in Damascus in December 2012. Basel had been subjected to harsh torture in the Adra lock-up.
The computer engineer is credited with vastly extending online access and knowledge and was a regular contributor to Wikipedia, Mozilla Firefox, and Open Clip Art, among other international encyclopedias, web browsers, and corporations.
The family of the Palestinian engineer and cyber activist Bassel Khartabil AlSafadi urged, in a statement emailed to AGPS, the Syrian government to hand over their relative’s body so as to bid him last farewell and bury him at the soonest time possible.
AlSafadi’s family expressed gratitude to all those who rallied round them, voicing hope that solidarity campaigns would live up to Bassel’s peaceful approach.
The family expressed its solidarity with thousands of detainees in Syrian lock-ups and their families.
AlSafadi’s family called for cancelling exceptional field military courts and death penalties and opting for fair trials in line with the Syrian and international laws.
Responding to news, several states and human rights institutions, including the US, condemned, in the strongest terms, the extrajudicial execution of the human rights activist Khartabil in detention in Syrian government jails, where he had been locked up for three years.
Human rights institutions also expressed their outrage over the repeated acts of brutality, including torture, and extra-judicial executions, conducted by the Syrian regime.
The Syrian government executed the Palestinian web developer and cyber activist Bassel Khartabil AlSafadi in 2015, his family said.
The execution of Bassel Khartabil was carried out days after he was moved to the Adra prison on October 3, 2015.
Bassel was kidnapped by the Syrian intelligence forces on March 15, 2012 and detained for eight months before he was transferred to the Adra prison in Damascus in December 2012. Basel had been subjected to harsh torture in the Adra lock-up.
The computer engineer is credited with vastly extending online access and knowledge and was a regular contributor to Wikipedia, Mozilla Firefox, and Open Clip Art, among other international encyclopedias, web browsers, and corporations.
