Published : 13-07-2018
French company Rainbox announced the release of DUIK 16, dubbed "Bassel" in honor of Palestinian militant activist Bassel Khartabil Safadi. As part of the move, DUIK added more standard animation tools and workflows to be used in commercial animation applications.
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 extrajudicial execution of Khartabil sparked furor on social media networks, with thousands of bloggers, activists, and social media users expressing their deepest sadness for his death and sympathy with his wife and family.
The advocate for freedom of speech, information and access to the internet was mourned by rights activists both inside Syria and internationally after news of his death broke.
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.
Before the civil war erupted, Safadi worked tirelessly to open up Syria - where censorship is rife - to internet access, bringing together engineers and democracy campaigners through his Aiki Lab project, and working on open software projects with Wikipedia and Creative Commons.
After the revolution began his work became even more important, giving demonstrators and activists the tools to communicate and broadcast news through social media.
For all of his work, he was awarded by the Foreign Policy website the 19th position on its prestigious Global Thinkers ranking of 2012, and in 2013 won the Digital Freedom Award from the Index on Censorship, an international organization that promotes and defends freedom of expression since 1972.
French company Rainbox announced the release of DUIK 16, dubbed "Bassel" in honor of Palestinian militant activist Bassel Khartabil Safadi. As part of the move, DUIK added more standard animation tools and workflows to be used in commercial animation applications.
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 extrajudicial execution of Khartabil sparked furor on social media networks, with thousands of bloggers, activists, and social media users expressing their deepest sadness for his death and sympathy with his wife and family.
The advocate for freedom of speech, information and access to the internet was mourned by rights activists both inside Syria and internationally after news of his death broke.
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.
Before the civil war erupted, Safadi worked tirelessly to open up Syria - where censorship is rife - to internet access, bringing together engineers and democracy campaigners through his Aiki Lab project, and working on open software projects with Wikipedia and Creative Commons.
After the revolution began his work became even more important, giving demonstrators and activists the tools to communicate and broadcast news through social media.
For all of his work, he was awarded by the Foreign Policy website the 19th position on its prestigious Global Thinkers ranking of 2012, and in 2013 won the Digital Freedom Award from the Index on Censorship, an international organization that promotes and defends freedom of expression since 1972.
