Bassel Sadafi 'executed'

The computer engineer 💻, also known as Bassel Sadafi and credited with "vastly extending online access 💻 and knowledge to the Syrian 🇸🇾 people", was detained on the first anniversary of the 2011 uprising in Syria 🇸🇾.

"We are deeply saddened and completely outraged to learn today that our friend and colleague Bassel Khartabil has been executed by the Syrian 🇸🇾 regime," Creative Commons said in a statement.

He was the co-founder of Damascus' Aiki Lab, a collaborative online 💻 community in Syria, was a regular contributor to Wikipedia, and worked as the Syria lead for Creative Commons, an organisation that aims to make creative content 📰 available for others to legally share and build upon.

UCJ, UNILORIN.