Dear all. Sad and terrible news for the movement.
Just want to be sure about if Wikimedia Foundation and/or Jimmy Wales Foundation have proofs of Bassel's death. Some international conventions about forced disappearance have protocols to talk in public and confirm this terrible cases. One of that protocols is talk about "forced disappeared" victims until families have a scientific confirmation from an official source. In many cases around the world governments or other persons use rumors to undermine morale of the families of the victims and organizations around them or force to the victim to be abandoned.
While we don't have that kind of confirmation for respect we must insist to refer our colleague as "dissapeared".
Best,
2017-08-02 12:02 GMT-05:00 Marti Johnson mjohnson@wikimedia.org:
Such heartbreaking news. Thank you for sharing it, Katherine.
It's supportive to know he will be remembered and celebrated at Wikimania. I'm grateful that's happening. ᐧ
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On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 9:49 AM, Ravishankar Ayyakkannu < rayyakkannu@wikimedia.org> wrote:
I am crying :(
On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 10:04 PM, Shlomi Fish shlomif@shlomifish.org wrote:
On Tue, 1 Aug 2017 19:00:19 -0400 Katherine Maher kmaher@wikimedia.org wrote:
Dear all,
I am very deeply saddened to share the news of the passing of our
fellow
community member Bassel Khartabil, also known to some as Bassel
Safadi.
Bassel was detained on March 15, 2012 amid arrests on the one-year anniversary of the Syrian uprising. He had been missing since October
2015,
when he was removed from the Syrian prison where he was being held.
His
wife, Noura, confirmed earlier today in a statement on Facebook that
he
was
executed by the Syrian government shortly after his disappearance.
Sorry to hear that.
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