Tweet Jan 31, 2012, 6:34AM at Twitter.com, cited in: Bassel Khartabil, Champion of open internet detained in Syria at indexoncensorship.org, 2013
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The people who are in real danger never leave their countries. They are in danger for a reason and for that they don’t leave.
— Bassel Khartabil
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The people who are in real danger never leave their countries. They are in danger for a reason and for that they don’t leave." in the context of "Tweet Jan 31, 2012, 6:34AM at Twitter.com, cited in: Bassel Khartabil, Champion of open internet detained in Syria at indexoncensorship.org, 2013" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
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About Bassel Khartabil
Bassel Khartabil (Arabic: باسل خرطبيل; May 22, 1981 – October 3, 2015) was a Palestinian Syrian open-source software developer. He was detained without trial by the Syrian government in 2012 and was secretly executed in 2015. Human rights organizations claim that he was detained for his activities in support of freedom of expression, and the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention considered his detention to have been arbitrary.
About Bassel Khartabil
Bassel Khartabil (Arabic: باسل خرطبيل; May 22, 1981 – October 3, 2015) was a Palestinian Syrian open-source software developer. He was detained without trial by the Syrian government in 2012 and was secretly executed in 2015. Human rights organizations claim that he was detained for his activities in support of freedom of expression, and the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention considered his detention to have been arbitrary.
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