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Bassel Khartabil is a former Creative Commons ambassador in Syria and a Mozilla contributor. He contributed to a lot of open source projects worldwide which includes Firefox, Wikipedia, Openclipart, Font Library, Fabricatorz and a lot more. After the start of the Syrian Revolution back in 2011, he was arrested by the Syrian regime for “publishing [...]