Statement on the death of CC friend and colleague Bassel Khartabil

MichaelBurge · on Aug 2, 2017

What is the source of the information that he was executed?

lifthrasiir · on Aug 2, 2017

> However, today, his wife Noura, confirmed that he was executed in the Adra prison in Damascus back in October 2015 by the Syrian regime [...]

Source: https://fosspost.org/news/bassel-khartabil-oss-contributor-c...

Rjevski · on Aug 2, 2017

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MrGilbert · on Aug 2, 2017

He's a victim of a stupid and hateful regime.

dang · on Aug 2, 2017

Religious flamewar is not allowed on HN. We ban accounts that do this, so please do not do it here.

wavefunction · on Aug 2, 2017

He was executed by the government of Syria.

I am downvoting you for being a fool.

dang · on Aug 3, 2017

This is a bannable offense on HN, regardless of how bad the comment you're replying to was.

I'm glad to see you're not doing this often, but we did have to warn you about incivility in the past, so would you please just edit such bits out of your comments here?