I hope I'm wrong, but with a country like Syria, I can't help wondering if raising the guy's profile might actually put him more at risk.
Mozilla Foundation and EFF join hunt for Syrian open source developer
The open source community and human rights organizations have joined forces to find a software developer who has been missing for months following the recent civil unrest in Syria. Bassel Khartabil, a 31-year-old computer engineer, was the project leader of Aiki Framework, an open source tool for building web applications. He …
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Monday 9th July 2012 07:08 GMT FrankAlphaXII
I hate to say it
But knowing Syria under the Assads, he's probably dead.
Syria's secret police are trained by the Iranians and the Pakistanis. People die in custody or get disappeared all the time.
If he was arrested by the normal police, he stands a chance of being alive but lost in their system, which is very reminiscent of Iraq's system immediately following the Invasion in 2003. Our forces had the damnest time trying to locate people, mainly Kurdish Peshmerga militiamen and Shiites caught providing intelligence to foreign powers or the UN but not executed. We knew they were alive but scattered across the country.
If you want to make some noise, email Al-Jazeera. They're the only news outlet that matters globally which is likely to care.