Massoud Hamid

Massoud Hamid is a Kurdish Syrian journalism student. He took photographs of a pro-Kurdish event.

Biography

Hamid received a three-year prison sentence. Hamid was held in solitary confinement in Adra Prison for one year from 2003–04 before he was allowed monthly visits, and Human Rights Watch said that interrogators reportedly tortured him and beat him with a studded whip on the bottom of his feet.[1] His room was 2 by 0.85 metres (6 ft 7 in × 2 ft 9 in), largely filled by a toilet.[2]

He received the 2005 cyberfreedom prize from Reporters Without Borders.[3]

gollark: I don't think you can blame just *one* factor like contractors for government inefficiency.
gollark: The not-sold-as-reusable ones actually can last for a while. We have loads of them around at home for shopping.
gollark: Computerized voting: because computer systems never have big security problems, and trusting elections to closed source voting machines is totally fine!
gollark: I'm not sure why the presidential candidates' age needs to be brought into this when they all seem bad in other ways anyway.
gollark: That would make sense.

References
  1. Human Rights Watch False Freedom Online Censorship in the Middle East and North Africa. Retrieved June 14, 2011.
  2. Far from justice: Syria's Supreme State Security Court. Retrieved June 14, 2011.
  3. "Massoud Hamid is awarded the 2005 cyberfreedom prize".


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