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'm not sure why you would particularly want to smuggle mercury on anyway. I don't see why it'd do much.
gollark: I doubt it's particularly secret if random TSA people know about it, but enjoy.
gollark: Stuff like the proof of Fermat's last theorem required connecting together a bunch of disconnected-looking areas of maths in very clever ways. There's more to that than just "practice", by most definitions of practice.
gollark: If you want to solve "the most difficult solvable equation in the world" you're probably going to have to come up with a lot of new techniques.
gollark: Practising stuff will make you better at what you're already able to do mostly.

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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