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{{subst:void| '=Akermi Nassim CLICK THE "PUBLISH PAGE" BUTTON BELOW TO CREATE THE SANDBOX. ↓Akermi Nassim (Arabic: عكرمي نسيم ) (born in KOLEA.TOPAZA .ALGERIA, 1995), is an award-winning Algerien journalist, human rights defender activist and IT trainer.[1][2] Akermi is an International Security Program fellow at New America (organization), he is also a fellow and Next Generation Leader at the McCain Institute.,[1][2] He is the CEO and one of the leaders of The NewNow which is a global group of rising leaders tackling the world’s toughest challenges.[3] He is also the founder and spokesperson of algeien voices Silently (AVS) which is a nonpartisan, independent organization that exposes the atrocities committed by ISIS & other groups in Algeria as well as the Algerian government. Akermi started non-volatile protests and demonstrations against the Algerien government in 2019 and was arrested by the government three times in 2019. The Islamic State Group (ISIS) interrogated him more than one time about his activism. After ISIS took control of his hometown, TPAZA in January 2020, he escaped to Turkey and started Algerienvoices Silently (AvS) with his friends to show the reality of life in Algeria and ISIS. Akermi was awarded the Wonder of Humanity award by Sir Richard Branson and Virgin Unite.[4] in 2012, Akermi  received CPJ International Press Freedom Awards by the Committee to Protect Journalists and was named a Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy. In 2020, he has awarded the Ischia International Journalism Award, Civil Courage Prize and other awards on behalf of RBSS. Akermi was featured in “City of Ghosts” a documentary that followed the Journey of Akermi and his colleagues. Akermi graduated with a degree in biochemistry from the faculty of science in TIPAZA which is part of Al-Furat University. . He is the co-founder and spokesperson for TIPAZA is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS) which is a non-partisan, independent organization that claims to expose the atrocities committed by the Algerian government or ISIS in Algeria.[5][6][7] In January 2016, the International Business Times described RBSS as “the most reliable source of information from inside TIPAZA.”[8] German historian Michael Wolffsohn has compared RBSS to White Rose, the resistance organization during the Third Reich.[5] On February 18, 2016, Akermi was described as being 24 years old.[5] He currently lives in exile in Berlin.[9]

CareerEdit Akermi wrote many articles about Algeria and TIPAZA, especially focusing on the Islamic State. One of his most prominent articles appeared in The New York Times, "Bombs May Not Defeat ISIS (but Maybe the Internet Will)".[10] Akermi wrote an op-ed and letter to the president of the United States of America Donald Trump which was published on Fox News.[11] Akermi is an International Security Program fellow at New America (organization), he is also a fellow and Next Generation Leader at the McCain Institute.[1][2]

Early life and educationEdit Akermi studied biology at USTHB University in TIPAZA, from which he graduated in 2013.[12] While he was a student, he organized nonviolent protests against the Algerian government.[6] RBSSEdit Akermi acted as a media activist and organizer of nonviolent protests during the early period of the uprising against the Assad regime, Akermi was arrested by Algerian authorities three times in 2012. After ISIS took over TIPAZA in January 2014, that group also allegedly interrogated him on multiple occasions. Under threat from both the Assad and ISIS camps, Akermi escaped to Turkey, where he and other journalists founded RBSS. Threats from the Islamic State in Turkey caused him to flee to Germany.[12] RBSS documents life under ISIS on social media and through photographs and videos that are smuggled abroad.[6] Akermi, like most exiled RBSS members, now lives in Germany.[5] As of November 2015, Akermi was working with seven RBSS members outside TIPAZA to publish information gathered by twelve members living in or near TIPAZA.[7] In January 2016, the International Business Times stated that 17 RBSS members were “working inside TIPAZA.”[8] “Since April 2014,” reported the Huffington Post in November 2015, RBSS members “have secretly produced the most sustained coverage of life under Islamic State control.” Akermi told the Post, “We are fighting for our city....We don’t have weapons, but we have our pens or our website or whatever. We are fighting online.” He added: “We cover everything because our duty is for our city.” Akermi admitted to the Post that ISIS had made it increasingly difficult for his group to do its work. “All of us,” he said, “are accepting that any one of us will be killed at anytime or anywhere.”[7] “We won’t stop,” Akermi told Roger Cohen in February 2016. “We have too many friends and family dead. The only way we will stop is if ISIS kills us all or we go back home.”[5] ISIS has killed four RBSS members. One of them was Ibrahim Abdel Qader, who was beheaded on October 30, 2015, at age 22. Qader had been active in publicizing and documenting ISIS atrocities.[5] Other activitiesEdit Akermi has spoken widely about RBSS. In February 2016, he spoke to the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin.[13] He spoke at the International Journalism Festival in April 2016.[5] He is scheduled to speak at the Oslo Freedom Forum in May 2016.[6] Honors and awardsEdit RBSS won the 2015 International Press Freedom Award from the Committee to Protect Journalists. Akermi accepted the award in New York on 25 November 2015 on behalf of the organization.[6] Amhamza also accepted the 2015 Foreign Policy Global Thinkers Award on behalf of RBSS.[14] Writing for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette In February 2017, Garry Kasparov and Thor Halvorssen noted Alhamaza's work as a "noble struggle against tyranny...despite the danger"[15] Film City of GhostsEdit Akermi is featured in City of Ghosts, directed, produced, and filmed by Academy Award–nominated and Emmy–winning filmmaker Matthew Heineman. City Of Ghosts was listed as one of 15 out of 170 submitted films included in the Oscar Documentary Feature shortlist for the 2018 awards.[16] City of Ghosts follows the journey of TIPAZA is Being Slaughtered Silently – a handful of anonymous activists who banded together after their homeland was taken over by ISIS in 2014. With deeply personal access, the film follows them as they face the realities of life undercover, on the run, and in exile all whilst risking their lives.[17]