Ola Bini

Ola Bini
Bini in 2014
Born1982
Occupations
  • programmer
  • author
  • activist
Websitehttps://olabini.se/

Ola Bini, (born Ola Martin Gustafsson in 1982[1]) is a Swedish programmer and Internet activist, working for the Digital Autonomy Center[2] in Ecuador on issues of privacy, security and cryptography. He has been in Ecuador since 2013.

In April 2019, Bini was arrested in Ecuador, apparently due to his association with Julian Assange and WikiLeaks.[3] In January 2023, Bini was acquitted of all charges.[4]

  1. ^ Swedish census 1990, CDROM, riksarkivet.se, ISBN 978-91-88366-90-0
  2. ^ "Team", autonomia.digital, retrieved 23 April 2019
  3. ^ León Cabrera, José María (21 April 2019). "Ecuador detains a friend of Assange. Critics say it's guilt by association". The New York Times. Retrieved 23 April 2019. This article cites Twitter postings by Article 19 and Amnesty International; the former links to Article 19's April 15 statement.
  4. ^ "Digital rights activist Ola Bini declared innocent by Ecuadorian court". Peoples Dispatch. 1 February 2023. Retrieved 1 February 2023.