Program

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

09:00   Opening

Dr. Yang Jianli, Former political prisoner, President of Initiatives for China

09:30   Session I:  The Struggle for Reform

Chair: TBC
 

BURMA: IS WHAT YOU SEE, WHAT YOU GET?

Zoya Phan,Exiled dissident, author of “Little Daughter”
 

VIETNAM: THE FORGOTTEN FIGHT FOR FREEDOM

Michel Tran Duc, Human rights activist


THE ZIMBABWE PEACE PROJECT

Jestina Mukoko, Dissident, 2010 International Woman of Courage

 

11:00   Session II:  Defying Totalitarian Regimes

Chair: Guy Mettan, President, Suisse Press Club and Geneva MP


FROM THE DEMOCRACY WALL TO TIANANMEN SQUARE

Ren Wanding, Father of the Chinese human rights movement, former prisoner


NORTH KOREA: NEW RULER, SAME REPRESSION?

Joo-il Kim, North Korean defector


WHY CUBA JAILED, TORTURED AND EXILED ME

Nestor Rodriguez Lobaina, President of the Movement of Young Cubans
 

12:30   Networking Lunch
 

14:00   Session III:  Blasphemy Laws & Honour Killings

Chair: Philippe Robinet, Director, Editions Kero


HOW THE UN CAN SAVE ASIA BIBI FROM EXECUTION

Anne-Isabelle Tollet, reporter, author of “Blasphème”

 

THE DISHONOUR OF HONOUR KILLINGS

Jacqueline Thibault, President Fondation Surgir
Pakistani couple, Survivors of attempted honour killings

15:30   Session IV:   Beyond the Arab Spring

Chair: TBC
 

JUST RELEASED FROM EGYPTIAN PRISON

Maikel Nabil, Hero of Tahrir Square, jailed for “insulting the Egyptian army”
 

IRAN: JAILED, TORTURED & ABUSED BY THE REGIME

Ebrahim Mehtari, Iranian democracy activist and political prisoner
 

MASSACRE IN SYRIA: VICTIM TESTIMONY

Hadeel Kouki, 20-year-old Syrian activist, brutally tortured in prison


17:30   Conclusion

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