Speakers
Venezuela

Leopoldo López

Venezuelan dissident, former political prisoner, co-founder of the World Liberty Congress
Russia

Yulia Navalnaya

Chair of the Human Rights Foundation and the Anti-Corruption Foundation, founded by her late husband, Alexei Navalny
Hong Kong

Chloe Cheung

Hong Kong pro-democracy activist with a HK$1 million bounty on her head
Russia

Marina Ovsyannikova

Journalist who famously interrupted live Russian TV news broadcast with a sign protesting Putin’s war on Ukraine
Syria

Aram Aqil

Kurdish minority rights activist, former ISIS hostage
Sudan

Mutasim Ali

Sudanese human rights advocate, legal counsel at the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights
China

Grace Jin Drexel

Daughter of Ezra Jin Mingri, a prominent Chinese pastor detained by the CCP
Afghanistan

Marzieh Hamidi

Afghan-Iranian taekwondo champion and advocate for women’s rights in Afghanistan
Zimbabwe

Blessed Mhlanga

Zimbabwean journalist held in pre-trial detention for 73 days
Vietnam

Huệ Như

Vietnamese pro-democracy and anti-corruption advocate, former political prisoner
Venezuela

Pedro Urruchurtu Noselli

Venezuelan opposition campaign advisor held hostage for over 400 days inside the Argentine embassy in Caracas
Sudan

Niemat Ahmadi

Sudanese women’s rights defender and survivor of the Darfur Genocide

Iran

Maryam Diyor

Mother of Abolfazl Amir-Ataei who was murdered at the age of 16 by the Islamic regime while participating in the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom protests
Afghanistan

Massouda Jalal

Former Afghan Minister of Women’s Affairs and the first woman to run for President of Afghanistan
Afghanistan

Husna Jalal

Exiled Afghan women’s rights activist and the daughter of Massouda Jalal
Russia

Garry Kasparov

Human rights activist, promoter of democracy, and former World Chess Champion
Hong Kong

Sebastien Lai

Democracy activist and son of imprisoned pro-democracy media entrepreneur Jimmy Lai
Uyghur persecution

Rahima Mahmut

Uyghur human rights activist, translator, and singer
Iran

Mahan Mehrabi

Sister of Iranian political prisoners Mahmoud and Maryam Mehrabi
Tibet

Namkyi

Exiled Tibetan activist and former political prisoner
Vietnam

Van Trang Nguyen

Vietnamese democracy activist and victim of transnational repression

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