program

Speakers

Ko Bo Kyi

Burmese activist and former political prisoner, founder of the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners

Nathan Law

Hong Kong student leader of the Umbrella Movement, former Member of Hong Kong Legislative Council who fled arrest

Antonio Ledezma

Venezuelan opposition leader, political prisoner who escaped in November 2017

Michael Levitt

Canadian MP, Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Former Chair of the Human Rights Subcommittee

Nyima Lhamo

Tibetan activist and niece of religious leader Tenzin Delek Rinpoche

Il Lim

North Korean defector and former slave laborer

Julienne Lusenge

Leading women’s rights champion fighting rape as a weapon of war in eastern Congo, president of Female Solidarity for Integrated Peace and Development

Mukhtar Mai

Pakistani rape victim, author and human rights activist

Maryam Malekpour

Sister of Saeed Malekpour, Iranian developer serving a life sentence in Evin prison on spurious charges.

Elham Manea

Professor of Middle East affairs and family spokesperson for Raif Badawi

Ashiq Masih

Husband of Asia Bibi, first Pakistani woman sentenced to death for blasphemy

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