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Speakers

Marina Nemat

Iranian author imprisoned for criticizing the Iranian regime at the age of 16

Effy Nguyen

Son of Nguyen Trung Ton, detained Vietnamese human rights defender and pastor

Ketty Nivyabandi

Poet and exiled Burundian democracy activist, led a movement of women-only protests

Emmanuel Ogebe

Human rights defender for Nigerian Christians under attack by Boko Haram

Rosa Orozco

Mother of student protester murdered by the Venezuelan National Guard

Yeon-Mi Park

North Korean defector, she witnessed first-hand the regime’s atrocities against its own people

Pete Pattisson

Award-winning investigative journalist on labor exploitation in Qatar

Dechen Pemba

Tibetan dissident and founder of website ‘High Peaks Pure Earth’

Taghi Rahmani

Journalist, former Iranian political prisoner, and husband of jailed human rights activist Narges Mohammadi

Richard Ratcliffe

Husband of arbitrarily detained British-Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, leads #FreeNazanin campaign

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