Speaker Bios – The Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy

Floyd Abrams

Lawyer and free speech expert

Iran

Nazanin Afshin-Jam

Iranian-born Canadian human rights advocate and co-founder of Stop Child Executions

Iran

Ahmad Batebi

Iranian human rights activist and founder of Human Rights Activists in Iran

Ellen Bork

Human Rights Activist and Writer

Cuba

Jose Gabriel Ramon Castillo

Cuban dissident

Political Prisoners

Irwin Cotler

International Chair of Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, former Minister of Justice & Attorney General of Canada

Caroline Fourest

Journalist formerly with Charlie Hebdo

Libya

Ashraf El Hajouj

Victim of Libyan torture

Sudan

Gibreil Hamid

Darfur Activist

Egypt

Saad Eddin Ibrahim

Egyptian world-renowned academic and human rights activist

Burma

Ko Bo Kyi

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

Rwanda

Esther Mujawayo

Rwandan genocide survivor and activist

Venezuela

Gonzalo Himiob Santome

Venezuelan Activist

Parvez Sharma

Award-winning filmmaker and LGBT activist

Algeria

Mohamed Sifaoui

Algerian-French Journalist

Dominique Sopo

President SOS Racisme

Cuba

John Suarez

Cuban human rights activist

Maran Turner

Executive director, Freedom Now

Libya

Kristyana Valcheva

Bulgarian nurse kidnapped by the Libyan regime

Zimbabwe

Marlon Zakeyo

Zimbabwean Activist

Francois Zimeray

Former French Ambassador for Human Rights