Speaker Bios – The Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy

Speakers

Libya

Mohamed Al-Jahmi

Brother of Libyan dissident, Fathi Al-Jahmi

Sudan

Juan Branco

Former President of Jeune Rédpublique

Sudan

John Dau

One of the ‘Lost Boys of Sudan’ who survived years of civil war in the country

Moderator

Catherine Fiankan-Bokonga

Senior UN correspondent

Cuba

Luis Enrique Ferrer Garcia

Cuban political prisoner

China

Yang Jianli

Chinese dissident, former political prisoner, Tiananmen Square massacre survivor and President of Initiatives for China

Uganda

Jacqueline Kasha

Ugandan LGBT activist, founder and director of Freedom and Roam Uganda

Zimbabwe

Grace Kwinjeh

Zimbabwean Dissident

Tunisia

Lina Ben Mhenni

Tunisian blogger and activist

Iran

Mohammad Mostafaei

Iranian human rights lawyer who fights for women and children’s rights

Human Rights

Hillel Neuer

Executive Director, UN Watch

China

Bahtiyar Omer

Uyghur rights activist

China

Dechen Pemba

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

Venezuela

Miguel Angel Rodriguez

Venezuelan Journalist

Egypt

Mahmoud Salem

Egyptian Blogger and Activist

Sudan

Bernard Schalscha

General Secretary of Collectif Urgence Darfour

Human Rights

Ilana Soskin

Lawyer and LICRA Legal Commission President

Moderator

Charles Super

Journalist and international affairs commentator, specializing in the Middle East

Turkmenistan

Farid Tuhbatullin

Chairman of the Turkmen Initiative for Human Rights

Vietnam

Nguyen Thanh Van

Vietnamese Journalist

China

Ti-Ana Wang

Chinese dissident, whose father is imprisoned in China

North Korea

Gwang-il Yung

North Korean defector and labour camp survivor