Speaker Bios – The Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy

Syria

Ibrahim Al-Idelbi

Syrian human rights activist

Iran

Masih Alinejad

Award-winning Iranian freelance journalist and creator of ‘My Stealthy Freedom’ project encouraging women to post photos without headscarves

Cuba

Juan Francisco Sigler Amaya

Cuban human rights activist

Russia

Maria Baronova

Russian Activist and Journalist

Turkey

Yavuz Baydar

Turkish journalist who won the 2014 European Press Prize for fighting censorship in Turkey

Iran

Ladan Boroumand

Research Director at Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation for Human Rights and Democracy in Iran

China

Dicki Chhoyang

Tibetan Parlamentarian from the North American diaspora

Hong Kong

Alex Chow

Former Secretary General of Hong Kong Federation of Students

Cuba

Manuel Cuesta

Cuban human rights activist

Morocco

Fouzia Elbayed

Former MP and women’s rights advocate

Subhas Gujadhur

Universal Rights Group

North Korea

Il Lim

North Korean defector and former slave laborer

Human Rights

Markus Löning

Chair of Liberal International’s Human Rights Committee

Venezuela

Maria Corina Machado

Venezuelan opposition leader

Pakistan

Ashiq Masih

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

Human Rights

Alfred Moses

Chair of UN Watch, former U.S. Ambassador to Romania, Special Presidential Envoy for the Cyprus Conflict, Special Counsel to President Jimmy Carter

Nigeria

Emmanuel Ogebe

Human rights defender for Nigerian Christians under attack by Boko Haram