Venezuela
Luis Almagro
Secretary General of the Organization of American States, former Foreign Minister of Uruguay
Speakers
Venezuela
María-Alejandra Aristeguieta-Álvarez
Ambassador-designate in Switzerland of Venezuela’s interim President Juan Guaido
Turkey
Yavuz Baydar
Turkish journalist who won the 2014 European Press Prize for fighting censorship in Turkey
Russia
William Browder
Hedge fund manager who lead successful campaign to adopt Magnitsky Act, a U.S. law sanctioning Russian oligarchs
Political Prisoners
Irwin Cotler
International Chair of Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, former Minister of Justice & Attorney General of Canada
China
Yang Jianli
Chinese dissident, former political prisoner, Tiananmen Square massacre survivor and President of Initiatives for China
Golog Jigme
Tibetan monk and human rights activist
Venezuela
Antonio Ledezma
Venezuelan opposition leader, political prisoner who escaped in November 2017
Democratic Republic of Congo
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
Iran
Maryam Malekpour
Sister of Saeed Malekpour, Iranian developer serving a life sentence in Evin prison on spurious charges.
Zimbabwe
Evan Mawarire
Zimbabwean protest leader, arrested six times and tortured for his civil rights work
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
Pakistan
Taha Siddiqui
Pakistani journalist and social media activist who narrowly escaped a abduction
North Korea
Fred and Cindy Warmbier
Parents of Otto Warmbier, American student tortured in North Korea
