Syria
Abdalaziz Alhamza
Award-winning Syrian journalist, co-founder of Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently
Speakers
Political Prisoners
Irwin Cotler
International Chair of Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, former Minister of Justice & Attorney General of Canada
Venezuela
Juan Carlos Gutiérrez
Human Rights Lawyer, President of the World Jurist Association’s Human Rights Institute
Human Rights
Hakima El Haité
President of Liberal International, Former Minister of Environment for Morocco
The Philippines
Vicente de Lima II
Brother of Philippine Senator Leila de Lima, jailed for criticizing Duterte’s Drug War
China
Yang Jianli
Chinese dissident, former political prisoner, Tiananmen Square massacre survivor and President of Initiatives for China
Human Rights
Michael Levitt
Canadian MP, Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Former Chair of the Human Rights Subcommittee
Nicaragua
Félix Maradiaga
Nicaraguan opposition leader and former political prisoner, targeted by the government on false criminal charges
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
Burundi
Ketty Nivyabandi
Poet and exiled Burundian democracy activist, led a movement of women-only protests
Iran
Richard Ratcliffe
Husband of arbitrarily detained British-Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, leads #FreeNazanin campaign
