Speakers
Abduweli Ayup
Uyghur activist who endured detention by Chinese authorities for advocating Uyghur rights
Fatou Baldeh
Gambian women’s rights activist and survivor fighting to end Female Genital Mutilation
Aleksandra Garmazhapova
Russian anti-war activist and investigative journalist, founder of the Free Buryatia Foundation
Hyosim Maeng
North Korean defector, human rights activist, and advocate for disability rights
Manuel Valls
Former Prime Minister of France
Toribia Lero Quispe
Bolivian indigenous leader from the Sura Nation, member of the Bolivian Legislative Assembly
Gazelle Sharmahd
Daughter of Jamshid Sharmahd, fighting against her father’s unjust imprisonment and death sentence in Iran
Veronica Tsepkalo
Exiled Belarusian opposition figure and chair of the Belarus Women’s Foundation
Pouria Zeraati and Aliasghar Ramezanpour
Iran International journalists targeted by the Iranian regime
Kylie Moore-Gilbert
Australian-British academic freed after two years in Iranian prison as a victim of hostage diplomacy
