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Sudan

Niemat Ahmadi

Sudanese women’s rights defender and survivor of the Darfur Genocide

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Iran

Maryam Diyor

Mother of Abolfazl Amir-Ataei who was murdered at the age of 16 by the Islamic regime while participating in the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom protests

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Afghanistan

Massouda Jalal

Former Afghan Minister of Women’s Affairs and the first woman to run for President of Afghanistan

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Afghanistan

Husna Jalal

Exiled Afghan women’s rights activist and the daughter of Massouda Jalal

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Russia

Garry Kasparov

Human rights activist, promoter of democracy, and former World Chess Champion

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Hong Kong

Sebastien Lai

Democracy activist and son of imprisoned pro-democracy media entrepreneur Jimmy Lai

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Uyghur persecution

Rahima Mahmut

Uyghur human rights activist, translator, and singer

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Iran

Mahan Mehrabi

Sister of Iranian political prisoners Mahmoud and Maryam Mehrabi

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Tibet

Namkyi

Exiled Tibetan activist and former political prisoner

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Vietnam

Van Trang Nguyen

Vietnamese democracy activist and victim of transnational repression

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China

Times Wang

Human rights lawyer and the son of Chinese political prisoner Wang Bingzhang

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Iran

Nazanin Afshin-Jam

Iranian-born Canadian human rights advocate and co-founder of Stop Child Executions

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Political Prisoners

Irwin Cotler

International Chair of Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, former Minister of Justice & Attorney General of Canada