North Korea

Kim Yumi

North Korean defector, escaped by boat with family in 2023

Venezuela

Leopoldo López

Venezuelan dissident, former political prisoner, co-founder of the World Liberty Congress

Hong Kong

Chloe Cheung

Youngest Hong Kong democracy activist on Beijing’s “Wanted Persons” list

Russia

Marina Ovsyannikova

Journalist who famously interrupted live Russian TV news broadcast with a sign protesting Putin’s war on Ukraine

Syria

Aram Aqil

Kurdish minority rights activist, former ISIS hostage

Sudan

Mutasim Ali

Sudanese human rights advocate, Legal Advisor at Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights

Afghanistan

Marzieh Hamidi

Afghan-Iranian Taekwondo athlete, advocate for women’s rights in Afghanistan

Vietnam

Huệ Như

Vietnamese pro-democracy and anti-corruption advocate, former political prisoner

Venezuela

Pedro Urruchurtu Noselli

Venezuelan opposition advisor, wanted for arrest on politically motivated charges, who took refuge for over 400 days inside Argentine embassy in Caracas

Iran

Masih Alinejad

Iranian journalist and women’s rights activist, repeated target of attempted assassinations