Speakers
Venezuela
Leopoldo López
Venezuelan dissident, former political prisoner, co-founder of the World Liberty Congress
Russia
Marina Ovsyannikova
Journalist who famously interrupted live Russian TV news broadcast with a sign protesting Putin’s war on Ukraine
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
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
Belarus
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya
President-elect of Belarus, forced into exile by Lukashenko after 2020 rigged election
