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
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
Afghanistan
Massouda Jalal
Former Afghan Minister of Women’s Affairs and the first woman to run for President of Afghanistan
Hong Kong
Sebastien Lai
Democracy activist and son of imprisoned pro-democracy media entrepreneur Jimmy Lai