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North Korea

Kim Yumi

North Korean defector, escaped by boat with family in 2023

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Venezuela

Leopoldo López

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

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Hong Kong

Chloe Cheung

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

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Russia

Marina Ovsyannikova

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

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Syria

Aram Aqil

Kurdish minority rights activist, former ISIS hostage

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Sudan

Mutasim Ali

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

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Afghanistan

Marzieh Hamidi

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

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Vietnam

Huệ Như

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

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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

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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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