Presenter

Astrid Thors

Finnish politician and former OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities

Human Rights

David Trimble

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Member of British House of Lords

Tibet

Tenzin Tsundue

Tibetan refugee & writer arrested 16 times for his activism, completed 127-day Himalayan walk for Tibet

Nicaragua

Berta Valle

Nicaraguan journalist, wife of opposition leader and former political prisoner Félix Maradiaga

Russia

Pyotr Verzilov

Russian performance artist, husband of imprisoned Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, member of the Pussy Riot feminist rock band

Russia

Leonid Volkov

Chief of Staff to Russian opposition leader & political prisoner Alexei Navalny

Moderator

Christopher Walker

Vice-President, Studies and Analysis, National Endowment for Democracy

China

Ren Wanding

Chinese dissident and scholar imprisoned for pro-democracy activism

China

Ti-Ana Wang

Chinese dissident, whose father is imprisoned in China

Tibet

Dhondup Wangchen

Tibetan filmmaker and activist who spent six years in a Chinese prison

Hong Kong

Lam Wing-kee

Abducted by Chinese authorities for selling politically sensitive books in Hong Kong

Bart Woord

Former Secretary General of the International Federation of Liberal Youth