Astrid
Presenter

Astrid Thors

Finnish politician and former OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities

Lord Trimble
Human Rights

David Trimble

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Member of British House of Lords

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Tibet

Tenzin Tsundue

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

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Nicaragua

Berta Valle

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

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Russia

Pyotr Verzilov

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

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Russia

Leonid Volkov

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

Cristopher Walker
Moderator

Christopher Walker

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

Ren Wanding
China

Ren Wanding

Chinese dissident and scholar imprisoned for pro-democracy activism

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China

Ti-Ana Wang

Chinese dissident, whose father is imprisoned in China

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Tibet

Dhondup Wangchen

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

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Hong Kong

Lam Wing-kee

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

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Bart Woord

Former Secretary General of the International Federation of Liberal Youth