North Korea
Songmi Han
North Korean escapee and survivor of extreme poverty, oppression, and abandonment.
Speakers
Hong Kong
Denise Ho
Hong Kong pro-democracy activist and award-winning singer and actress (by video)
Hong Kong
Frances Hui
First Hong Kong activist to win political asylum in the US, director of We the Hong Kongers
Afghanistan
Nila Ibrahimi
15-year-old Hazara activist who narrowly escaped the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan
Venezuela
Hasler Iglesias
Venezuelan youth leader, went into hiding to escape arrest by the Maduro regime
The Philippines
Vicente de Lima II
Brother of Philippine Senator Leila de Lima, jailed for criticizing Duterte’s Drug War
China
Jewher Ilham
Author, rights activist, and daughter of Uyghur scholar sentenced to life in prison for promoting peace
Uyghur
Dolkun Isa
President of the World Uyghur Congress, former pro-democracy student leader targeted in China
Pakistan
Gulalai Ismail
Pakistani women’s rights activist, political prisoner and escapee after going into forced hiding
Afghanistan
Soomaya Javadi
Young Hazara activist who fled Afghanistan following the overthrow of Kabul
China
Yang Jianli
Chinese dissident, former political prisoner, Tiananmen Square massacre survivor and President of Initiatives for China
Golog Jigme
Tibetan monk and human rights activist
Cuba
Abraham Jiménez Enoa
Prominent Cuban journalist forced into exile, grandson of the bodyguard to Fidel Castro and Che Guevara
Democratic Republic of Congo
Rebecca Kabuo
Congolese rights activist named the world’s youngest Prisoner of Conscience
