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Human Rights

Markus Löning

Chair of Liberal International’s Human Rights Committee

Venezuela

Julieta López

Aunt of imprisoned Venezuelan opposition leader, Leopoldo López

China

Sophie Luo

Activist, wife of Chinese political prisoner Ding Jiaxi

Democratic Republic of Congo

Julienne Lusenge

Leading women’s rights champion fighting rape as a weapon of war in eastern Congo, president of Female Solidarity for Integrated Peace and Development

Zimbabwe

Fadzayi Mahere

Constitutional lawyer, opposition spokesperson arrested repeatedly in Zimbabwe

Pakistan

Mukhtar Mai

Pakistani rape victim, author and human rights activist

Iran

Maryam Malekpour

Sister of Saeed Malekpour, Iranian developer serving a life sentence in Evin prison on spurious charges.

Saudi Arabia

Elham Manea

Professor of Middle East affairs and family spokesperson for Raif Badawi

Nicaragua

Félix Maradiaga

Nicaraguan opposition leader and former political prisoner, targeted by the government on false criminal charges

Pavel Marozau

Belarusian and Estonian civic activist, media manager, and web producer

Pakistan

Ashiq Masih

Husband of Asia Bibi, first Pakistani woman sentenced to death for blasphemy

Zimbabwe

Evan Mawarire

Zimbabwean protest leader, arrested six times and tortured for his civil rights work

Iran

Ebrahim Mehtari

Activist in Iran’s Green Movement, arrested and tortured by the regime

Turkey

Nevşin Mengü

Turkish journalist dropped from CNN Türk after she criticized President Erdogăn

Mauritania

Abidine Merzough

Anti-slavery activist, European Coordinator of the Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement in Mauritania

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