Protecting Press Freedom and Internet Freedom

A discussion with prominent Venezuelan journalist and political activist, Miguel Angel Rodriguez, and international lawyer and associate counsel at the International Criminal Court (ICC), Ilana Soskin, at the 3rd Annual Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy – see below for full prepared remarks.

 

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Speakers and Participants

Victor Navarro

Exiled Venezuelan human rights activist and former political prisoner

Ali Ehsassi

Member of Canadian Parliament, Chair of Foreign Affairs Committee

Veronica Tsepkalo

Exiled Belarusian opposition figure and chair of the Belarus Women’s Foundation

Toribia Lero Quispe

Bolivian indigenous leader from the Sura Nation, member of the Bolivian Legislative Assembly

Job Sikhala

Zimbabwean opposition leader held for 595 days in pre-trial detention

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