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Revolution in the Middle East

A panel including Tunisian blogger and activist, Lina Ben Mhenni; award-winning Egyptian blogger, activist, and writer, Mahmoud Salem; journalist and international affairs commentator specializing in Middle Eastern history and politics, Charles Super; and one of Egypt’s leading human rights activists, Executive Director of the Center for Middle East and East Mediterranean Studies, and Chairperson of the Liberal Democracy Institute, Dalia Ziada, address the 3rd Annual Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy – see below for full prepared remarks.

 

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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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