The Return of Authoritarianism - The Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy

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To Be Confirmed

Speakers and Participants

Can Dündar

Leading Turkish journalist arrested and forced into exile for his brave reporting

Zhanna Nemtsova

Journalist, founder of the Boris Nemtsov Foundation for Freedom

Anastasia Zotova

Wife of jailed Russian dissident Ildar Dadin

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The Return of Authoritarianism with Zhanna Nemtsova, Anastasia Zotova, Can Dündar