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Succès Masra is a Chadian economist and politician who chairs the political
party Les Transformateurs launched in April 2018. Succès was appointed
to the Africa Development Bank’s Presidential Task Force with a focus on the development of renewable energies, and the implementation of the African Renewable Energy Initiative (AREI).
He resigned from his position as Principal Economist at the African Development Bank to launch “The Transormers” political party, which opposed the candidacy of autocrat Idriss Déby in the ballot of April 11, 2021.
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Andrei Sánnikov is a former
political prisoner. In the early 1990s, he headed the Belarusian delegation on Nuclear and Conventional Weapons Armament Negotiations. He also served as a Belarusian diplomat to Switzerland.
From 1995 to 1996, he served as Deputy Foreign Minister of Belarus, resigning in 1996 as a form of political protest. Sánnikov was a presidential candidate in the 2010 elections, and after organizing protests against the regime, was arbitrarily detained and tortured at a KGB facility in Minsk. He was released in 2012, and remains an advocate for a free and democratic Belarus.
#MeetWLC Maximilienne Ngo Mbe is a Cameroonian Human Rights Campaigner and activist. She leads the Réseau des Défenseurs des Droits Humains en Afrique Centrale (REDHAC), an NGO focused on protecting the rights of human rights activists in Central Africa.
Due to her work, she has faced constant harassment and threats to her safety. REDHAC offices have repeatedly been attacked and broken into. She moved her children to France in 2013 to protect them, but remained in Cameroon to continue the fight. She has been vocal in her criticism of government abuses, including the Ngarbuh massacre in 2020, where 22 civilians were massacred by government troops. In 2021, she was one of fourteen women to win the International Women of Courage Award.
#MeetWLC Berta Valle is a Nicaraguan journalist and a vocal critic of the Ortega regime. She is married to pro-democracy activist, presidential candidate, and former OFF speaker, Félix Maradiaga, who was imprisoned by Ortega’s regime in an unprecedented crackdown on Nicaragua's democratic opposition.
Berta is currently in exile and campaigns to bring international attention to the regime’s abuses, including the unjust imprisonment of her husband and more than 140 other political prisoners in the country. She successfully mobilized international support for her husband, who was recently released by the Nicaraguan regime.
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Roya Mahboob is an Afghan businesswoman, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. She is the founder and CEO of the Afghan Civil Software Company, and is among the first female etch CEOs in the country. She also founded the Digital Citizenship Fund, a nonprofit aimed at increasing women´s technological literacy.
Roya´s efforts at empowering Afghan women through education made her a target for the Taliban, and she was forced to leave her country. As a member of the WLC network, Roya is a powerful voice for the rights of women.
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Chemi Lhamo is a Tibetan-Canadian human rights activist and a community organizer.
She is a persistent advocate in the Tibetan freedom movement and has recently joined Students for a Free Tibet HQ as the Campaigns Director.
Formerly, the Community Health Lead at Parkdale People’s Economy, the Canadian representative for the International Tibet Network Steering Committee, Chemi serves on the leadership council of WLC and the board of Parkdale Neighbourhood Land Trust.
Her work and activism has landed her in the Top 50 Power list of Canada 2022 and the Tibetan Youth Icon award. Despite having faced harassment, death threats and transnational repression by the Chinese government, doubtless she remains a fighter for social justice and democracy both in her local community in Canada and for her estranged homeland Tibet.
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Iverson Ng (@ivehk) is an Estonia-based Junior Research Fellow, Hong Kong policy advocate, and columnist.
Three years ago, he successfully lobbied for an informal Hong Kong Support Group in Estonia’s parliament in October. In 2021, backed by almost 70 Estonian intellectuals and politicians, he initiated a public appeal on Chinese influence in Estonia responded by Prime Minister Kaja Kallas; he also advocated for a Hong Kong resolution adopted by the Lithuanian parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee in December.
Last year, he convened the first-ever Hongkongers in Europe Summit in Prague where Hongkongers from 10 European countries gathered to discuss the future of the Hong Kong community in Europe.
In addition to community building, he also testified at the Czech Chamber of Deputies on the Czech-Hong Kong extradition treaty and at the European Parliament on the implementation of the Hong Kong National Security Law.
Recently, as convener of the Hong Kong-Europe Diaspora Alliance, he hosted a closed-door side meeting on Hong Kong with Hongkongers from 9 countries across the Atlantic Ocean.
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Bob Rugurika (@rugbob78) is the Director of Radio Publique Africaine – RPA (African Public Radio), a private radio station of Burundi known for dealing with human rights-related issues.
The human rights defender has been under surveillance and received threatening phone calls in the past, after RPA reported on leads pertaining to the killing in 2009 of anti-corruption activist Mr Ernest Manirumva, ex-vice president of the Observatoire de Lutte Contre la Corruption et les Malversations Economiques – OLUCOME (Observatory for the Fight Against Corruption and Economic Embezzlement ), as well as a massacre in the town of Gatumba in 2011.
In 2015, Mr. Rugurika investigated and published the results of the assassination, by the Burundian intelligence services, of three Italian Catholic sisters.
For his work, Mr Rugurika was arrested and imprisoned by the regime in isolation. Currently in exile, he continues his work of informing the Burundian and international opinion through the RPA which broadcasts from exile.
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Wu’er Kaixi (@wuerkaixi) was born in #China in 1968, an Uyghur national. He was one of the founders and key organizers of the 1989 Tiananmen student movement.
Listed as number 2 among the Chinese government’s most wanted student leaders after the June 4th massacre, he fled the country and started his exile life.
Currently, he lives in Taiwan, where he remains as an active human rights and democracy activist and a celebrated political commentator and columnist.
He serves as the General Secretary of the Taiwan Parliamentary Human Rights Commission, Emeritus Board member of Reporters Without Borders, Honorary President of the Ilham Tohti Institute, Honorary Chairman for the Campaign for #Uyghur.
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Carmen Lau (@carmenkamanlau) is a Hong Kong activist who is now living in exile in the UK. She proactively engaged in the 2019 pro-democracy movement as the legislative assistant for a now-jailed legislator. She then was elected as a District Councillor, and became the deputy secretary-general of the Civic Party, the second largest pro-democratic political party in Hong Kong.
In 2021, however, she refused to take the patriotic oath and resigned – and later fled Hong Kong to the UK. In December 2021, along with four other Hong Kong activists, she was wanted over “blank votes incitement” during the Legislative Council elections. A warrant was issued by the Hong Kong court.
Currently, she is the committee member of ‘Hong Kong March’, a UK-wide cultural festival promoting Hong Kong culture and identity. She also works with different organizations to help with the Hong Kong diasporas and rebuilding Hongkongers’ civil society overseas in her personal capacity.
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Hager Eissa (@hagir222) is an experienced translator, interpreter, a public speaker, and Human Rights activist. She is an Obama Leader cohort 2023 at the Obama Foundation, and a part of the AMEL Institute leadership program 2023.
Hager has been selected as one of the 100 most influential African descent class 2023 by the MIPAD in support of the United Nations. She is a Global Peace Ambassador and country director to Austria, She is the founder of her NGO that promotes education in Sudan, and a Co-Founder of a small community group.
Hager has represented Sudan in several international summits, including the Global Peace Chain Summit in Ukraine. She has been playing a major role in her community by founding an initiative that empowers women of color in achieving their goals and aspirations. Over the past 8 years, she has been a noteworthy leader in peace, education, women empowerment, and human rights.
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Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) is an outspoken advocate for human rights and democracy in #Russia.
Widely considered history’s greatest chess player, Kasparov retired from the sport in 2005, to devote his time to writing and human rights activism. An ardent critic of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, Kasparov created the United Civil Front, a social movement with the mission of preventing Russia from returning to totalitarianism.
He is a frequent contributor to major international publications including The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.
Kasparov is currently chairman of the Human Rights Foundation. He is frequently called upon to give his opinion on behalf of the HRF and is critical of both U.S. and Russian policies as well as repressive leaders throughout the world.
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Carine Kanimba (@ckanimba) survived Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, during which her father, Paul Rusesabagina, saved more than 1,200 people in his hotel.
In 2020, her father who is a Belgian citizen and U.S. Permanent Resident was forcibly rendered to Rwanda and imprisoned for speaking out against the tyranny of the man credited with ending the genocide: Paul Kagame.
Carine Kanimba campaigned tirelessly to free her father from a Rwandan prison. Her efforts were successful and after two and half years Paul Rusesabagina was released. Kanimba’s pursuit for her father’s freedom has been inspiring and courageous.
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Ammar Abdulhamid (@TheActualAmmar) is a Syrian author, human rights activist, and political dissident.
He is the president and cofounder of the Tharwa foundation, a nonprofit which promotes diversity, development, and democracy in Syria and the broader Middle East and North Africa.
After calling for the overthrow of the Assad regime in 2005, Mr. Abdulhamid and his family were forced to leave #Syria.
Over the years, Ammar served as a fellow at Brookings Institution and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, briefed officials in the U.S. and Europe on the human rights situation in Syria, and provided Congressional testimonies.
Between 2018 and 2022, he co-hosted an Arabic TV program on Alhurra Channel dedicated to analyzing current developments from a classical liberal perspective.
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Masih Alinejad (@AlinejadMasih) is an Iranian journalist and activist who advocates for personal choice in wearing the hijab.
In 2014, she spearheaded a Facebook page called “My Stealthy Freedom” to protest Iran’s compulsory public hijab law for women and girls. For her commitment to human rights, she was awarded UN Watch’s International Women’s Rights Award, the AIB Media Excellence Award, and the Swiss Freethinker Association’s Freethinker Prize, among other honors.
Her memoir, “The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran,” was released in 2018. Alinejad currently lives in exile in New York City and continues to advocate for the #WomenLifeFreedom movement.
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Evan Mawarire (@PastorEvanLive) is a Zimbabwean pastor and civil rights activist.
He is best known as the founder of the #ThisFlag peaceful protest movement, which utilized the Zimbabwean flag as a symbol of national pride in a social media campaign to ignite public demand for accountability of the government’s widespread corruption and abuse of office.
Mr. Mawarire’s work has attracted international attention: Foreign Policy named him one of the 100 global thinkers of 2016, and South Africa’s Daily Maverick newspaper named him the 2016 African Person of the Year.
In addition to holding fellowships at Stanford University and Yale University, Mr. Mawarire has addressed audiences at The Atlantic Council, Harvard, Oxford Union, Oslo Freedom Forum, and Geneva Summit.
As a result of his work, Mr. Mawarire was imprisoned and tortured in 2016, 2017, and 2019 and charged with treason facing 80 years in prison.
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Joey Siu is a Hongkongese-American human rights activist.
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Peter Biar Ajak is a South Sudanese peace activist, scholar, and former political prisoner.
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Jhanisse Vaca Daza is the
co-founder of Ríos de Pie, a
non-violent citizen movement focused on human and environmental rights in Bolivia.
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Fadi Elsalameen (@Elsalameen) is an adjunct senior fellow at the American Security Project and the president of the “Palestinian Security Project”, a new think tank that has been created to develop a Palestinian national security vision and strategy.
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