Tag: Oslo
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Meet Oslo Freedom Forum Speaker Abraham Jiménez Enoa
[ad_1] Meet Abraham Jiménez Enoa (@JimenezEnoa), a Cuban journalist and 2023 Oslo Freedom Discussion board speaker. Jiménez Enoa is aware of fairly nicely what it seems to be wish to dwell below a Communist regime, rising up in a household of senior army figures within the Cuban authorities. His grandfather, as an illustration, served as…
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Belarus Art Exhibit at the 2023 Oslo Freedom Forum
[ad_1] OSLO, NORWAY (Might 26, 2023) – The Human Rights Basis (HRF)’s Artwork in Protest program is happy to announce Voices of the New Belarus, an artwork exhibition by famend Belarusian playwright Andrei Kureichik and translated by John Freedman. The exhibition brings consideration to the wrestle of the Belarusian individuals in opposition to a brutal…
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Meet Oslo Freedom Forum Speaker Víctor Navarro
[ad_1] Meet Víctor Navarro, a Venezuelan journalist, former political prisoner, and a 2023 Oslo Freedom Discussion board speaker. In 2018, as a 22-year-old, Navarro was arbitrarily detained by the Bolivarian Nationwide Intelligence Service and held in El Helicoide, Venezuela’s largest and most infamous torture heart. He has described the atrocious remedy and torture he endured…
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Zara Larsson to Perform at the 2023 Oslo Freedom Forum
[ad_1] OSLO, NORWAY (Could 18, 2023) — The Human Rights Basis (HRF) is worked up to announce that world-renowned Swedish pop singer Zara Larsson will likely be performing on the fifteenth version of the Oslo Freedom Discussion board subsequent month. Larsson rose to the worldwide stage in 2016 as a vivid songwriter with a vibrant…
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Meet Oslo Freedom Forum Speaker Mzwandile Masuku
[ad_1] Meet Mzwandile Masuku (@mzwandymas), a Swazi human rights lawyer and a 2023 Oslo Freedom Discussion board speaker. He’s the son of the late outstanding opposition chief, Mario Masuku, who was arrested in 2014 and held for over a yr on expenses of terrorism, sedition, and subversion. Masuku and his household suffered excessive persecution and…
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Meet Oslo Freedom Forum Speaker Hanna Liubakova
[ad_1] Meet Hanna Liubakova (@HannaLiubakova), an exiled Belarusian journalist, non-resident fellow on the Atlantic Council, and 2023 Oslo Freedom Discussion board speaker. Liubakova started her profession on the solely unbiased Belarusian information channel, Belsat TV, the place she labored as a correspondent, presenter, and host of their essential information program, “In Focus.” However after her…
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Meet Oslo Freedom Forum Speaker Malcolm Bidali
[ad_1] Meet Malcolm Bidali (@NoahArticulates), a outstanding Kenyan human rights defender, migrant employees’ rights activist, and 2023 Oslo Freedom Discussion board speaker. Bidali, a former migrant employee, was arrested in Could 2021 and held in solitary confinement for anonymously blowing the whistle on the brutal situations of migrant laborers within the lead-up to Qatar’s internet…
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Freya the walrus gets her own sculpture in Oslo
[ad_1] Freya the walrus has had her personal sculpture constructed alongside the coast of Oslo, in commemoration of her life. The sculpture is a lifesize artwork piece of Freya mendacity on her facet on the Kongen marina shores. An internet marketing campaign rose $25 000 to fund the constructing of the sculpture. The walrus frequented…
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Meet Oslo Freedom Forum Speaker Pastor Kim
[ad_1] Meet Pastor Seungeun Kim (@Pastorkim_Caleb), a prominent human rights advocate, the head of the Caleb Mission, a Christian church based in South Korea, and a 2023 Oslo Freedom Forum speaker. If you don’t know his story, you can see it prominently showcased in the film “Beyond Utopia,” which won the Audience Award for US…