EP - Tribute to Woman, Life, Freedom movement : 2023 Sakharov Prize laureate, Iran
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Tribute to Woman, Life, Freedom movement
2023 Sakharov Prize laureate, Iran
Brussels, 22 September 2025 – Room Spaak 6B54
Draft Programme
14:30 – 14:45 Welcome address by Sophie Wilmès (Vice-President for the Sakharov Community)
and screening of the 2023 Sakharov Prize Ceremony
14:45 – 15:45 Panel 1: Repression, inside and outside Iran
Moderator: Hannah Neumann (D-IR Chair)
- Mersedeh Shahinkar, on behalf of the 2023 Sakharov Prize laureate (online)
- Marcus Michaelsen, researcher on digital transnational repression
- Esmaeil Abdi, Secretary General of Iran's Teachers Trade Association
- Noushin Keshavarznia, women’s rights activist and social researcher
15:45 – 16:00 Networking coffee break
16:00 – 17:15 Panel 2: Accountability – international responses and pathways to justice
Moderator: Mounir Satouri (DROI Chair)
- Dr Mai Sato, UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights Situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran
- Shahin Milani, Executive Director of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC), part of the Iran Digital Archive Coalition
- Hussein Baoumi, Amnesty International
- Aida Ghajar, Sakharov Fellow, journalist
Conclusions: DEG Member tbc
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