Liberal International Human Rights Committee

Network of Liberal Parliamentarians on Human Rights

UNHRC Headquarters, Geneva, 23-24 June 2016

Imprisoned for Thinking

Programme of Events

FINAL VERSION
Thursday 23 June 2016
Time Activity
16:00 19:00 Arrival of LI delegates/ Registration in Hotel Best Western
Strasbourg
Rue Pradier 10
1201 Geneva
19:00-21:00 Welcoming Reception

Hosted by His Excellency Chih-Chen Yi, Director-General, Taipei

Cultural and Economic Delegation to Geneva

Hotel Warwick
Restaurant TESEO
14 Rue de Lausanne
Geneva 1201, Switzerland

Friday 24 June 2016

Time Activity
7:30 Meet at Hotel Best Western Strasbourgs Lobby for Departure to
Palais Des Nations

8:00-9:50 REGISTRATION AND UN PASSES ISSUANCE

Palais des Nations
Pregny Gate
8-14 Avenue de la Paix
1211 Geneva 10
10:00 10:15 Welcoming Remarks
-Dr. Juli Minoves, LI President and Former Andorran Ambassador to
the United Nations

-Caroline Green, IFLRY Representative, Junge Liberale, Germany

10:15 11:30 Panel Political Prisoners: Silenced Democratic Heroes and the
Criminalization of Dissent

Chair:
 -Markus Loening, LI Vice-President on the Bureau and Chairman of LI
Human Rights Committee; Vice-President on ALDE Party Bureau
Panel Discussion:

-Olga Tikhomirova, Director of the Boris Nemtsov Foundation for

Freedom, Russia
-Medard Mulangala, Vice-President on ALN Bureau and LI HRC
Member, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Africa Liberal Network)
Palais des Nations, Geneva

Room XXI
11:30 11:45 Family Photo

11:45-12:00 Walk from the Meeting Room to the UN Restaurant

12:00 15:30 Working Lunch

Advancing and promoting civil and political rights through LI Human

Rights Committee

Welcome:
sa Nilsson-Sderstrm, Information Officer, Swedish International
Liberal Centre (SILC)

Moderator:
Markus Lning, LI VP and LI HRC Chair; ALDE-Party Vice-President
on the Bureau (Free Democratic Party, Germany)

Input:

-Lord John Alderdice, LI President of Honour and Honorary Patron of

LI Human Rights Committee (Liberal Democrats, UK)

-Assiatou Diallo Bah, Member of Parliament and LI HRC Member,

(Union des Forces Democratiques de Guinee, Guinea)

-Spela Kosic, Human Rights Expert, Permanent Representation of

Slovenia to the United Nations in Geneva

Restaurant de l'ONU
Palais des Nations
Genve, Switzerland

15:30 16:00 Networking

16:00-17:25 Freedom of expression denied: (Ab)use of the press in an age of

Terror and Oppression
 Keynote Remarks

-Her Excellency Dunja Mijatovi, OSCE Special Representative on

Freedom of the Media

Chair:
-Baroness Kishwer Falkner, LI Vice-President on the Bureau; Member
of the House of Lords (Liberal Democrats, United Kingdom)

Panel Discussion:

-Mohamed Fahmy, Award-Winning Egyptian-born Canadian

journalist, former prisoner of conscience and founder of the Fahmy
Foundation for Free Speech
-Yavuz Baydar, Journalist and Founding Member of Platform for
Independent Journalism (P24)

Palais des Nations, Geneva

Room XXV
17:25-17:30 Closing

18:00-19:30 LI HRC Administrative Session (by invitation only)

- Liberal Internationals work of the United Nations

- LI HRC and the human rights work of member parties
- Liberal Internationals Human Rights Work and its role in the day to day
work of liberal parliamentarians

Rosset SA
Rue de Varembe 1A
Geneva 1202
20:30 Dinner with LI Bureau Members

(Self-Funded)
Saturday 25 June 2016
Time Activity
10:00-14:00 LI BUREAU MEETING
(by invitation only)

Rosset SA
Rue de Varembe 1A
Geneva 1202