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2022 Oslo Freedom Forum

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10:00 CEST

SESSION I Main TheaterOmar Alshogre • Marianne Borgen • Evgenia Kara-Murza • Philippa Thomas • Agnès Callamard • Lynn Adib

11:45 CEST

SESSION II Main TheaterBektour Iskender • Fatma Karume • Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya • Veronica Tsepkalo • Tatsiana Khomich • Carolina Barrero • Øistein Kristiansen

14:30 CEST

Defending the Defenders: The Right to Protect the Environment Lille SalAnjan Sundaram • Alex Gonzalez Davidson • Mónica López Baltodano • John Unzima Corruption, Rent-Seeking, and the Acquisition of Loot: The Central Objectives of Authoritarianism Main TheaterThor Halvorssen • Joice Etutu • Paul Massaro • Casey Michel Citizen Lab and the Community: Drop-In Office Hours Citizen Lab Room

15:40 CEST

Fighting Transnational Repression Against Journalists Lille SalMegha Rajagopalan • Rushan Abbas • Masih Alinejad • Can Dündar

15:45 CEST

The Quest for Financial Freedom Main TheaterAlex Gladstein • Mauricio di Bartolomeo • Roya Mahboob • Abubakar Nur Khalil Twitter and the Community: Office Hours Innovation Room

16:05 CEST

Can Bitcoin Reach a Billion People? Main TheaterLyn Alden • Elizabeth Stark • Dario Sneidermanis • Hong Fang

16:30 CEST

Meet the Authors: Iyad El-Baghdadi & Ahmed Gatnash (The Middle East Crisis Factory: Tyranny, Resilience and Resistance) HRF Bookstore & CafeMelissa Mahtani • Iyad El-Baghdadi • Ahmed Gatnash The True Story of China’s Genocide of the Uyghurs: A Conversation with Nury Turkel and Garry Kasparov Lille SalGarry Kasparov • Nury Turkel How To Talk to Media Breakout RoomBobby Ghosh • Jenifer Vaughan (Fenton)

17:00 CEST

Meta & the Community: Office Hours Meta RoomMazuba Haanyama

17:10 CEST

Sportswashing: From the Beijing Genocide Games to Qatar’s FIFA World Cup Migrant Workers’ Crisis Lille SalKarim Zidan • Malcolm Bidali • Chemi Lhamo • Lise Klaveness Tech Tactics of New Authoritarianism Main TheaterScott Carpenter • Yaffa Fredrick • Beth Goldberg • Glacier Kwong • Rafal Rohozinski

17:30 CEST

Meet the Author and Book-Signing: Nury Turkel (No Escape: The True Story of China’s Genocide of the Uyghurs) HRF Bookstore & CafeNury Turkel

20:30 CEST

FILM SCREENING: The Story Won’t Die, directed by David Henry Gerson Vika Kino