Former President Mohamed Nasheed speaks at the protest against the expansion of Heathrow Airport in the UK.
Former President Mohamed Nasheed has been appointed as the leader of one of the largest Human Rights Summit in the world.
The summit scheduled for the end of upcoming February is organized by UN Watch jointly with 20 NGOs worldwide. The main objective of the summit is to address the current issues of human rights around the world.
In a joint press statement released by the organizations, it stated that Mohamed Nasheed is the summit leader who happens to be the world’s most popular anti-government activist and political prisoner.
In addition to Nasheed, famous political activists and prisoners and journalists are to join the summit.
Regarding the summit, the Executive Director of UN Watch, Hillel Neur, said, “The speakers’ compelling and vivid testimonies will aim to stir the conscience of the UN to address critical human rights situations around the world.”
Subjects on the program this year include discrimination against women, jailing of journalists, prison camps, Internet freedom, religious intolerance, and the persecution of human rights defenders.
Registration for the summit is open till February 21, 2017.
Nasheed, who is sentenced to thirteen years in jail on terrorism charges for the arbitrary detention of a judge during his tenure, will be travelling out of London for the summit for the second time since his self-exile in the United Kindgom.