DHARAMSHALA: Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay will attend the fifth annual Oslo Freedom Forum on 13 – 14 May. 

The Sikyong will join a galaxy of world’s most influential dissidents, innovators, journalists, philanthropists, and policymakers to discuss how best to challenge authoritarianism and promote free and open societies at the forum. He will give a keynote speech on ‘democracy in exile’.

Other noted speakers include Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng, recently escaped blogger Ali Abdulemam, Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa, Syrian war correspondent Jenan Moussa, Zimbabwean artist Owen Maseko, Belarusian theater director Natalia Kaliada, Magnitsky Act originator Bill Browder, Malaysian lawyer and democracy advocate Ambiga Sreenevasan, Bangladeshi child marriage abolitionist Arzina Begum, Serbian nonviolent resistance leader Srdja Popovic, and Cameroonian musician and former political prisoner Lapiro de Mbanga.

Live webcast

The talks and panels will be streamed live at www.oslofreedomforum.com.  (View the full program here).