AAFIA SIDDIQUI: THE MOST OPPRESSED WOMAN IN AMERICAN PRISON

Yvonne Ridley is a British journalist and author who provides political analysis on matters relating to the Middle East, Asia, and the Global War on Terror. Her work has been published in various media outlets worldwide, ranging from. With a decade of experience working for major titles on Fleet Street, she broadened her scope into electronic and broadcast media, producing documentaries on Palestinian and other international issues such as Guantanamo, Libya, and the Arab Spring.

A British attorney who specialises in the areas of civil rights and working against the death penalty in the United States of America. He is the founder of Reprieve and has spent 25 years working on behalf of defendants facing the death penalty in the US. In addition, he has represented more than 80 of the detainees held as enemy combatants since 2002 at the US Guantanamo Bay prison.

A British-born Muslim, Moazzam Begg is a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner and outreach director for CAGE.

After his release, he became one of the most prominent public-speakers and Muslim advocates for justice and dialogue. 

He is the author of the best-seller Enemy Combatant in which he recounts his experience as an innocent man detained and torture at Guantanamo, Bagram and Kandahar.

The Muslim 500 listed him as one of the 500 “most influential Muslims” in the world.
The New Statesman listed him in the top 50 “Heroes of our time”.

He has travelled extensively to investigate state abuses and western complicity in torture including to Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, and Syria.

A direct eye-witness to the conflicts in Bosnia, Afghanistan and Syria, his life has been recorded by the Columbia University Oral History project, and the BBC Storyville documentary, The Confession.

Fowzia Siddiqui is a Harvard-trained neurologist. She is the sister of Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani national serving an 86-year sentence in the United States for attempted murder and other felonies. Fowzia Siddiqui comes from a family with a background in medicine, education, and activism, with her mother being an Islamic teacher and social worker, and her father a British-trained neurosurgeon.

Dr. Omar Suleiman is a world-renowned scholar and theologically driven activist for human rights. He is the Founder and President of the Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research and an adjunct professor of Islamic Studies in the Graduate Liberal Studies program at Southern Methodist University. He's also the resident scholar of the Valley Ranch Islamic Center and Co-Chair Emeritus of Faith Forward Dallas at Thanks-Giving Square, a multi-faith coalition of clergy for peace and justice. In addition to being recognized by CNN as one of 25 Muslim American changemakers, Suleiman is included in The Muslim 500 - an annual ranking of the world's most influential Muslims compiled by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre. In 2019, the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University and Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives recognized Suleiman among 200 honorees who embody the legacy of the abolitionist’s commitment to social change. He is a native of New Orleans and currently resides in Dallas with his wife and 3 children.