Berta Valle is a Nicaraguan journalist, human rights activist, and vocal critic of the Ortega regime. She is married to pro-democracy activist, and former presidential candidate Félix Maradiaga, who was imprisoned from June 8, 2021, to February 21, 2023, by Ortega’s regime in an unprecedented crackdown on the opposition in Nicaragua. With fifteen years of…

Puma Shen is an Associate Professor at the National Taipei University. He is an expert on white-collar crime, including state crime, disinformation campaigns, and financial crime. His work focuses on the rule of law and human rights advocacy. In 2019, Shen’s article on China’s disinformation chain circulated widely among academics and Taiwanese society, contributing to…

Mariam Safi is the founding Director of the Organization for Policy Research and Development Studies (DROPS), established in Afghanistan in 2014 with the aim of building democratic governance through evidence-based research, policy-oriented studies, capacity building, and networking programs. She is also the co-founder of The Afghanistan Mechanism for Inclusive Peace (AMIP) which aims to ensure…

Mai El-Sadany is a human rights lawyer with a focus on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. She is currently the Executive Director of the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP), an organization dedicated to centering the insights and expertise of advocates from and in the MENA region in the policy discourse…