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The Raoul Wallenberg International Roundtable, 14.-15. September - Swedish Army Museum - Stockholm

Sweden's Disappeared And The Long Search For Justice


Marie Dupuy     Niece of Raoul Wallenberg                  Daria Sukhikh   Lead Attorney,  Team 29

  • on the pending litigation in Russia against the Federal Security Service (FSB), requesting access to documentation that could clarify the fate of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg who disappeared in the Soviet Union in 1945. The first formal court hearing in Moscow is scheduled for 18 September 2017.

Esayas Isaak    Brother of Dawit Isaak                          Percy Bratt        Human Rights Attorney

  • Call for a formal Commission of Inquiry to review the official Swedish handling of the illegal arrest and detention of Swedish-Eritrean writer  Dawit Isaak in Eritrea since 2001

Angela Gui       Daughter of Gui Minhai                         Jesús Alcalá     Human Rights Attorney

  • about new efforts to win the release of Swedish-Chinese publisher Gui Minhai, held in China since 2015


Other Relatives of Sweden's Disappeared, Historians and Legal Experts available for media interviews

Family Members
  • Louise von Dardel     Cecilia Åhlberg                      Raoul Wallenberg
  • Roger Älmeberg        Hans Bok                                DC-3
  • Bethlehem Isaak                                                        Dawit Isaak
  • Kerstin von Seth                                                        Swedish Sailors


Legal Experts/Human Rights Defenders

David Matas  Ivan Pavlov  Jonathan Lundqvist   Irwin Cotler    Martin Schibbye   Manuel Vergara Céspedes


Historians

Susanne Berger      Vadim Birstein     Ingrid Carlberg    Marvin Makinen       Peter Ruggenthaler       Matthias Uhl             Irmtrud Wojak     Peter Johnsson

Kategorier

  • raoul wallenberg
  • gui minhai
  • dawit isaak
  • dc-3
  • cold war
  • gulag
  • soviet union
  • team 29
  • sweden
  • russia

Founded in 2015, the Raoul Wallenberg Research Initiative (RWI-70) is an informal alliance of more than 80 international historians, Holocaust survivors, family members of former political prisoners, legal experts, retired diplomats and human rights defenders. The central aim of the RWI-70 is to determine the full circumstances of Raoul Wallenberg’s fate in the former Soviet Union.

Kontakter

Susanne Berger

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