The World Congress of Freedom meeting took place in the building of the Parliament of Berlin

On November 8 and 9, 2025, the second session of the World Liberty Congress took place in Berlin.

A correspondent from Azda TV, who attended the event, reported that representatives and political opposition members, as well as supporters of freedom from 60 authoritarian countries, participated in the session, along with more than 180 activists and guests from around the world.

This is already the second session of the congress. The World Liberty Congress was founded in 2021. The first session of the congress was held in 2023 in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, with the participation of dissidents from 40 authoritarian countries. At that time, Masih Alinejad from Iran was elected chairperson of the congress, Garry Kasparov from Russia as vice-chairperson, and Leopoldo Lopez, former mayor of Caracas, Venezuela, as secretary-general.

An important achievement over the two years is that the World Liberty Congress received support from the Berlin Parliament to hold the next session of the World Liberty Congress directly in the parliament building.

The head of Azda TV, Mukhammedjon Kabirov, also participated in the session as a representative of Tajikistan. He reported that over two days, delegations from 60 countries discussed issues of democracy. On the first day, more than 30 international resolutions were adopted. On the second day, elections for the Governing Council and Executive Council of the World Liberty Congress took place, as well as elections for the chairperson, vice-chairperson, and secretary-general.

In the elections for the Governing Council from the Eastern Europe and Central Asia group, 6 candidates competed for 5 positions, and 2 candidates ran for the regional secretary position. 32 people participated in the voting, and the results were as follows:

Representative from Kazakhstan — 28 votes;
Representatives from Tajikistan and Belarus — 23 votes each;
Representative from Azerbaijan – Arif — 20 votes;
Mehman Guseynov — 18 votes;
Representative from Serbia received 7 votes and did not make it to the council.

In the elections for the regional secretary position, the representative from Russia received 20 votes, while the representative from Tajikistan received 11 votes. Later, the elected members of the Governing Council were to choose one representative for the Executive Council. The voting was between the representatives from Tajikistan and Belarus, and the majority of votes went to the representative from Belarus, who will serve as an ombudsman going forward.

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Delegations from 60 countries elected new leadership for the World Liberty Congress. As a result, Felix Maradiaga from Nicaragua was elected chairperson, Shukria Borikzai, former member of the Afghan parliament, as vice-chairperson, and Karin Kanimba from Rwanda as secretary-general.

Another achievement of the World Congress of Freedom is that the Mayor of Berlin agreed to make the city the annual organizer of the “Berlin Freedom Week.” In the future, sessions of the World Congress of Freedom will also take place in Berlin. Holding sessions in the building of the German Parliament will serve as a signal to authoritarian leaders around the world and a hope for freedom fighters and human rights defenders.

At the end of the day, in the building of the Berlin Parliament, the former leadership of the World Congress of Freedom officially transferred powers to the newly elected leaders, who took an oath and assumed leadership of the congress for the next two years.