A number of senior journalists, authors, anti-US musicians, political analyists, university professors and renowned political activists took part in the event.
The participants attending the three-day event are mostly from the United States, and also several countries of Europe.
The first panel of the event hosted the presentations of several experts focused on police brutality, racism and discrimination against blacks in the US.
A number of Iranian experts and US scholars and thinkers presented lectures criticizing police brutality against African Americans, massacre of African Americans and widespread human rights violations both in domestic and international arenas in the US community.
The first day of the conference included interesting and passionate lectures by American scholars, including Cicile Johnson and Wilmer Leon, and a beautiful performance by African American poet Amir Suleiman who read a poem describing unfortunate conditions of blacks in the US.
Meanwhile, three books on Zionism, Israeli lobbies, collapse of morality in the West and racism in the US community were revealed and discussed during the conference.
The first and second edition of the International New Horizon Independent Conference were presented in 2012 and 2014.
The first conference focused on the influence of the Zionist lobby on the West in the process of nuclear talks with Iran, however, the second was accompanied with a film festival representing Islamic Resistance against the Israeli regime, war threats against Iran and anti-war movements, the Islamic Revolution of Iran, Iranophobia and Islamophobia, world without Zionism, and world without terrorism and atomic weapon.
New Horizon conference and festival is a place where independent thinkers and scholars can gather and engage in debate and deliberation on various aspects of world and important issues.
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