FRANCE/FILE: The European Parliament awards its top human rights prize to Cuban dissident Guillermo Farinas

Record ID: 1532810

  • Title: FRANCE/FILE: The European Parliament awards its top human rights prize to Cuban dissident Guillermo Farinas
  • Date: 22nd October 2010
  • Summary: SANTA CLARA, CUBA (FILE - JULY 08, 2010) (REUTERS) EXTERIOR OF FARINAS HOME FARINAS TOGETHER WITH HIS DAUGHTER, AFTER HAVING ABANDONED HIS HUNGER STRIKE FARINAS DAUGHTER LISTENING TO HER FATHER
  • Embargoed: 6th November 2010 15:56
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  • Topics: International Relations
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  • Story Text: The European Parliament awards its top human rights prize to Cuban dissident Guillermo Farinas.
    The European Parliament awarded its top human rights prize on Thursday (October 21) to Cuban dissident Guillermo Farinas, whose hunger strike this year helped pressure Havana into releasing political prisoners.
    Farinas, a psychologist, journalist and former soldier, has conducted more than 20 hunger strikes in the last two decades for various causes, including a campaign against Internet censorship.
    The European Union, along with the United States, has long pressed Havana to free political prisoners, improve human rights and move towards democracy.
    The prize, named after late Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov, was first awarded in 1988. Last year, it went to Memorial, a Russian group campaigning against abuses of power.
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