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An empty chair draped in a Cuban flag Wednesday represented Farinas, who was barred from leaving Cuba to accept the award in Strasbourg,mercurial vapor, France.
The EU announced that the 48-year-old Farinas was chosen as this year's winner of the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in October. The EU said Farinas has spent years in confinement and gone on hunger strikes 23 times as a non-violent means of fighting oppression in Cuba.
On Monday,polo ralph lauren, European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek voiced regret that Farinas had not been given permission to leave the island even though Buzek said he had personally appealed to Cuban President Raul Castro in a letter.
In a recorded message to the European Parliament,polo ralph lauren pas cher, the psychologist and independent journalist called for the release of political prisoners in Cuba as well as an end to anti-opposition attacks. He also called for the creation of trade unions in the communist-led country.
Buzek said he expects the European Union's foreign policy chief,cheap franklin marshall, Catherine Ashton,polo ralph lauren pas cher, to take this issue into account in future relations with Cuba. The human rights group, Amnesty International, also has criticized Cuba's government for refusing to allow Farinas to leave the country to accept the award. Amnesty described the restriction against Farinas as “an unnecessary punishment” for carrying out his legitimate right to freedom of expression.
Cuban dissident Guillermo Farinas has been awarded the European Parliament's Sakharov human rights prize in absentia.
The prize is named for the late Soviet nuclear scientists and dissident Andrei Sakharov.
Farinas is the third winner from Cuba to receive the Sakharov Prize, which comes with a $70,ralph lauren pas cher,000 cash award. The prize was awarded to political activist Oswaldo Paya in 2002. In 2005,chaussure louboutin, it went to the Ladies in White,polo ralph lauren shirts, a group of Cuban women who carry out peaceful protests in support of jailed dissidents.
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