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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10278

16 December 2010
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/sakharov prize
Empty chair for Cuban winner Guillermo Farinas

Strasbourg, 15/12/2010 (Agence Europe) - Before an empty chair draped with the Cuban flag, the president of the European Parliament, Jerzy Buzek of Poland, awarded the Sakharov Prize to the journalist and defender of public freedoms in Cuba, Guillermo Farinas, at the plenary session in Strasbourg on Wednesday 15 December. Despite calls by Buzek, Havana did not permit Farinas to travel to receive in person the prize he was awarded last October, after a hunger strike of 135 days to call for...

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