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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8359

12 December 2002
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/sakharov prize
Baron calls on Turkey to authorise Leyla Zana to take part in ceremony on 17 December, and on Aznar in Cuba to authorise the dissident, Oswaldo Payà, to go to Strasbourg

Brussels, 11/12/2002 (Agence Europe) - On 17 December, the European Parliament will be celebrating, in Strasbourg, the 15th anniversary of the Sakharov Prize for freedom of spirit, to which all prizewinners are invited. Leyla Zana, a Kurd from Turkey, is one of the prizewinners who have not yet received their prize. She was awarded the prize in 1995 but was unable to go to Strasbourg to receive it, being condemned to fifteen years imprisonment. The president of the Socialist Group, Enrique...

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