‘Ladies in white’ in rare win for Cuban dissidents

“It is rare that Cuba’s repressed and fractured dissident movement celebrates a common victory, but that was the case last week when word spread that a group of political prisoners’ wives and mothers were to share the European parliament’s top human rights award with a Nigerian human rights lawyer and a French organisation dedicated to defending journalists.

About 30 members of Cuba’s “damas de blanco” - “ladies in white” - gathered to celebrate at the home of Laura Pollan, wife of Hector Maceda, the opposition journalist who in 2003 was sentenced to 20 years in jail. The crackdown that year on the opposition left 75 behind bars - charged with working for the US to undermine President Fidel Castro’s one-party socialist system - and increased tension between Havana and Brussels.”

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