| European Parliament asks Havana to authorize exit visas of Payá and the Ladies in White |
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The European parliamentarians call on the EU to support dissidents to “share their proposals” in the international media Jun.3.- The European Parliament again asked the Cuban regime this Thursday (May 29) to authorize dissident Oswaldo Payá and the Ladies in White to travel abroad to explain at the European Union the situation on the island, EFE reports.  In a report on the human rights situation in the world, the European parliamentarians introduced an amendment in which they reject “vigorously the systematic violence and the repeated acts of harassment” suffered by the Ladies in White, comprised of the women relatives of dissidents imprisoned in the Spring of 2003. The document calls on Havana to authorize the group, which received the Sakharov Prize from the European Parliament in 2005, to receive the award at one of the institution’s headquarters in Brussels or Strasbourg. Likewise, it reiterates its request for Oswaldo Payá, who received the same prize in 2002, to be able to receive the prize in one of the institution’s headquarters in Brussels or Strasbourg. |
