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EU rights prize for Cuban dissident Farinas (AP)

FILE - Cuban dissident Guillermo Farinas speaks on the phone during an interview with The Associated Press at his home in Santa Clara, Cuba, Friday, March 5, 2010. The European Parliament announced Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010, it has awarded its annual human rights prize to the Cuban dissident. The 48-year-old psychologist and freelance journalist spent three weeks in the hospital this year after a 134-day hunger strike to force the government to release opposition leaders jailed in 2003. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes, File)AP - The European Parliament awarded its annual human rights prize on Thursday to Guillermo Farinas, the Cuban dissident whose 134-day hunger strike helped draw attention to the plight of political dissidents jailed in a 2003 crackdown on dissent.


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