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Wed Dec-14-05 06:35 PM
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Cubans barred from traveling to accept EU prize

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HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters) -- The Cuban government is not allowing members of Cuba's "Ladies in White" opposition movement to travel to Strasbourg, France, to receive the EU's top human rights prize, the women said Tuesday.

For two years, the women dressed in white have marched in silence every Sunday along a Havana avenue to demand the release of their husbands and sons who are political dissidents jailed by President Fidel Castro's government...

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/12/13/cuba.eu.reut/

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