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An empty chair at the European Parliament in Strasbourg yesterday during a ceremony to award Cuban dissident Guillermo Farinas (background), in his absence, with the 2010 Sakharov human rights prize. Mr Farinas urged the EU to stand firm against Cuba’s...

An empty chair at the European Parliament in Strasbourg yesterday during a ceremony to award Cuban dissident Guillermo Farinas (background), in his absence, with the 2010 Sakharov human rights prize. Mr Farinas urged the EU to stand firm against Cuba’s “cruel” regime, which barred him from travelling to France to receive the prize.

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