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PRESS CONFERENCE; THE EUROPEAN UNION AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN CUBA
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Marco Pannella MEP
President of the Senate of the Transnational Radical Party
is delighted to invite you to a press conference on
PRESS CONFERENCE; THE EUROPEAN UNION AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN CUBA
European Parliament - PHS 0A50
Wednesday 3 May 2006
14:00-15:00
with
Sylvia G. Iriondo
President of "Mothers and Women Against Repression" (M.A.R. Por Cuba), organization devoted to the promotion and the defence of the Human Rights, in order to promote the democratic values and to raise awareness on Cuban issues
Angel De Fana
Former political prisoner imprisoned for 20 years and 7 months. Director of "Until Freedom and the Democracy in Cuba" (Hasta la Libertad y la Democracia en Cuba), organization founded by former Cuban political prisoners.
Manuel Vazquez Portal
Journalist, writer and poet. One of the 75 dissidents condemned in March 2003 to 20 years of prison.
Yolanda Huerga
Co-founder of the Damas de Blanco, Sakharov Price winner 2005.
Gonzalez Blanco,
Mother of the independent journalist Normando Hernandez Gonzalez, condemned in March 2003 to 25 years of prison.
Alina Garrido,
Director of "Mothers and Women Against Repression" (M.A.R. Por Cuba)
The press conference will be introduced by Mr. Nicola Dell'Arciprete representative of the Transnational Radical Party.
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Invited by the Transnational Radical Party, the Representatives of Mothers against Repression (M.A.R. Por Cuba), Plantados until Freedom and Democracy in Cuba and Cuban exile activists will travel to Brussels this Monday for meetings with members of the European Parliament to raise awareness of Cuba’s reality under the totalitarian regime that systematically violates the fundamental liberties and rights of the Cuban people.
The delegation will also carry out a Press Conference at the European Parliament on Wednesday, May 3rd at 2 PM, to raise awareness as to the critical situation and infrahuman conditions under which Cuban political prisoners are held in Castro’s prisons and the brutal repression of pro-democracy and human rights’ activists being unleashed by the regime in the island, including the most recent violent physical aggression perpetrated by Castro’s political police on April 25th, 2006 against Martha Beatriz Roque Cabello, one of the leaders of the Assembly to Promote Civil Society in Cuba.
For more information please contact Mr. Flavien Deltort at Marco Pannella's Office in Brussels: 0032 2 284 7 120 - mpannella@europarl.eu.int
President of the Senate of the Transnational Radical Party
is delighted to invite you to a press conference on
PRESS CONFERENCE; THE EUROPEAN UNION AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN CUBA
European Parliament - PHS 0A50
Wednesday 3 May 2006
14:00-15:00
with
Sylvia G. Iriondo
President of "Mothers and Women Against Repression" (M.A.R. Por Cuba), organization devoted to the promotion and the defence of the Human Rights, in order to promote the democratic values and to raise awareness on Cuban issues
Angel De Fana
Former political prisoner imprisoned for 20 years and 7 months. Director of "Until Freedom and the Democracy in Cuba" (Hasta la Libertad y la Democracia en Cuba), organization founded by former Cuban political prisoners.
Manuel Vazquez Portal
Journalist, writer and poet. One of the 75 dissidents condemned in March 2003 to 20 years of prison.
Yolanda Huerga
Co-founder of the Damas de Blanco, Sakharov Price winner 2005.
Gonzalez Blanco,
Mother of the independent journalist Normando Hernandez Gonzalez, condemned in March 2003 to 25 years of prison.
Alina Garrido,
Director of "Mothers and Women Against Repression" (M.A.R. Por Cuba)
The press conference will be introduced by Mr. Nicola Dell'Arciprete representative of the Transnational Radical Party.
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Invited by the Transnational Radical Party, the Representatives of Mothers against Repression (M.A.R. Por Cuba), Plantados until Freedom and Democracy in Cuba and Cuban exile activists will travel to Brussels this Monday for meetings with members of the European Parliament to raise awareness of Cuba’s reality under the totalitarian regime that systematically violates the fundamental liberties and rights of the Cuban people.
The delegation will also carry out a Press Conference at the European Parliament on Wednesday, May 3rd at 2 PM, to raise awareness as to the critical situation and infrahuman conditions under which Cuban political prisoners are held in Castro’s prisons and the brutal repression of pro-democracy and human rights’ activists being unleashed by the regime in the island, including the most recent violent physical aggression perpetrated by Castro’s political police on April 25th, 2006 against Martha Beatriz Roque Cabello, one of the leaders of the Assembly to Promote Civil Society in Cuba.
For more information please contact Mr. Flavien Deltort at Marco Pannella's Office in Brussels: 0032 2 284 7 120 - mpannella@europarl.eu.int
