Ladies in White March for Dissidents’ Release
From Times Wire Reports
Thirty members of Ladies in White marched through the streets of Havana to demand the release of dissidents jailed three years ago by President Fidel Castro’s communist government.
The women, who dress in white and march in silence, are relatives of 75 dissidents jailed in a crackdown on opposition to Castro’s rule. Fifteen were freed last year on medical parole, but 60 are still behind bars.
Ladies in White last year won the Sakharov Prize, the European Parliament’s top human rights award.
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