Tag: Laura Pollan

• Wednesday, April 24th 2013 - 06:14 UTC

  Eight years late Cuba’s Ladies in White collect the Sakharov Prize

  

  Members of the Cuban dissident group Ladies in White collected Tuesday the Sakharov Prize that the European Parliament awarded them in 2005, and in the process had harsh words to say about the situation in their homeland.

• Saturday, October 15th 2011 - 18:38 UTC

  Leading Cuban dissident and founder of Ladies in White dies

  

  Laura Pollán, one of the founders of the Cuban dissident group Ladies in White, has died in a Havana hospital at the age of 63, fellow dissidents on Friday.

• Monday, March 21st 2011 - 07:34 UTC

  Cuban Ladies in White harassed by pro-Castro hecklers

  

  Cuban government supporters harassed a group of dissidents who met at a home in Havana to commemorate the eighth anniversary of a sweeping crackdown on dissent.