Cuban dissidents

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. Chapters: Adolfo Fernández Sainz, Alejandro González Raga, Alfredo Domínguez Batista, Alfredo Felipe Fuentes, Angel Moya Acosta, Antonio Augusto Villareal Acosta, Antonio Díaz Sánchez, Arnaldo Ramos Lauzerique, Arturo Pérez de Alejo Rodríguez, Berta Soler, Blas Giraldo Reyes Rodríguez, Carmelo Díaz Fernández, Concilio Cubano, Darsi Ferrer Ramírez, Diosdado González Marrero, Eusebio Peñalver Mazorra, Felix Bonne, Félix Navarro Rodríguez, Fidel Suárez Cruz, Francisco Jose Hernandez, Frank Fernández (writer), Gorki Águila, Guillermo Fariñas, Héctor Maseda Gutiérrez, Hilda Molina, Jesús Escandell, Jorge Luis García Pérez, Jorge Luis González Tanquero, José Daniel Ferrer García, José Miguel Martínez Hernández, José Óscar Sánchez Madan, Juan Carlos González Leiva, Laura Pollán, Leonel Grave de Peralta, Luis Andres Vargas Gomez, Luis Enrique Ferrer García, Luis Milán Fernández, Manuel Vázquez Portal, Marcelo Cano Rodríguez, Marta Beatriz Roque, Mijail Bárzaga, Nelson Aguiar Ramírez, Nelson Moliné Espino, Néstor Rodríguez Lobaina, Omar Pernet Hernández, Omar Rodríguez Saludes, Omar Ruiz Hernández, Orlando Zapata, Oscar Espinosa Chepe, Oswaldo Payá, Pablo Pacheco Avila, Pedro Argüelles Morán, Pedro Luis Boitel, Plantado, Porno para Ricardo, Ramón Barquín, Raúl Rivero, Rene Gomez Manzano, Ricardo Enrique Silva, Roberto de Miranda, Rolando Rodríguez Lobaina, Sebastian Arcos Bergnes, Sergio Arcacha Smith, Varela Project, Víctor Rolando Arroyo Carmona, Vladimiro Roca, Wilmar Villar Mendoza, Yndamiro Restano Díaz. Excerpt: Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas (29 February 1952 - 22 July 2012) was a Cuban political activist. A Roman Catholic, he founded the Christian Liberation Movement in 1987 to oppose the one-party rule of the Cuban Communist Party. He became internationally known for organizing a petition drive known as the Varela Project, in which 25,000 signatories petitioned the Cuban government to guarantee freedom of speech and freedom of assembly as well as to institute a multi-party democracy. In recognition of his work, he received the 1999 Homo Homini Award of People in Need and the 2002 Sakharov Prize of the European Parliament. On 22 July 2012, he was killed in a car crash under controversial circumstances. The Cuban government stated that the driver had lost control of the vehicle and collided with a tree, while Payá's children asserted that the car had been deliberately run off of the road. On 30 July, the two survivors of the crash held a press conference to state that no other car had been involved. Oswaldo Payá was born on 29 February 1952 in Cerro, Havana. The fifth of seven children, he was brought up as a Roman Catholic and attended a Marist Brothers school in Havana. Payá was the only student at the school who refused to join the Communist League following the Communist takeover of the Cuban Revolution. The school was later closed. In 1969, he was sentenced to three years of hard labor on Isla de Pinos when he refused to transport political prisoners during his mandatory military service. While there, he discovered a locked Catholic church, Nuestra Señora de Dolores, that received permission from the Bishop of Havana to reopen as a mission, giving religious talks and caring for the sick. After his release, Payá enrolled in the University of Havana as a physics major, but was expelled when authorities discovered him to be a practicing Christian; he then attended night school and switched his major to telecommunica...