Cuban dissident Guillermo Fariñas, this year's winner of the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, had to be represented by an empty chair at the prize award ceremony on Wednesday as he did not receive permission to leave his country and travel to Strasbourg to receive the prize.
Kubas disidents Guillermo Fariñas, kuram šogad piešķirta Saharova balva par domas brīvību, šodien nepiedalījās balvas pasniegšanas ceremonijā Strasbūrā, jo nesaņēma atļauju izbraukt no valsts.