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Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya (R), shows his permission to exit from Cuba to the press at the Jose Marti airport in Havana, Cuba, 14 December 2002. Paya is traveling to Strasbourg, France, where he will receive 17 December European Parliament's annual Sakharov prize for freedom of expression for his work in defense of the human rights in Cuba. (KEYSTONE/EPA PHOTO/AFP/ADALBERTO ROQUE)