160:, where he fought under Colonel Antonio Enrique Luzon. As a special forces soldier in the Commandos for Demolition, Penetration, and Sabotage, he participated in eleven missions into the UNITA rearguard, for which he received military decorations. He received two bullet wounds. In 1981, Fariñas went to the U.S.S.R. to Tambov where he studied at the Airborne Academy but, due to official negligence, suffered exposure to a chemical nerve agent that damaged his health to the point that he had to be discharged from the army.
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various false crimes, including illegal possession of arms. State media, on the other hand, claim that he went to jail after physically attacking a woman, an official from the health institution where he worked as a psychologist. In 1997, he was condemned to a further 18 months of confinement, during which he undertook a strike on eating solid food. In 2002, he was attacked by a State
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Central Committee member, to the National Revolutionary Police Force, and as a result was accused of
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Radiografía de los miedos en Cuba: Autobiografía y otros textos
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777:"Police free Cubans detained at Oswaldo Paya's funeral"
731:. Amnesty International. 25 July 2012. Archived from
608:"Cuba dissident Farinas awarded Sakharov Prize by EU"
755:"US, Amnesty Critical of Cuban Dissident Detentions"
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442:"Cuba briefly holds top dissident"
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1302:Cuban human rights activists
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479:Fariñas, Guillermo (2010).
111:Guillermo Fariñas Hernández
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262:The Cuban state newspaper
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1034:Reporters Without Borders
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309:Juan Wilfredo Soto García
242:Cuban government response
224:Reporters Without Borders
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1347:Sakharov Prize laureates
1202:Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya
1178:/ Andrea González (2017)
779:. BBC News. 25 July 2012
507:Communist Party of Cuba
341:Patriotic Union of Cuba
1327:Cuban male journalists
682:www.europarl.europa.eu
270:U.S. Interests Section
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181:Young Communist League
117:. He has conducted 23
1332:Nonviolence advocates
1322:Cuban hunger strikers
858:at Wikimedia Commons
325:Amnesty International
236:Orlando Zapata Tamayo
185:Arnaldo Ochoa Sánchez
139:Guillermo Fariñas Key
1260:Woman, Life, Freedom
1222:Siarhei Tsikhanouski
1198:Coordination Council
137:. Fariñas's father,
133:Fariñas was born in
1317:Cuban psychologists
1206:Svetlana Alexievich
709:on January 25, 2013
279:2010 Sakharov Prize
216:Internet censorship
863:Biography by CIDOB
335:2016 hunger strike
303:2011 hunger strike
230:2010 hunger strike
210:2006 hunger strike
123:censorship in Cuba
1307:Cuban journalists
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856:Guillermo Fariñas
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988:¡Basta Ya!
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834:2019-09-25
809:2019-09-25
688:2019-09-25
517:2013-11-25
448:2019-09-25
355:References
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129:Early life
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