Oswaldo Payá

✶February 29, 1952

†July 22, 2012

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About their life

Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas was a Cuban opposition leader. A devout Catholic, he founded the Christian Liberation Movement in 1987 to oppose the one-party rule of the Cuban Communist Party. He attracted international attention 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 European Parliament's Sakharov Prize and People in Need's Homo Homini Award.

Cuban activist (1952-2012)

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Biography from the article Oswaldo Payá on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.