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Ladies in White
Cuban opposition movement / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ladies in White (Spanish: Damas de Blanco) is an opposition movement in Cuba founded in 2003 by wives and other female relatives of jailed dissidents and those who have been made to disappear by the government. The women protest the imprisonments by attending Mass each Sunday wearing white dresses and then silently walking through the streets dressed in white clothing. The color white is chosen to symbolize peace.
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The movement received the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought from the European Parliament in 2005.