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Guillermo Fariñas

Cuban dissident · Cuba · On the map · Journalists · Born 1962 · age 64

Guillermo Fariñas Hernández is a Cuban doctor of psychology, independent journalist and political dissident in Cuba. He has conducted 23 hunger strikes over the years to protest various elements of the Cuban government and spent more than 11 years in prison.

Guillermo Fariñas is read about 16 times a day, in 24 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 10 November 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 144 days, one point a day.

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Awards

Giuseppe Motta Medal2013
Sakharov Prize2010

About this person

He vowed that he would die in the struggle against censorship in Cuba.

Country
Cuba
Category
Journalists
Type
Journalist
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1962 · age 64