sentences:  Roca also criticized the EU's 2008 lifting of sanctions against Cuba, accusing leaders of pushing the measure through against the popular will.In May 2005, Roca and Roque organized a meeting of 200 dissidents which, unusually, was not interrupted by police.Roque described it as "the first such gathering in Fidel Castro's 46 years of communist rule" and "a point of departure" for further discussion.