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Cuba’s leading dissident, Oscar Elias Biscet, said he “was shaking with happiness” as he learned Thursday that rock star and social activist Bono had sung his praises during a jam-packed U2 concert in Miami. The 73,000-strong audience at the Sun Life stadium roared with delight Wednesday when Bono urged support for the 49-year-old Biscet and declared that “some day soon Cuba will be free.” “As you read me what he said, I was shaking with happiness because it showed it’s good when one is chosen as a symbol of his people,” Biscet told El Nuevo Herald, which first told him...

"This is the beginning of a new day! In my household [Fidel] is known as the ultimate survivor." Fidel himself, in a letter in the state-run Granma newspaper, saluted "this legislative group. The aura of Martin Luther King is accompanying them." To others of us who honor King, there is a barely surviving black Cuban disciple of King (and Mohandas Gandhi) whom the caucus visitors did not meet because he has been in a Castro brothers' cage for many years and was off-limits to them. He is Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet, and he is among those designated by Amnesty International...

December marks the 60th anniversary of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Crafted in the aftermath of World War II, the document (the world's most translated) represented the first global expression of rights to which all human beings are inherently entitled. The Declaration's anniversary comes at a propitious time. January 1, 2009 marks the 50th anniversary of what Cubans call "La Revolución," which culminated in the overthrow of the regime of Fulgencio Batista by Marxist guerrillas led by Fidel Castro. The near concurrence of these historic anniversaries provides an opportunity to consider how far the Cuban government has...

Dr. Biscet who is in Castro's gulag in Cuba is going to get the Presidential Medal of Freedom in absentia on Nov. 5th. Moderator: I did not know where to post this - is it OK?

Dr. Elias Biscet on hunger strike. Prisoner of conscience Dr. Elias Biscet once again on hunger strike to protest gravely inhumane conditions and treatment: Encuentro en la red, October 21, 2004 Toward the end of September, the mother of the political prisoner sent letters to Fidel Castro, Felipe Perez Roque and Ricardo Alarcon, but she has not received a reply. Cuban political prisoner, Oscar Elias Biscet has initiated a fast in order to call attention to “the abuses that he and two colleagues are being subjected to” in jail, his family reported. They asked for help from the international community...

Treatment of Oscar Elias Biscet and Other Cuban Political Prisoners Press Statement Richard Boucher, Spokesman Washington, DC July 21, 2004 http://www.free-biscet.org/biscetarticles/2004/press_statement_richard_boucher.htm

The following is an editorial reflecting the views of the United States Government:Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet, one of Cuba’s most prominent jailed dissidents, is reportedly being starved by the regime of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Dr. Biscet’s wife, Elsa Morejón Hernández, has released a letter from her husband which was smuggled out of Kilo Eight prison. The letter alleges that prison officials have denied Dr. Biscet food since mid-June. Ms. Morejon Hernandez says the withholding of food started after Dr. Biscet joined other prisoners in an act of civil disobedience. They shouted, "Down with the Castro-Communist dictatorship." Dr. Biscet is...

In Cuba's Gulag OUR OPINION: FREE DR. BISCET AND OTHER POLITICAL PRISONERS Cuban dissident Oscar Elías Biscet's offense was to openly advocate for human rights in Cuba. For that he is serving a 25-year prison term in sub-human conditions. The real crime here is how Cuba's dictatorship is torturing Dr. Biscet for his nonviolent opposition to its barbaric regime. ''Oscar has lost nearly 40 pounds, he is extremely pale and lacking in appetite . . . I didn't recognize my husband after not having seen him in four months,'' Elsa Morejón told El Nuevo Herald writer Wilfredo Cancio by phone...

U.S. Notes Anniversary of Cuban Dissident's Arrest Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet was first victim of recent Cuban crackdown The United States is noting the one-year anniversary of the arrest of Cuban dissident Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet, says State Department deputy spokesman Adam Ereli. In a December 5 statement, Ereli noted that Biscet and nine other members of his opposition group were arrested on December 6, 2002, for attempting to organize an event in Cuba to commemorate Human Rights Day. Ereli indicated that Biscet was the first victim in the March 2003 crackdown on dissidents by the regime of Cuban dictator...

CUBAN PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE, DR. OSCAR E. BISCET IS TRANSFERRED TO ANOTHER MAXIMUM SECURITY PRISON AND PUNISHED IN A "DUNGEON" WITH A DANGEROUS CRIMINAL November 19, 2003 Cuban prisoner of conscience, Dr. Oscar E. Biscet Gonzalez, serving a 25 year prison sentence, was transferred on November 12, 2003 from Kilo Cinco y Medio Prison to another maximum security prison in the province of Pinar del Rio called Kilo 8, where he is confined in a punishment cell he referred to as a "dungeon", with a prisoner who has committed 12 criminal assaults. On November 11th, at Prison Kilo Cinco y...

My name is Elsa Morejon Hernandez. I’m a Christian woman who defends human rights in Cuba. My wish is that this letter serves as testimony to the world concerning the injustices and psychological terror presently suffered by those of us who struggle peacefully in our country for the freedom of all Cubans. My husband, Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet González, president of the Lawton Foundation for Human Rights, is a pro-democracy activist presently incarcerated and accused of committing crimes against Cuban State Security. He has been subjected to the physical and psychological mistreatment suffered by all those who oppose the present...

Just an observation of many years fighting communists on the internet. I have several websites, as you might know, that deal with Cuba, conservative issues, and anti communism - what else is there in life? Just kidding. But I have noticed one thing from the feedback I get from folks reading my sites. Libs, Leftists and commies are e-mail cowards. While I get great positive feedback from conservative pro American folk - from all over - who say hello and leave e-mail addresses - the libs and communists always send short insulting attacks - cursing and name calling saying we...

Ex-prisoner calls for probe of Cuban prisons HAVANA, Cuba (AP) --One of Cuba's best-known political prisoners, freed last week after almost three years behind bars, complained Wednesday about his treatment and called for an investigation of Cuban prison conditions. Oscar Elias Biscet complained that he had to sleep for more than a year on a makeshift hammock-type bed and was given small rations of food, showing reporters a tray with what he said was a normal lunch -- the size of an airplane meal. "I ask international human rights organizations to supervise Cuban prisons," Biscet said at his first news...

Dear friends: Go to www.biscet.org and send a welcome back letter to Dr. Biscet in Cuba. It's very simple to do. It will make him very happy to hear from all those friends and supporters who never forgot him and who stood by him during his jailing by the Cuban dictatorship. Send a message to the Cuban dictatorship telling them that dissidence in Cuba will not die, and that democracy and justice will prevail! A letter form has been set up on www.biscet.org You simply go to the page, write your note and a letter will be generated. The letters...

One of Cuba's most prominent political prisoners, Dr. Oscar Biscet, has been released from prison after nearly three years.