Campaign to release Dr. Biscet
 
Oscar Elias Biscet Gonzalez
Havana, CUBA. Dissidents both in Cuba and exile will join efforts to
launch an international campaign for the immediate and unconditional
release of civic disobedience activist Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet, held in
the Combinado del Este prison near Havana. The campaign starts on
February 6.

40-year-old Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet was arrested on December 6, 2002
while trying to hold a seminar on the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights. Seventeen other people were arrested together with him. Of
them, three also remain under arrest. He was arrested only 37 days
after being released from a first three-year sentence that he served
in the Cuba Si prison in Holguin province on a charge of "disrespect".
Martha Beatriz Roque Cabello, leader of the largest dissident alliance
in Cuba, the Assembly to Promote the Civil Society in Cuba, said they
would try to mobilize national and international public opinion by
distributing a thoroughly documented file on Biscet's case, including
his diploma as a medical doctor. "His situation is urgent and he
deserves international solidarity," she underscored.
Dr. Biscet's wife, Elsa Morejon Hernandez, said her husband's lawyer
Sergio Hernandes Ramos visited his client last week but he has had no
access to the case file. The authorities, she added, were sending the
lawyer from one place to another without any result.


PRIMA News Agency[2003-02-04-Cuba-20]