Civic disobedience activist awarded

Havana, CUBA. The Washington-based International Republican Institute will award on February 5 the Democracy Prize to Cuban political prisoner Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet Gonzales.

Dr. Biscet will be represented at the award ceremony by Laida Carro. The International Republican Institute is a private charity organization set up in the United States in April 1983. Dr. Biscet was arrested on December 6, 2002 while trying to hold a seminar on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at a private house. He is being held in the Combinado del Este prison near Havana.

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