Jailed Cuban dissident invited to international conference 
 
Oscar Elias Biscet Gonzalez 
Havana, CUBA. The World Movement for Democracy invited Dr. Oscar Elias
Biscet to participate in its Third Assembly to be held in South Africa
in April of this year.

42-year-old Oscar Elias Biscet Gonzales, president of the Lawton Human
Rights Foundation (Lawton Foundacion), was arrested on December 6 last
year at a human rights seminar when he was going to address members of
a Club of Friends of Human Rights who came from Matanzas province to
Havana. After the arrest he was transferred to Combinado del Este, a
maximum security prison in Havana.
On October 30 last year Biscet was released from prison after having
served three years for dissident activity.
The World Movement for Democracy is an international coalition of
human rights organization that was founded a few years ago.

PRIMA News Agency[2003-01-07-Cuba-20