Dr. Biscet says, "I have not given up my struggle for the liberty of Cuba" "Convinced of my husband's innocence and of all activists presently incarcerated, I urgently ask dignitaries of democratic nations, human rights organizations, religious, civic and political leaders, the international press and all men and women of good will in the world to demand before the Cuban regime the unconditional and immediate freedom of Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet and all those prisoners whose only crime is to honor the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in their own country." "All of the dictatorships are the same, to characterize that some are worse than others is a mistake," he said. "If we are going to justify the dictatorship because of all the schools and hospitals Castro built, then we have to justify Hitler, Stalin and Pinochet because they also built schools and hospitals. How do you justify that when a Cuban finds anything that can float, they will leave Cuba?" Excerpt of speech at Duke University April, 2000 by Armando Valladares, former Cuban political prisoner..

Biscet for Cuban President blog March 27, 2007, Why not? After decades of one party rule in Cuba - with a created Stalinist dynasty (ala North Korea) for the Castro family, isn't it time that a real Cuban - an Afro Cuban, be the first democratically elected president of Cuba? Why not? The MSM brags that it's time for a female president in the White House, well, we say it's time for a change in Cuba - let's work for democratic multi-party elections in Cuba - nominate and help Dr. Biscet become Cuba's next real president! Please visit the blog and lend them your support!

Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet for President of Cuba 2008 From the blog Uncommon Sense, March 27, 2007, "Cuba does have someone like Mandela, with the vision to lead a nation and a personal story in which Cubans, and the friends of Cuban freedom overseas, can place their faith...Reportedly, there are "elections" scheduled in Cuba next year; Castro, according to his flunkies, is recovering so well from his illness that he is likely to run for "re-election." There may be no better challenger than Oscar Elias Biscet. An online campaign to help get elected has begun..."

Cuba's National Assembly "President" Ricardo Alarcon says, Castro is in fact preparing for a comeback. This week Alarcon said to foreign correspondents in Havana that Castro would be in "great shape" to run for president of the Council of State, his official title. "I'd nominate him," Alarcon said after a National Assembly session. Biscet for President of Cuba - letter to Miami Herald From: conductor@babalublog.com Subject: Fidel's Re-election, we have an opponent. Date: March 27, 2007 2:03:57 PM EDT To: frobles@MiamiHerald.com

Dr. Elias Biscet – Doctor in Cuba - Appeal from The International Society for Human Rights http://www.ishr.org/index.php?id=812 March 23 2007, Frankfurt am Main, Germany "Dr. Elias Biscet’s (born 1962) “crime” was among others to document the government’s abortion methods and to publish the book “Rivanol: A method to destroy life” in April 1998. In this book he accuses the health authorities of numerous forced abortions."

Dr. Biscet featured at Human Rights Exhibition "Fields of Shame" March 23, 2007 International Society for Human Rights http://www.ishr.org/index.php?id=843 "Among the most prominent prisoners that are portrayed in the exhibition is the Cuban Doctor Oscar Elias Biscet. The non-violent, committed Christian was sentenced to 25 years of prison for founding a human rights organisation that demands civil rights and the end of Fidel Castro’s 26-year autarchy. Even though he was threatened and tortured in prison, the Christian civil rights activist’s spirit is not broken."

From Human Rights First: Send a letter to Raul Castro, re: Four Years Since Cuba Crackdown: Release Activists Still in Prison - Dr. Biscet included in list http://action.humanrightsfirst.org/campaign/CubaFourYears?qp_source=ga%5fadv It has been four years since 75 peaceful human rights activists and independent journalists were rounded up by Cuban authorities, summarily and unfairly tried, and sentenced to prison terms of up to 28 years.

On Fourth Anniversary of Clampdown, Rights Group Calls for Release of Prisoners - Dr. Biscet included in list March 19, 2007 Human Rights First http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/media/hrd/2007/alert/319/

Family of Prisoner of Conscience, Dr. Oscar E. Biscet Gonzalez, Make An Urgent Appeal For His Life March, 3, 2007 Elsa Morejón, Licensed Registered Nurse and wife of Dr. Oscar Elías Biscet González, president of the Lawton Foundation for Human Rights and prisoner of conscience. “THE CUBAN GOVERNMENT HAS TORTURED ME DURING EIGHT YEARS…TRYING TO DRIVE ME INSANE…” Late September, 2006, testimony of prisoner of conscience, Dr. Oscar Elías Biscet, from the Prison of Combinado del Este in Havana, Cuba

Cuban dissident calls for “civil disobedience” until government signs human rights treaties By Catholic News Agency Havana, Aug. 25, 2006 (CNA) - Jailed Cuban dissident leader Oscar Elias Biscet has sent a letter to all Cubans urging them to continue to pray and fast until the government signs the international human rights treaties that have been established by the United Nations.

Civil Disobedience By Doctor Oscar Elias Biscet Havana, Cuba, Aug 25, 2006 The latest from Dr. Biscet from his prison cell in Cuba. Thank you for www.Babalublog.com and Val, and Robert M who posted and translated the story into English.

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The Orange Revolution's Message By Nat Hentoff, Village Voice, December 30th, 2005 You can help free a Cuban prisoner of conscience from a windowless underground cell... Viktor Yushchenko, president of Ukraine: "I will never forget the Cuban political prisoners." Photo: David Bohrer/whitehouse.gov

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Letter Urging the Release of Dr. Biscet By www.Babalublog.com, Dec. 11, 2005 "Our friend Songuacassal at Cuban American Pundits has an action letter he wants us to send regarding the plight of Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet. Here is the text of the letter, that can be edited, that will be sent". Here is the rest from Babalu: http://www.babalublog.com/archives/002656.html

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Castro's Black Prisoner By Nat Hentoff, Liberty Beat, The Village Voice, June 9th, 2005  "A follower of Martin Luther King and Gandhi in Fidel's custody for 22 more years." Why Congressman Charles Rangel doesn't care?

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Latest word on Biscet May 22, 2005 STATEMENTS MADE IN AN INTERVIEW GIVEN TO INDEPENDENT JOURNALISTANGEL PABLO POLANCO ON SUNDAY, MAY 22, 2005,  FROM DR. OSCAR ELIAS BISCET GONAZLEZ, PRESIDENT OF THE LAWTON FOUNDATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS, ABOUT THE GENERAL MEETING OF THE ASSEMBLY TO PROMOTE A CIVIL SOCIETY  IN CUBA:

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Overcoming Castro's `Culture of Fear' By Mary Anastasia O'Grady The Wall Street Journal, May 6, 2005 A prominent symbol of dissident stamina is Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet. The 43-year-old renowned pacifist, whose motto is "life and freedom," is a devout Christian and follower of Martin Luther King, Gandhi and the Dalai Lama.

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Video of dr. Biscet's wife Elsa Morejón describing Biscet's jail cell
http://www.babalublog.com/archives/elsa_morejon%5B1%5D.wmv
From: www.babalublog.com

Human Rights and Cuba
By Fausta, The Bad Hair Blog
April 22, 2005, http://badhairblog.blogspot.com/

The future of Cuban - American relations
By Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Published April 26, 2005, The Washington Times

"The World’s Leading Dissident"
By Aaron Goldstein
(01/24/05) American Daily
"I have no doubt that Bush had Sharansky in mind when he said, “Democratic reformers facing repression, prison, or exile can know:..” I’m also sure that he was thinking about Daw Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma...I’m also sure that he was thinking about Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet of Cuba who is currently serving 25 years in a Havana prison for flying the Cuban flag upside down.
The Sharanskys, the Suu Kyis, the Biscets may live continents apart but all of them seek liberty. President Bush’s challenge to America and to the world is to speak on behalf of those who cannot now speak for themselves."

Oscar Elias Biscet Initiates a Fast in Protest of his Situation
Encuentro en la red, Oct. 21, 2004
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 “to save his life.”

Ex-Spanish Prime Minister Demands Release Cuban Prisoners
September 18, 2004 UTC

CUBAN POLITICAL PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE, DR. OSCAR ELIAS BISCET CONTINUES CONFINED IN CRITICAL CONDITIONS Havana, Cuba. September 8, 2004. I have not committed an act of indiscipline but have only requested security measures for my personal wellbeing due to the difficulties within the prison compound. No prisoner should be penalized for this but, if authorities are following high governmental orders, then I will carry out with dignity this unjust punishment. My conscience and my spirit are well. Dr. Biscet Cell # 5, Kilo 8 Prison

U.S. diplomat builds backyard Cuban prison cell Cuba blasts move, aimed at highlighting human rights abuses The Associated Press Sept. 10, 2004 Treatment of Oscar Elias Biscet and Other Cuban Political Prisoners Press Statement Richard Boucher, Spokesman Washington, DC July 21, 2004

Dr. Biscet is being starved the Castro regime
7/18/04 - FREE CUBA’S POLITICAL PRISONERS
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."

Cuba's most Prominent Christian Prisoner May Die of Starvation, Family says
By Stefan J. Bos, International Correspondent, BosNewsLife July 8, 2004

URGENT PETITION FROM DR. OSCAR ELÍAS BISCET,
PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE IN CUBA
June 2004
 A letter released in Havana, Cuba on June 23rd, by Elsa Morejón Hernández, wife of prisoner of conscience, Dr. Oscar Elías Biscet, denounces the critical situation this Cuban physician is facing at Prison Kilo 8 in the province of Pinar del Rio, 162 km. away from his home where he is serving a 25 year sentence after being sanctioned ( Case # 15 of the year 2003) for committing crimes “against the sovereignty and the integrity of the Cuban territory.”

CUBAN  PRISONER OF  CONSCIENCE  DR. OSCAR E. BISCET AND  HIS  FAMILY  ARE  BEING  ISOLATED,  AND  SUBJECTED TO MISTREATMENT  BY  THE GOVERNMENT IN THE ISLAND
Cuba, June 7, 2004.

Oscar Elías Biscet accused of insulting Fidel Castro  Jan 26, 2004 HAVANA,  (www.cubanet.org) - The wife of dissident Oscar Elías Biscet González says her husband, currently serving a 25-year prison sentence, has been accused of insulting Fidel Castro. Picture to your left: Biscet studies in happier times.

The Hellfire Club Jan 26, 2004 Exclusive commentary by Martin Kelly. From The Washington Dispatch "Right now, Castro, once portrayed as a comic opera brigand, is holding a real dissident and activist, Dr. Oscar Biscet, in conditions more suited to the days of Devil’s Island, for daring to have the courage to be a seeker of liberty." Free Cuba's unjustly convicted activists Jan. 24, 2004 Posted on Sat,  in The Miami Herald. "Dr. Oscar Elías Biscet, who has worked tirelessly to express his commitment to the use of nonviolence to achieve change, was arrested in December 2002 for ..."

Viva Biscet! A true revolutionary Jan 22, 2004 By Peter Kirsanow. National Review Online In contrast, only a handful of Americans have ever heard of Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet. Like Che, Biscet is a physician. He's at least as photogenic. And his life story is arguably more compelling and inarguably more honorable. But don't expect posters of Biscet to grace campus bookstores. There probably won't be any movies about him, and definitely none attended by the glitterati. No college symposia will be dedicated to Biscet's political philosophy.

Prisoners in Cuba tell of misery Jan 22, 2004 Chicago Tribune HAVANA, Cuba - Imprisoned last spring for opposing Cuba's one-party state, Oscar Biscet has spent the first nine months of his 25-year sentence in solitary confinement or with hardened criminals, enduring insufficient food and unsanitary conditions, according to his wife and letters smuggled out of prison.

In Cuba's Gulag
Jan. 07, 2004 in The Miami Herald.
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.

IN DANGER LIFE OF INCARCERATED CUBAN PHYSICIAN DR. OSCAR E. BISCET
Confined in a "dungeon" since November 2003
January 3, 2004
"My husband is unrecognizable since I last saw him four months ago; he is so thin, pale and ill looking", declared Elsa Morejon, wife of the Cuban civic leader, Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet Gonzalez, " these punishments are destroying him and if he continues where he is he will die.

Write to Fidel Castro himself.  His address and contact points are:
Su Excelencia
Dr. Fidel Castro Ruz
Presidente de los Consejos de Estado y de Ministros
La Habana, Cuba                                                                                            

CUBAN PHYSICIAN CONDEMNED TO 25 YEARS IN PRISON FOR DEFENDING HUMAN RIGHTS, IS PUNISHED ONCE MORE IN A "DUNGEON"
His wife urgently requests international solidarity, alleging the objective of Cuban authorities is to destroy him physically and psychologically
December 15, 2003

U.S. Notes Anniversary of Cuban Dissident's Arrest
Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet was first victim of recent Cuban crackdown
12-5-03. 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.

Medical students praise imprisoned Doctor Biscet on Medicine Day in Cuba
Dec. 4, 2003 HAVANA, , Cubanet

Message to the People of Cuba and the International Community
12-5-03. Dr. Biscet's latest letter to the world. Written from his prison cell.

URGENT! 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.

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL  PRESS RELEASE AI INDEX: AMR 25/018/2003 
http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAMR250182003
June 3, 2003 Cuba: Escalation of repression must be halted

FOR  IMMEDIATE  DISTRIBUTION HUMAN  RIGHTS  VIOLATION IN CUBA
DR. BISCET SPEAKS FROM A CUBAN PRISON
June 1, 2003

Cuba’s Heroic Heretics
May 28, 2003
By Myles Kantor

"Three Little Blacks"
May 27, 2003
By Agustin Blazquez and Jaums Sutton

INCARCERATED PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE,  DR. OSCAR E.  BISCET,  PUNISHED IN ISOLATION CELL
May 5, 2003
On Friday, May 2, Elsa Morejon Hernandez, wife of Dr. Oscar E. Biscet, traveled to the Provincial Prison in Pinar del Rio province called Kilo Cinco y Medio where her husband was transferred on April 24,2003. Unable to see him she was informed by the director of the prison of her husband's critical situation. Dr. Biscet, founder of the Lawton Foundation for Human Rights, was being applied the strictest prison code regulations because he refused to wear the common prisoners' uniform.

Well-known Cuban dissident jailed
BBC News
4-10-03
Oscar Elias Biscet, one of Cuba's best-known dissidents, was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Thursday as part of a widespread crackdown by the Cuban Government.

Elsa Morejon, wife of a Cuban dissident Oscar Elias Biscet, speaks to a reporter April 10, 2003 after she was notified that her husband was sentenced to 25 years in prison. The sentencing of one of Cuba's best known dissidents came as the last sentences were handed out for 75 dissidents swept up in an unprecedented political crackdown by the Communist government. (Rafael Perez/Reuters)

Christian Solidarity Worldwide Biscet Report 4-9-03 You can read a full profile and receive campaign information on http://www.csw.org.uk/biscet.asp

Elsa Morejon, wife of dissident Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet, shows a copy of her husband's sentencing document, outside the Old Havana courthouse on Thursday April 10, 2003, in Havana, Cuba. Biscet was among 75 dissidents tried in a massive crackdown on Cuba's opposition. He received a 25-year term. (AP Photo/Cristobal Herrera)

Stifling Dissent in Havana (Even the liberal New York Times speaks!) New York Times, April 9, 2003 "Mr. Castro apparently feels the need to keep alive Cuba's Orwellian sense of siege and isolation to justify his rule, and he is now victimizing principled democratic activists to serve his purpose."

Heavy prison sentences/ Cuba -- a giant step backwards for human rights  Apr 8, 2003. http://www.amnesty.org

http://www.phrusa.org/campaigns/colleagues/cuba_op-ed.html "Cuba's jailing of dissident doctors is not new. Among the most prominent Cuban political prisoners is Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet, a physician who served three years in detention for expressing his political beliefs only to be released and promptly detained again, this time for attempting to organize a human rights workshop. He is currently held at Combinado del Este prison. For the past three years Physicians for Human Rights has campaigned for the release of  Dr. Biscet through our "Colleague at Risk" program and will now ratchet up its efforts once more until he is freed." Statement by Susannah Sirkin, Deputy Director, Physicians for Human Rights"

Human rights dissident Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet shows a burn mark on his right arm in this Aug. 17, 1999 file photo, in Havana, that he says was caused by a cigar a police officer pressed against his skin. Biscet was one of the first dissidents tried in a massive crackdown on Cuba's opposition Monday, April 7, 2003. (AP Photo/Jose Goitia)

http://www.hrw.org/press/2003/04/cuba040703.htm (New York, April 7, 2003) The heavy sentences imposed against non-violent Cuban dissidents are unjustified and draconian, Human Rights Watch said today. Defendants received sentences ranging from twelve to twenty-five years of imprisonment.

FROM  CUBA, AN  URGENT  APPEAL  TO  THE  WORLD
Dr. Biscet's wife speaks from Cuba! PRESS RELEASE, April 6, 2003

A Cuban state security officer uses a chain to prevent dissident suppporters, including Claudia Marquez, center, opposition member Osvaldo Alfonso's wife, from entering the court building in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, April 3, 2003. Cuba pressed forward with its harshest crackdown on dissent in years, holding the first trials Thursday for dissidents rounded up across the island. At least 78 dissidents have been arrested since March 18, accused of working with U.S. diplomats to subvert Fidel Castro government and of being mercenaries in the pay of Washington.

An unidentified Cuban dissident is brought to court in a military police car Thursday, April 3, 2003, in Havana, Cuba. Statement by Cuban dissidents Publish in PRIMA News, Moscow, April 4, 2003.

Robert Menard, head of the Reporters Without Borders media advocacy group, leaves the Cuban Tourism Office after it was visited by human rights activists in Paris Friday April 4, 2003. Human rights activists stuck a banner 'Cuba equals Prison' in protest of the arrest of at least 24 independent journalists last month in Cuba. Portraits of arrested journalists are seen in the window. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)

First group of Cuban dissidents tried in crackdown sentenced to up to 27 years
ANITA SNOW, Associated Press Writer, Monday, April 7, 2003
 "Among those being tried in Havana on Monday was Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet, a dissident physician jailed since December after his arrest during a protest in nearby Matanzas Province. Prosecutors are seeking a 25-year sentence. He already served three years for displaying national flags upside down in an act of civil disobedience. The crackdown on dissidents has been condemned by international human rights groups and press organizations."

"We have also learnt about a sudden search at the house of the wife of Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet, a dissident arrested several months ago, and about the transfer of this peaceful opposition activist to the headquarters of the State Security Department. It is also known that his case was incorporated with the cases against the 78 dissidents arrested in Cuba in the past few weeks...We also want to highlight an unprecedented fact that the Cuban authorities are trying to link Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet to episodes which took place when he was in prison."

HUMAN RIGHTS FOR PHYSICIANS IN CUBA Op-Ed Submission to The Boston Globe By Susannah Sirkin, April 1, 2003 Deputy Director, Physicians for Human Rights

Political prisoner Biscet transferred; home searched
HAVANA, March 29 (Fara Armenteros, UPECI)

Dissident Cuban economist Martha Beatriz Roque was arrested March 20, 2003, in a crackdown on opponents of Cuba's communist government. Rights groups said at least 55 dissidents have been arrested in three days, their houses searched and faxes, typewriters and computers confiscated. Roque is shown March 18 during a liquids only fast to demand the release of political prisoners. REUTERS/Rafael Perez

Cuban crackdown riles dissidents
By Tom Carter, THE WASHINGTON TIMES, Published March 21, 2003

Campaign to release Dr. Biscet! PRIMA News Agency, 2-4-03 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.

Biscet awarded democracy prize
PRIMA News Agency, 2-4-03
Dr. Biscet to be awarded prize by The International Republican Institute in Washington D.C.
Check out their Cuba fact page.

Update: Dr. Biscet Transferred to Maximum Security Prison
February 3, 2003: PHR regrets to report that Dr. Oscar E. Biscet was arrested along with sixteen fellow activists around 6:00 in the afternoon of Friday, December 6 when the police prevented the group from meeting at a house in the neighborhood of Lawton in Havana. According to the Coalition of Cuban-American Women, Elsa Morejan, Dr. Biscet's wife, had first detailed 11 other activists were with her husband but later she had found out there were actually more.

Write letters to Cuban regime on behalf of Dr. Biscet

Campaign Sheet for Dr Oscar Biscet
From the Christian Solidarity Worldwide website at:
http://www.csw.org.uk/index.asp

Jailed Cuban dissident invited to international conference
PRIMA News Agency, 1-7-03

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.

INHUMANE SITUATION OF EX-PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE IN CUBA, DR. OSCAR E. BISCET, DEMANDS INTERNATIONAL ATTENTION
December 22, 2002

Christmas Behind Bars By Myles Kantor FrontPageMagazine.com | December 20, 2002 "My friend Oscar should be preparing to celebrate Christmas with his family, but right now he’s in jail. On Monday, December 2, I had the opportunity to speak with Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet, who was a prisoner of conscience in Cuba from November 3, 1999 until this October 31.

Marta Beatriz Roque prepares to speak to reporters during an event she hosted in her home in celebration of international Human Rights Day in Havana, Cuba on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2002. About 50 Cuban dissidents met at Roque's home in what was called an 'alternative parliament.' (AP Photo/Cristobal Herrera)

HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST REARRESTED IN CUBA AFTER PEACEFUL PROTEST CHRISTIAN SOLIDARITY WORLDWIDE www.csw.org.uk For immediate release, December 9 2002 Dr. Biscet Arrested: Will the NAACP Speak Out? By Myles Kantor Monday, December. 9, 2002

World Medical Association Human Rights Unit Biscet Report, 12-9-02
Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet Gonzalez
Dr. Biscet arrested
Human Rights activist rearrested in Cuba after peaceful protest

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Cuban Dissident Jailed Again
By Jim Burns, CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer, December 09, 2002

IN  CUBA  DR.  OSCAR E. BISCET  ARRESTED ALONG WITH  A  GROUP OF  PEACEFUL  HUMAN  RIGHTS  ACTIVISTS 
PHONED IN STATEMENT BY BISCET'S WIFE. DECEMBER 8, 2002
Dr. Oscar E. Biscet, leader in the peaceful human rights movement in Cuba and ex-prisoner of conscience was arrested along with eleven fellow activists around 6:00 in the afternoon of Friday, December 6 when the police prevented the group from meeting at a house in the neighborhood of Lawton in Havana.

Cuban Dissident Biscet Arrested Again-Wife
Sat Dec 7, 1:53 PM ET
HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban dissident physician Oscar Elias Biscet, set free a month ago after serving a three-year jail term, was arrested again for organizing a human rights discussion group, his wife said on Saturday

Family reports human-rights activist detained in Cuba
(AP) HAVANA - A Cuban dissident who had been freed from prison in October was detained again after police blocked a meeting of a human rights club, his wife said Saturday.

Cuba: Heavy Sentences Are "Totally Unjustified" Human Rights Watch Calls on U.N. to Condemn Crackdown HRW Documents on Cuba