The news is encouraging, Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet, who was serving an unjust sentence of 25 years in prison in Havana, was released today . Here the information:
Cuba's government released on Friday the doctor Oscar Elias Biscet , who rejected exile in Spain and is the flagship of the 52 opponents he promised release in an unprecedented dialogue with the Catholic Church confirmed the opposition itself AFP.
" I'm fine, very happy about this reunion with the family. I will not say that I will continue in opposition or in prison because I stopped keeping a rebellious attitude against the government and abuse committing''he said by telephone Biscet, 45, who was serving a sentence of 25.
Photo right Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet and his wife before his last arrest and imprisonment for 7 years.
So keep fighting because they are respected in Cuba, human rights, freedom press, speech ''added the doctor, who was born Combinado del Este prison in Havana, to his home in the neighborhood of Lawton-center-three members of the political police, he told.
Biscet is the leader of the Lawton Foundation , an illegal Human Rights opposes abortion. He was imprisoned from 1999 to October 2002, but a month after leaving prison was arrested and later tried in 2003 in the group of 75 dissidents sentenced this year to between 6 and 28 years in prison.
The opposition was chosen in 2007 for "Presidential Medal freedom''by then U.S. President, George W. Bush, who received in January 2008 at the White House with his wife, Elsa Morejon nurse. In 2009, Biscet was nominated for the Prince of Asturias Award for Concord (Spain).
Following dialogue initiated in May 2010 with the Church, the government of Raul Castro in July began a gradual process of release of 52 imprisoned dissidents were 75 detainees in 2003, prisoners of conscience by Amnesty International.
Of the 52, 40, traveled to Spain with their families and twelve not agreed to leave that country, of which nine-to-Biscet already been released and are in Cuba and three await their release.
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