January 28, 2004
Biscet calls it like it is!
Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet, prisoner of conscience in one of Castro's gulags, has been accused of "insulting Fidel Castro."
HAVANA, Jan. 26 - 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.
According to Elsa Morejón Hernández, prison official Ramón Beune said Biscet joined other prisoners in shouting "Down with the Castro-Communist dictatorship" during a recent act of civil disobedience at the Kilo 8 prison in Pinar del Rio. He said charges were pending against Biscet, president of the Lawton Human Rights Foundation.
His wife said he continues to ref use to wear a prison uniform or to stand up when a count of prisoners is conducted.
Biscet was sentenced in April following the arrest of 75 dissidents accused of acts against the government. He was removed January 15 from two months of solitary confinement and taken to a cell he shares with 12 common criminals.
In Cuba, dating back to the Bay of Pigs, all political prisoners have been thrown in with common criminals. I believe it was the Brigade 2506 prisoners - those encarcerated after the failed invasion - that first refused to wear the prison uniform of the common prisoner. Thus, these men, in jail for their political and social beliefs, apart from being denigrated by having to share jail cells with the common prison population, have had the fortitude and dignity to serve their sentences naked.
(Story via Cubanet.)
Posted by Val Prieto at January 28, 2004 07:52 AM
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