More on Biscet

From the Miami Herald:

Biscet's outspoken ways and his multiple trips to jail have made the Afro-Cuban physician one of the most prominent opponents of the island's communist government. He started protesting as a recent medical graduate in 1986, when he denounced the long hours doctors had to work without pay, and in one stretch between June 1998 and November 1999 was arrested 26 times.

According to his wife, Elsa Morejón, Biscet is being held in the maximum security Combinado del Este prison in Havana. He is confined to a cell with no mattress, no light or chair and family visits are allowed once every three months.

Biscet suffers from high blood pressure, joint pain and failing eyesight, she has said.

In a phone conversation from Havana, Morejón thanked Bush for the award and called it ``a recognition of our political prisoners.''

''It is important that in this world someone remembers us,'' she said.

H/T to Lori and TheRealCuba.com

Posted by Henry Louis Gomez at October 30, 2007 06:33 PM