Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet

next time someone starts rhapsodizing about the Cuban paradise,
just say one name: Oscar Elias Biscet. he is by far not alone as a
political prisoner in Cuba, but he is probably amongst the best known.

this is a replica of the cell he is kept in:



his crime?

he first criticized the Cuban death penalty and "abortion" techniques (including final trimester live births which are treated as abortions with the infant smothered shortly thereafter). In 1997, he began the Lawton Foundation for Human Rights, which seeks "to establish in Cuba a state based on the rule of law" and "sustained upon the Universal Declaration of Human Rights."

In 1999, he was given a three-year sentence for "disrespecting patriotic symbols." To protest the regime's repression, he had hung a Cuban flag upside down. He was then sentenced to 25 years on April 7, 2003, in a massive crackdown on human rights activists across the island.

Human rights group Amnesty International and other organizations consider Dr. Biscet, a prisoner of conscience.

So, again, I ask, what is his crime?

I guess his crime is to have been born a free man in King Castro's Cuba.

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