Oscar Elías Biscet - Fascist

[naaman fletcher]

In August 1999, Biscet, along with two dozen other dissidents, were detained by Cuban police for organizing meetings in Havana and Matanzas. He was released five days earlier on August 17, 1999.<5> He claimed that while in custody, the police tortured him by beating, kicking, stripping, and burning him. The government then threatened to detain him longer if he continued promoting his counterrevolutionary activities in Cuba. Later in 1999, he was sent back in prison for a three-year sentence for dishonoring a national symbol, public disorder, and instigating to commit crime, after having protested Cuba's lack of freedom by showing the Cuban flag upside down.<6> He was released from a high-security prison in the Holguín province after having served his entire three-year sentence behind bars.<7>

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One month after recovering his liberty,<6> on December 6, 2002, Biscet was arrested in a private house with 11 other dissidents while discussing a petition drive and human rights.<8> Dr. Biscet's wife later said the activists "were beaten and violently arrested". During their removal from the house they shouted "Long live human rights" and "Freedom for political prisoners".

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Another fascist. Of course, Cuba is not a dictatorship, there is freedom of the press, and there are no political prisoners, as I have learned here in the LatAm forum on DU.

[Mika]

1. Cubanet "reports" again?

Some people say its true. :dunce:

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