HAVANA, February 10 (Oswaldo de Céspedes, CPI) - The State is asking for a ten year jail sentence for Dr. Oscar Elías Biscet González, according to the indictment recently handed down by the prosecutor in the case.

The prosecutor seeks to join the two cases against Biscet, cases 18 and 19 of (year) 2000. The first case is for "disorderly conduct in public," the second for "incitation to delinquency," "disorderly conduct in public" and "insult to the national symbols."

Biscet, a physician, has been in jail since November 3. At that time, he was arrested after staging a demonstration outside a Havana hospital where he had previously worked. Biscet's demonstration was non-violent and involved exposing home-made signs against abortion and the death penalty.

Even before the November incidents, Biscet had obviously become a special case for the government. In 1999 alone he was arrested or detained over twelve times, sometimes for days or even hours.

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