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FROM
CUBA
Dr. Oscar Elías Biscet's health is deteriorating
YAGUAJAY, Cuba, April 19 (José
Luis Vivanco Solano / Villa Blanca Press
/ www.cubanet.org) - Dr. Oscar Elías
Biscet González, incarcerated in
Combinado del Este Prison in Havana, is
showing a very noticeable deterioration
in his health, according to a telephone
conversation from his wife, Elsa Morejón,
to Villa Blanca Press. Biscet suffers from
various chronic illnesses.
"Oscar," Mrs. Morejón
reports, "is kept in a humid cell without
light. He does not receive adequate food
either." There is also concern for
the lack of attention to the administration
of his medicines as well as for the consequences
he suffers from refusing to wear the uniform
of a common prisoner.
Biscet has been confined in maximum security
for several years. Before his imprisonment,
he was president of the Lawton Foundation
of Human Rights. In the spring of 2003,
he was sentenced to 25 years in jail.
This information was transmitted by
telephone since the Cuban government controls
access to the Internet.
Translation: Coalition
of Cuban-American Women-Human Rights Committee/
Tanya Wilder / tswilder@charter.net
Versión
original en español
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