Cuban dictatorship arrests opposition leader and dissident Oscar Elías Biscet
One of Cuba’s most prominent dissidents was whisked away by two uniformed police officers as he stepped out of his house this morning. No word yet on his whereabouts. Stay tuned. In the meantime, don’t wait for the Marx Sisters or the BLM zealots to say anything about this arrest.
Loosely translated from Marti Noticias
Opposition leader and former Cuban political prisoner Dr. Oscar Elías Biscet was detained this Tuesday, January 9, by two uniformed police officers when he was leaving his home in Havana, on the eleventh anniversary of the Emilia project.
“They were after him when he left the house and they arrested him there,” said neighbors on Milagros and 8th Street, in Lawton, where Biscet resides, and his wife confirmed to Martí Noticias.
“We denounce this arbitrary arrest and demand his immediate release!” Congressman Carlos Gimenez said on social network X.
Exactly one year ago, on January 9, 2023, Dr. Biscet, host of Lawton Libre, a weekly radio program broadcast on Radio Martí and covering current affairs and human rights in the world and in Cuba, was arrested in a similar way. The United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM) and the Office of Cuban Broadcasting (OCB) condemned the arrest of the opponent.
Dr. Biscet remained imprisoned for almost a decade, after being sentenced to 25 years in prison. In 2003, he was declared a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International. The Cuban regime released him in 2011 due to international pressure.
Biscet, one of eight dissidents from the Group of 75 convicted during Cuba’s Black Spring who remain on the island, has resisted forced exile by authorities and continues to work on the Emilia Project, a grassroots campaign to educate Cubans about human rights,
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