Prominent Dissident Rearrested, Wife Says
From Times Wire Reports
Cuban dissident Oscar Elias Biscet, set free a month ago after serving a three-year jail term, was arrested again for organizing a human rights discussion group, his wife said.
Biscet and 11 others were arrested Friday when they tried to meet in a Havana suburb to discuss human rights in Communist-run Cuba, his wife, Elsa Morejon, said.
Biscet, a doctor, was imprisoned after he displayed a Cuban flag upside down at a Havana news conference in 1999 to criticize lack of freedom in Cuba and Fidel Castro’s government.
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