Zitat von don olafio

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Denn der gute Don Olafio "leugnete" mitnichten den Umstand, dass Oscar Biscet Gonzalez auf Kuba zu 25 jahren Haft verurteilt wurde. Auch stellte er mit keinem Komma in Abrede, dass diese Verurteilung mit politischen, bzw. politisch motivierten Handlungen in Zusammenhang steht.
Er versuchte lediglich darauf hinzuweisen, dass der Eindruck, den das Posting von dirk_71 vermittelt (nämlich dass OBG die 25 Jahre wg. des Demonstrierens vor laufender Kamera erhalten hätte), ein offenkundig falscher ist - übrigens ohne ihm (dirk_71) zu unterstellen, diesen Eindruck vorsätzlich hergestellt zu haben.

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Zitat von don olafio

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Und da entsteht bei einem solch unbedarften Menschen wie mir geradezu zwangsläufig er Eindruck, er könnte wg. des Demonstrierens zu 25 Jahren verurteilt worden sein.

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On December 6, 2002, in Havana, when he was preparing to meet with human rights activists from Matanzas as part of the “Club for Friends of Human Rights,” the Cuban Secret Police detained him along with many of the activists. The group staged an act of nonviolent civil disobedience by laying down in front of the home and saying: “Long live human rights” and “freedom for political prisoners.” On this occasion, the peaceful protestors were arrested and taken to the Tenth Unit of the National Revolutionary Police (Décima Unidad de la PNR) on Acosta Avenue. During this prison period, he was placed for 19 days in a calabozo (punishment cell.)

After several months in prison and having been transferred from Villa Marista to Combinado del Este Prison, on April 2003, Dr. Biscet was charged in a summary judgment with violation of Article 91 of the Cuban Penal Code which refers to crimes against state security.
http://www.lawtonfoundation.com/index-2.html

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Oscar Elías Biscet González, 41 years old, president of the unofficial Fundación Lawton de Derechos Humanos, Lawton Human Rights Foundation(1) and anti-abortion activist, has been detained over two dozen times in the past. In one instance, he was arrested on 3 November 1999 and served a three year sentence, charged with ‘insult to the symbols of the homeland,’ ‘ultraje a los símbolos de la patria,’ ‘public disorder,’ \'desorden público,\' and ‘incitement to commit an offence’, ‘instigación a delinquir.’ During his imprisonment he was considered by Amnesty International to be a prisoner of conscience.(2) He was released on 31 October 2002 from a maximum security prison in Holguín province, and reportedly gave a press conference denouncing prison conditions a short time afterwards.

On 6 December 2002 Oscar Biscet was re-detained with 16 other dissidents after they attempted to meet at a home in Havana to discuss human rights.(3) When police prevented them from entering the home, Oscar Biscet and the others reportedly sat down in the street in protest and uttered slogans such as "long live human rights" and "freedom for political prisoners." The group was then arrested, though most of them were released shortly afterwards.

In spite of the fact that he was already in detention during the crackdown, Oscar Biscet was tried together with a number of dissidents who were arrested in March. He was sentenced under article 91(4) of the Penal Code to 25 years in prison. Although he lives and was tried in Havana, he is currently imprisoned in Kilo 5 1/2 prison in Pinar del Río province
http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/...50452003en.html

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ARTICLE 91. The person who, in the interest of a foreign State, commits an act with the intent to cause damage to the independence of the Cuban State or the integrity of its territory, shall be punished with 10 to 20 years in prison or death

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Hier noch etwas zu dem Fall von Human Rights First

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Protest Worsening Prison Conditions For Ill Cuban Activist

Alert Issued: December 7, 2005
Dr. Oscar Elías Biscet is seriously ill and suffering from chronic gastritis and hypertension. The conditions in which he is serving his 25 year prison term - imposed after an unfair trial in 2003 for his non-violent advocacy of human rights - are deteriorating.
Prison officials recently informed his family members that they are punishing him for his peaceful protest of prison conditions and threatened that those conditions could get worse.
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Although he was already in detention during the March 2003 crackdown, Dr. Biscet was tried and sentenced along with several of those arrested in March. The 41-year-old Dr. Biscet was sentenced to 25 years in prison for his promotion of human rights. Committed to non-violent civil disobedience as a means of protesting injustice, Dr. Biscet has refused to wear the uniform of a common prisoner. In reprisal, Cuban prison officials have confined this peaceful activist to inhumane punishment cells, often in solitary confinement or with violent criminals. For lengthy periods of time, he has been denied family visits, correspondence, the right to leave his cell, and packages of medicine, food and clothing.
http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/defender...0705_biscet.htm

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