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2007-11-06 / PABLO BACHELET - Miami Herald

Cuban dissident Biscet receives presidential medal

WASHINGTON --

Calling him ''a great man with a mighty heart,'' President Bush on Monday bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom on one of Cuba's most prominent dissidents, Oscar Elías Biscet.

The 46-year-old Biscet, who according to his family is in poor health because of tough prison conditions, is serving a 25-year jail sentence since December of 2002. The medal was accepted by Biscet's stepson, Yan Valdés Morejón, who lives in Miami.

Biscet, one of Fidel Castro's most ardent opponents, has been arrested dozens of times as he organized a string of public protests against the communist system between 1997 and 1999. ....more

2013-04-22 / The Miami Herald

U.S.: Short-term detentions in Cuba reach record levels

Cuba saw a record number of “politically motivated and at times violent short-term detentions” during 2012, according to the U.S. State Department’s “Country Reports on Human Rights Practices,” which was released Friday...more

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/04/19/3354333/us-short-term-detentions-in-cuba.html#storylink=cpy

2013-04-18 / The Washington Post

Cuba’s Ladies in White due in Brussels to receive 2005 Sakharov human rights award

Members of Cuba’s Ladies in White opposition group will finally pick up Europe’s top human rights prize from 2005 in person next week in Belgium, the European Union and the daughter of the group’s former leader said Wednesday...more

2013-04-16 / The Washington Post

Cuba avoids oil cutoff for now as Chavez ally narrowly wins Venezuela presidential election

Cubans were relieved Monday by the announcement that the late leader Hugo Chavez’s hand-picked successor had been elected Venezuela’s new president, apparently allowing their country to dodge a threatened cutoff of billions of dollars in subsidized oil...more

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