Rebel “Oscar Elias Biscet” has freed by the Cuba

The Cuban authorities have released an imprisoned rebel, who asked that he will not deport to Spain on the condition of release.

Oscar Elias Biscet, 49, was one of 75 foes of the government punished to a longer jail terms since 2003.

He told to the EFE news agency that he will continue his peaceful struggle and fight for the human rights on the communist based island. He also said that he was happy to leave the jail with a good mental and physical condition.

He told the reporters in Havana, the Cuban authorities did not make me mentally upset, as they were expecting to do.

He is one of the groups of at least 50 rebels whose liberty was made possible by the involvement of Catholic Church in Cuba through discussion. Most of the released rebels were agreed to go into deport in Spain, but Mr. Biscet refused to go into exile in Spain and said that I have always lived in Cuba and I am from Cuba.

He told the reporters at his home that he never closed the fighting efforts and he had never got lost from the way of peaceful resistance, not even in jail.

Mr. Biscet was punished about to 25 years in jail on the allegations of working with the United States to weaken the Cuban government.

He was awarded America’s higher civilian honor, the US Presidential Medal of Freedom, by George W Bush, when he was serving jail punishment.

Mr. Biscet’s arrest had been made during 2003 raid on political rivals of the government in which about 75 rebels were locked up. 

Three of them remain in under arrest i.e. Jose Daniel Ferrer, Librado Linares and Felix Navarro.