Elsa Morejón, the wife of Cuban political prisoner Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet, is pleading with authorities for her husband to be transferred from the Combinado del Este prison in Havana to a less severe facility. The horrible conditions at Combinado del Este, according to Morejón, have contributed to the deterioration of Biscet's health. You can read Morejón's appeal here.
The part of the statement I want to publish here comes from a letter Biscet wrote to his wife in January. In the letter, Biscet testifies that his commitment to a free Cuba has only strengthened while in prison:
It is very difficult for common prisoners to serve a prison sentence; all the more so for a man of peace confined for exercising his right to freedom of thought.Everything has been so excessive and arbitrary that, the tribunal that condemned me, did not pronounce sentence until three days after the trial had concluded. At that moment I felt their disloyalty to justice. I am convinced today of the fear they felt when they convicted an innocent man and put him to live with the scum of society.
During all these years in prison I have witnessed ignominious things that I cannot go into the details of due to their perversity; acts that threaten the decorous behavior of a civilized society. In spite of the difficult situation, I am not frightened nor will I go back a step in regards to my ideas.
I am here by my own free will to condemn and not to retract myself and will serve this unjust sentence until God in the Highest puts an end to it.
Biscet, a physician and human rights activist, arrested in December 2002, and the following April, during the "black spring" crackdown, was sentenced to 25 years in prison. Read more about him here.
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