I thank the freedom lovers who condemned my arrest, after releasing Bisket

“The political police arrested me this morning at 8:30 a.m. at Milagros and 8th Lawton, while I was on my way to the reservation for a meeting with other workers of the Emilia project. Today is the 11th anniversary of the project, we were going. Account of the work done during the year. Lo. They took me to the Santa Fe police station in police car number 091 and there they kept me in the office for 8 hours for questioning and I didn’t cooperate. They didn’t want to. Tell me the reason for my arrest, just that I knew. That “I was there so, they implied that I knew I was going to the meeting of the Emilia project. At 4:50 the political police put me in a police car and left me where I live with the intention of taking me away from the scene of activity,” Bisset expressed in a message to Diario Las Americas.

“I thank all freedom-loving people and the international community who showed solidarity and condemned my arbitrary arrest and demanded my freedom. This is yet another example of gross violation of human rights in the country. I am a defender of human rights. Rights and especially of expression Independence. We will continue the principles of the Emilia Project until the creation of a free Cuba,” he added.

“As far as we know, the other opponents of the Emilia project who were arrested today are still in prison,” he said.

Dr. Biscuit was stopped by a Cuban political police car leaving his home while trying to get to a meeting with other activists marking the eleventh anniversary of the project to outlaw the regime and all institutions of its power.

At the time of his arrest, Dr. Bisquet was trying to make his way to the Vedado area, where human rights activists had gathered to assess the most recent phase of work. The Emilia Project.

“Woke up to house surrounded by police,” Elsa Morejon, Dr. Bisquet’s wife said in a telephone conversation with Diario Las Americas.

“They (activists) were organizing a meeting. The conversations they have on the phone have definitely been intercepted (by the suppressors). I got up at about 5:00 in the morning and from home I saw that they had surrounded us and I warned him (Bisket), but he held his belief and left. From the portal I saw him walking away, but the moment I lost sight of him, they arrested him,” narrated Morejon, who asked to spread the complaint, “I don’t have a connection to Twitter (X) or Facebook. So,” he explained.

In the afternoon, Morejon reported that the regime had released Biscuit, who is at his home.

Anniversary of the Emilia Project

The human rights activist also explained that this January 9, while celebrating the anniversary of the Emilia project, Dr. Bisquet, who was sentenced to 25 years and served as a prisoner of conscience, in solitary confinement after his arrest in the repressive wave known as the Black Spring in 2003, would participate in a meeting in the Vedado neighborhood with other activists opposing the regime.

Morejon was informed that the area where the meeting was to take place had been cordoned off by members of the regime’s repressive forces to prevent anyone from entering.

“Certainly there should be more arrests,” he lamented.

Reactions after the arrest

Lawyer Marcel Felipe condemned what happened via video: “This morning, a patrol car marked with the number 91, in which four police officers, two in uniform and two unidentified, kidnapped Dr. Bisquet and took him to a so far unknown location.” .

As the founder of Inspira America said, Biscuit felt it was going to happen.

Antonio Ledezma, the former mayor of Caracas, sent his statement on video.

Congressman Carlos Gimenez He also criticized the arrest through his account on social network X. “The Castro regime in #Cuba has just kidnapped and arrested opposition leader Dr. Oscar Elias Bisquet. Dr. Bisquet has been nominated for a Nobel Prize and received the US Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007. We demand his immediate release! “wrote

Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart Dr. Joined Bisket’s demand for freedom.

For his part, the mayor of Miami Lakes, Manny CDshared some photos with Bisquet and criticized what happened this Tuesday: “Dr. Bisquet is an inspiration to all people in Cuba and around the world who seek freedom. Therefore, we demand his immediate release!”

Dr. Juan Luis Bravo Rodríguez by officers of Section 21 in Havana. Oscar Elias reported from Cuba regarding the arrest of Bisquet. Similarly, the house arrest of José Elias González Aguero was reported, who was informed of his intention not to leave his home and that no one would visit him due to the celebration of the 11th anniversary of the Emilia project.

Roger Pérez Torres, a resident of Bartolomé Masso municipality, reported a similar fate. All oppression and arrests are being made against the Union for Free Cuba Party and the managers of the Emilia Project, with the aim of preventing any kind of meeting as part of the celebration of the eleventh anniversary of this project.

Declaration of the Center for a Free Cuba

“The following message was sent to international human rights organizations, civil leaders and members of parliament. Cuban human rights defender and former political prisoner Oscar Elias Bisquet was detained by Cuban political police in Havana early this morning on the anniversary of the founding of the Emilia Project, her human rights organization.

Other members of the Emilia Project were also detained in a large police deployment. His whereabouts are unknown and the authorities are not honoring the writ of habeas corpus.

Several Cubans have died in police custody. Biskett is a doctor who has received the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom. He is a follower of the principles of civil disobedience of Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.

Cuba has more than a thousand political prisoners who are arbitrarily sentenced by kangaroo courts. Havana has denied visits to Cuban prisons by the International Committee of the Red Cross and access to the island to other human rights organizations such as Amnesty International.

The Center for a Free Cuba calls on the international community to demand their immediate release. The European Union should suspend its economic assistance treaty with Havana until Cuban political prisoners are freed. inside application Marching in several capitals, thousands demand that Cuba be withdrawn from the UN Human Rights Council.

Oscar Elias Bisquet under Extra-Penile Licence

Dr. Bisquet, following his release in 2011, has been held under a legal figure known as extra-penal license, following agreements reached between the Cuban regime and the Catholic Church, which means they are placed at the discretion of repressive forces. Whenever they decide they are arrested without warrant or any kind of charge against them.

Biscuit is a doctor by profession, whose definition as an opponent of the policies of the Cuban dictatorship gained such strength that his convictions as a man of Christianity and his profession as a doctor lead him to indiscriminately denounce the ways in which Cuba allows. The practice of abortion, even among young people and adolescents.

Dr. Bisquet, after his release from prison in 2011, received a sermon and remains under pressure to leave the country, but under his conviction, being deported is not an option, as he reiterated.

On the occasion of the ninth anniversary of the Emilia project, Oscar Elias Bisquet, a columnist for this newspaper, wrote in an article:

“The Emilia project is fully intertwined with the political and humanitarian views of the people. In Emilia, the regime and its administrative sources of power are declared illegitimate and illegitimate by the National Assembly of People’s Power, the government, the judicial system and the sole source of law, the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC). comes in. “That’s the feeling of all the Cuban people.”

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