Jailed Dissident Gets 25 Additional Years
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From Times Wire Reports
Cuba condemned one of the communist island’s jailed dissidents, Oscar Elias Biscet, to 25 additional years in prison, as the last sentences were handed out for 75 dissidents swept up in a recent political crackdown.
Most were convicted of treason related to collaborating with the United States. Biscet, who has engaged in civil disobedience in the past, was already in jail on lesser charges, for opposing President Fidel Castro’s government when authorities began rounding up dissidents last month.
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