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U.S.
Journalist Will Fast to Protest Cuban
Disident Imprisonment
FrontPageMagazine.com
columnist and WWFE-670 AM (Miami) talk show
host Myles Kantor will begin a 24-day fast
on November 3rd. in Boynton Beach to protest
"Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet's unjust
imprisonment in Cuba," one of the seven
regimes classified by the U.S. State
Department as a sponsor of terrorism.
November 3
marks the second year that Dr. Biscet, the
Afro-Cuban president of the Lawton
Foundation for Human Rights, has been a
prisoner of conscience. Amnesty
International describes Dr. Biscet as a
prisoner of conscience.
The 24-day
fast corresponds to the 24 months Dr. Biscet
has been imprisoned for human rights
advocacy in the non-violent tradition of
Martin Luther King, Jr. and Natan Sharansky.
Dr. Biscet
was arrested on November 3, 1999 and
convicted in a closed trial on February 25,
2000 of insult to the symbols of the
homeland, public disorder, and instigation
to commit a crime. In Cuba, inverting a flag
to symbolize distress and calling for
liberalization are crimes.
"Fidel
Castro's sponsorship of terrorism abroad
mirrors the systematic terror he perpetrates
against the Cuban people, manifest in laws
against disrespect, enemy propaganda,
illicit association, and illegal exit. Dr.
Biscet has been ripped from his wife and
children because he yearns for Cuba's
emancipation from this terrorism,"
according to a press release from Puente
Informativo, a Cuban American group.
Kantor calls
upon Castro to renounce "the
enslavement of Dr. Biscet and his
countrymen, to renounce terrorism against
the Cuban people, and to renounce complicity
with terrorist regimes," according to
the release.
Kantor is
available for comment at
editor@FreeEmigration.com.
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