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Dissident released: As part of an attempt to win trade concessions from Europe, Cuba this week released prominent dissident Óscar Elías Biscet, a doctor and human-rights activist arrested with 74 others in 2002 and accused of being in the pay of the U.S. Most of that “Group of 75” have since been released into exile, but Biscet has consistently refused to leave Cuba. “The Cuban authorities couldn’t make me mentally ill like they wanted to,” Biscet said. “I’ve followed the teachings of Gandhi and Martin Luther King and applied them in prison.” President George W. Bush awarded Biscet the Presidential Medal of Freedom in absentia in 2007.

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