150px|Óscar Elías Biscet The Cuban government released one of the country's leading dissidents, . from prison on Friday, under an agreement attained through talks supported by Spain and reached last July between Cuba's president  and Cuba's to free 52 political prisoners. Biscet, 49, was sentenced to a 25-year prison term in 2003 for "acts against the sovereignty and independence of the national territory". A follower of the peacefully resistant philosophies of and , Biscet's nonviolent fight for human rights and his persistent opposition to the Cuban government have won him worldwide prominence. He has worked to oppose  and the and campaigned to free Cuban political prisoners. In 2007  bestowed upon him the , American's highest civilian honor, in recognition of his work.
150px|Óscar Elías Biscet The Cuban government released one of the country's leading dissidents, . from prison on Friday, under an agreement attained through talks supported by Spain and reached last July between Cuba's president Raul Castro and Cuba's to free 52 political prisoners. Biscet, 49, was sentenced to a 25-year prison term in 2003 for "acts against the sovereignty and independence of the national territory". A follower of the peacefully resistant philosophies of and , Biscet's nonviolent fight for human rights and his persistent opposition to the Cuban government have won him worldwide prominence. He has worked to oppose abortion and the death penalty and campaigned to free Cuban political prisoners. In 2007 President George W. Bush bestowed upon him the , American's highest civilian honor, in recognition of his work.
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Raul Castro
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abortion and the death penalty
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the and
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President George W. Bush