Released Dissident Tells Castro to Resign

HAVANA TIMES, March 15 — Cuban dissident Oscar Elías Biscet demanded the resignation of President Raúl Castro with the aim of establishing a transition government, in his first press conference after being released last Friday. Biscet, who rejected travelling to Spain, also asked for the release of another three dissidents of the Group of 75 sentenced in 2003, reported IPS.

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