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The Freedom Collection includes important documents and artifacts from major freedom movements, which will be displayed for public viewing at the George W. Bush Presidential Center and made available to researchers and scholars studying these movements. For information about the documentary archive, please contact us.
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“House church” Christians – those who worship in private homes because their churches are not recognized by the government – are often imprisoned for their unauthorized...Read More +
Oscar Elias Biscet is a physician and a prominent advocate for human rights and democracy in Cuba. Dr. Biscet was among 75 dissidents arrested during the Black Spring crackdown in 2003. In a...Read More +
In January 2009 President Bush received this poem written by Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet, then perhaps Cuba’s best-known prisoner of conscience. The poem was written on a handkerchief and...Read More +
In 1977, a group of Czechoslovak dissidents drafted and published the Charter 77 manifesto, which called on the communist government to respect human rights. Charter 77 was inspired in part by the...Read More +
In 2007, President Bush awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet for his dedicated work advocating for human rights, freedom, and democracy in Cuba. At the time, Dr....Read More +
