The government of USA This Thursday he expressed his indignation at the complaints of the relatives of Jose Daniel Ferrerpolitical prisoner of the dictatorship of Miguel Diaz-Canel, who stated that the opponent was hospitalized after suffering a “brutal beating” in the prison of Green Seain eastern Cuba.
““We call on the Government of Cuba to allow immediate access to his family and release him, along with the nearly 1,000 political prisoners unjustly detained in Cuba.”Nichols wrote on his X account.
Relatives of the opponent explained to EFE that the attack was reported by other political prisoners.
Ferrer would have been transferred to Bonito Penitentiary Centerwhich has a better equipped medical center, after the Mar Verde infirmary could not adequately care for him.
He has been admitted to the hospital for three days Room A from the Bonito infirmary, although no details have been disclosed about his state of health, which was already deteriorating due to previous conditions.
Meanwhile, the group Miami Cuban Democratic Directory (USA) this Thursday demanded proof of life from the Cuban regime for José Daniel Ferrer, after learning that the dissident was “brutally beaten” and rushed to a hospital.
“We demand proof of life of José Daniel Ferrer, his freedom, as well as freedom for all political prisoners in Cuba“adds the statement from the Miami exile group.
Cuban civil society organizations and personalities asked last August that the political and prisoner of conscience José Daniel Ferrer García be proposed to the Sakharov Prizegranted by the European Parliament.
As reported then in a statement the Cuban Observatory of Human Rightsbased in Madrid, the petition is signed by a “coalition of human rights organizations” with the aim of achieving the “protection and safeguarding” of Ferrer, whose physical and psychological integrity is at “extreme risk.”
He July 11, 2021Ferrer and his son Daniel Ferrer Cantillo were arrested for participating in popular protests against Castroism, according to the observatory’s statement.
Ferrer, who was under house arrest, was transferred to the Mar Verde prison to serve the remainder of the four-year sentence to which he was sentenced for corruption in 2019.
Since then, he has been subject to “mistreatment and violations” of UN recommendations on the treatment of prisoners. In December 2022, he began a hunger strike in prison.
For its part, the NGO Amnesty International (AI) declared four Cubans prisoners of conscience: the opposition Felix Navarrothe journalist and the lady in white Sayli Navarrothe protester of July 11, 2021 (11J) Roberto Perez Fonseca and the activist Luis Robles.
AI demanded in a statement his “immediate and unconditional release”, as well as that of all people “unjustly imprisoned solely for exercising their human rights” in Cuba and denounced the “context of systematic violations of human rights” and the “repression” and “criminalization of any form of dissidence” on the island.
The director of the Americas of AI, Ana Piquer, assured that these appointments are a “recognition” of the “courage and resistance of the people who in Cuba overcome permanent and generalized repression and fight” for human rights.
“It is imperative that the international community show its solidarity and demand the immediate release of those imprisoned for exercising their rights.”said Piquer.
(With information from EFE)
