Voices continue to join the campaign for the Cuban authorities to give proof of the life of the political prisoner José Daniel Ferrer. the young Amelia Calzadillathe mother from Havana who has become one of the symbols of discontent in Cuba, demanded this Thursday that the right that the relatives of the opponent can “see him and verify that he is fine even if he is detained” be respected.
In a message transmitted through his account FacebookCalzadilla questioned the isolation to which Ferrer, leader of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (Unpacu) is subjected, and sent a few words to his wife, Nelva Ismarays Ortega Tamayo: “From here, I am very sorry that I cannot do more than this, but my empathy total with you, my solidarity with you”.
The Cuban regime remains inflexible with the Ferrer family, who for more than three months has not been allowed to visit his wife in the maximum security prison of Mar Verde, in Santiago de Cuba, where he is imprisoned. After several failed attempts to see him, Ortega has repeated his call to the international community and to “good-hearted” people to speak out against human rights violations on the island.
In recent weeks, the campaign for a “life faith of Ferrer” has gained strength, to which activists, dissidents and Ladies in White have joined. Through social networks, several of them have published photos or videos in which they demand that the opponent be able to receive visits from his relatives and resume the regulatory calls from prison.
No family member has had direct contact with the opponent since March 14. Since then, the political leader has been held incommunicado under “forced disappearance” and deprived of the right to have a legal defense. “The last time that his children, Fátima Victoria and our little Daniel José, just three years old, were able to share with their father was on March 7, one day after the tyranny gave him the last right to the last phone call,” his wife said.
This Thursday, Nelva Ismarays Ortega Tamayo announced that she was going to the prison after having access to “a note supposedly handwritten” by Ferrer in which she asked for broad-spectrum antibiotics and various types of analgesics. Which “confirms how poorly he is in health, in what deplorable conditions he is in,” said the wife.
He also recounted that this Thursday the repressor who calls himself Major Julio Fonseca visited the Unpacu headquarters in Santiago de Cuba, who warned him that he should go to the prison before three in the afternoon. At the time of publishing this note, there was no news of Tamayo after he was admitted to the prison.
Ferrer is one of the more than 700 political prisoners that the Cuban regime has kept in its jails since the massive protests of July 11, 2021, to which dozens of detainees have been added in the demonstrations in recent months. During these almost two years, his family has denounced on several occasions that the inmate has been the victim of torture, beatings and threats.
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