Havana/Cuban opponent José Daniel Ferrer, released on January 16 after spending three and a half years in prison, has refused to appear before an execution judge in Santiago de Cuba on Tuesday, after receiving the notification yesterday. “You don’t have to be a fortune teller to know that these are threats that I am going to prison again if I do not stop my political and social activism in favor of freedom,” the also leader of the Patriotic Union of Cuba said in an audio (UNPACU ), whose headquarters, their home, two police officers arrived to deliver the summons.
Ferrer soon publishing the role in social networks Next to a text that said: “I am not anywhere. If the intention is to threaten me to return to prison, they waste their time. ” Shortly after he abounded in his decision in an audio message that reached 14ymedio: “Those threats are saved. I am not going to attend in front of any execution judge, I have never committed any crime and how many times they have imprisoned me is to defend human rights. ”
The opponent added: “If they will return to prison, to those clubs of evil and terror, where political prisoners die, where common prisoners die, where the situation that the criminal population in general is very similar to that of a field of a field of concentration, they must keep in mind that for the well -being and freedom of my nation I am willing not only to go to prison, but also to give life. ”
The citation to go to Justice has not reached only the door of the UNPACU. “Today all the political prisoners released from Villa Clara were summoned for the courts of the respective municipalities where they reside, to begin with harassment, blackmail and repression,” denounced In X the journalist and former political prisoner Carlos Michael Morales.
With the UNPACU leader, the Council for the Democratic Transition in Cuba was also sympathized, of which he is also president
With the leader of the UNPACU, the Council for the Democratic Transition in Cuba was also sympathized, of which he is also president, by publishing a social networks a video in which the opponent Manuel Cuesta Morúa warned of harassment by the regime to Ferrer. “You want to commit an injustice with a person who had to be released, not only released,” he said.
The publication Ferrer on social networks was also shared by the Office of Affairs of the Western Hemisphere of the United States, who denounced that “the Cuban dictatorship attacks again and chasing the brave prodemocratic leader” after “the regime made a deal with the Catholic Church to ‘free’ political prisoners. ”
“We will not be fooled by their games or participate in them. The illegitimate regime is directly responsible for its treatment towards Ferrer and towards all political prisoners that continues to retain unfairly, ”added the office in its publication, which was replicated shortly after by the Washington Embassy on the island.
Precisely, Mike Hammer, the new Business Manager of the White House in Havana, has held in recent days some meetings with relatives of Cuban political prisoners and activists, such as the academic Alina Barbara López.
Annia Zamora, the mother of Sissi Abascal, dam to demonstrate during the protests of July 11, 2021, also received the representative in her home. In conversation with 14ymedioZamora says Hammer’s visit was “very pleasant.” “Everything flowed very well. He has a lot of interest in knowing the situation of our prisoners and my daughter. The family is very grateful for their concern, interest and visiting us, ”he said.
He also explains that the meeting helped Abascal’s family to feel that they are not alone and that there are “people fighting for our prisoners.”
Since the prison authorities communicated this to Abascal, last week, his mother has not known more news
Both Sissi Abascal and his prison partner Sayli Navarro, just like she lady from Blanco and daughter of the opponent Félix Navarro, were two of the names that were expected within the list of release of the regime. Far from that, the regime has been taught with them, forcing them to remain in a “severe regime” and even denying them criminal benefits to those who are entitled to consider them “negative dams.”
Since the prison authorities communicated this to Abascal, last week, his mother has not known more news. “From Sissi since Thursday I don’t know anything. On Monday he touched him called but there was a blackout and it was impossible for him to communicate with us,” says Zamora, who clarifies that “Sissi denied the 120 days of reduction [de la pena] That they do every year. They told him that in 2024 he did not have a single day of reduction, it was zero. ”
On Navarro, the woman explains that her step was denied to a minor severity regime for another six months, when she will be evaluated again. “Sissi had already denied it in September,” he adds. In a previous interview with this newspaper, Zamora explained that it is the fourth time that the criminal authorities reject the passage to a less severe regime. “The situation of my daughter and all political prisoners is worrying. The repression is very strong against them, ”he lamented then.
According to Zamora, the conditions in which both opponents are in the La Bellotex prison, in Matanzas, continue to get worse. “In prison they are putting water only at night, the food is little and poorly elaborate,” he says, and adds: “Sissi and Sayli when they call they have a high -ranking officer controlling the calls.”
