(EFE).- The exile organization Cuban Democratic Directorate joined opponents and activists on the island demanding this Monday a life certificate for the leader of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (Unpacu) José Daniel Ferrer, of whom they have no news, they said, for 47 days.
“After 47 days without knowing anything about him, not even his voice, opposition activists in Baracoa (eastern Cuba) demand life from the Havana regime for José Daniel Ferrer,” members of Unpacu asked, according to reports the Board of Directors in a statement.
Several activists from the organization expressed in a video their alarm at the fate of the opposition leader, “who is apparently confined in the Mar Verde prison”, in the province of Santiago de Cuba, but who “is not allowed to make phone calls” nor has received the last visit from relatives that corresponded to him on August 26, they denounced.
“Apparently he is confined in the Mar Verde prison”, but “they do not allow him phone calls” nor has he received the last visit from relatives
The Cuban Democratic Directorate joined the Unpacu complaint and “demands from the Castro regime faith in the life of this valuable Cuban opponent, as well as his immediate and unconditional release and that of all Cuban political prisoners.”
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) launched an initiative at the end of last December to urge the Cuban authorities to put an end to the ill-treatment Ferrer is suffering, for whom he demanded immediate release.
According to these human rights organizations, the opponent’s health condition had already deteriorated “seriously” in those months that he had been deprived of liberty.
The prisoner informed his family at the beginning of last December that he was being held in an isolation cell without windows or contact with the rest of the inmates, and that he received food in a state of decomposition, in addition to the fact that he is forced to go dressed only in clothes. inside.
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