MADRID, Spain.- The Cuban political prisoner and leader of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU), José Daniel Ferrer, has been held incommunicado since March 14, without his relatives being able to see him in the Mar Verde prison, Santiago de Cuba. .
The last scheduled visit was this Thursday, May 11, but as has happened on previous occasionsthe Castro authorities once again prevented it.
As explained through social networks Ana Belkis Ferrer, sister of the opponent, on Wednesday night Nelva Ismaray Ortega Tamayo, his wife, received a call from the prison. In the call she was notified that the wedding visit would take place this Thursday.
“As expected, they repeated the same mechanism of manipulation and lies again. Nelva went to the Mar Verde prison and around noon the head of internal order, known as Mayor Ortiz, told her that the visit would not take place,” she recounted.
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Once again they deny a conjugal visit to #SOSFerrer pic.twitter.com/uL6dbbbH74– José Daniel Ferrer (@jdanielferrer) May 12, 2023
In his publication, he recalled that since March 14, no family member has seen José Daniel again. That day was the last conjugal visit. While the last phone call was on March 6.
The last news received by the family was through the Archbishop of Santiago de Cuba, who visited Ferrer on March 17.
“For almost two months José Daniel has remained, in the best of cases, totally incommunicado,” denounced Ana Belkis Ferrer.
José Daniel Ferrer, also a promoter of Cuba Decide and president of the People’s Party, was arrested on July 11, 2021 (11J) when he was preparing to join the popular demonstrations. They transferred him to a cell in the Versalles torture center, and at the beginning of August they sent him from there to the Mar Verde prison, where he has been since then and without a trial date.
