MIAMI, United States. – Through A letter written in his own cell and dated September 9Cuban opposition leader José Daniel Ferrer made an urgent call to the international community and civil society to pay attention to the precarious situation they are experiencing Political prisoners in Cuba.
The letter was validated by two of the brothers of the leader of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU), Ana Belkis and Luis Enrique Ferrer, and released by the Cuban American National Foundation (CANF).
In the letter, Ferrer, who has been in total isolation for more than a year and a half, denounced the inhumane conditions in which he and his companions are being forced to live, including the lack of medical care, food and personal hygiene products.
“Political prisoners Aníbal Ribeaux and Ian Games survive in very difficult conditions in this prison. They need a little more solidarity and material support for food, medicine and personal hygiene products,” says Ferrer.
Ferrer points out that the conditions in Cuban prisons are comparable to those in Nazi concentration camps: “The food we receive in this prison and in others competes with that received by victims of Nazi concentration camps. There are many prisoners who are underweight. I have seen them extremely thin,” he said.
The leader of the UNPACU He also complained that the lack of essential products such as soap and toothpaste has led to outbreaks of bedbugs and scabies among inmates. “Hundreds of prisoners have poor hygiene due to the lack of necessary products, soap, toothpaste. Bedbugs affect many, as does scabies. The water is often of very poor quality for human consumption,” wrote Ferrer.
The opposition leader regrets that he cannot share the resources he receives with other prisoners due to the strict surveillance measures that keep him in complete isolation. “I would like to share my food, my resources with my brothers in need, but my extreme isolation and surveillance of my person does not allow me to send anything to anyone in the prison. No prisoner is allowed to approach or speak to me. Even the jailers are prohibited from talking to me,” he explained in his letter.
Ferrer explained that his cell is equipped with surveillance cameras and wiretaps, which prevents any type of communication with other inmates.
The political prisoner said that his isolation is part of a strategy by the Cuban regime to silence him. “I have spent more than a year and six months without family visits and without telephone communication. The dictatorship has buried me alive, they want to silence me at all costs, that is why they do not listen to my voice, that is why they do not receive my opinions, my reasons, my complaints about what is happening in this hell,” he denounced.
Despite such conditions, Ferrer reaffirmed his commitment to the fight for freedom and justice in Cuba: “José Daniel Ferrer García never gives up. Daniel Ferrer García is and will die a staunch defender of freedom, democracy, human rights, justice and fundamental values.”
Ferrer also stressed the urgent need for support and solidarity for political prisoners and their families. “The struggle, however just, however legitimate, without brotherhood, without true and effective solidarity is doomed to failure,” Ferrer said, calling on the international community not to divert its attention from human rights violations. human rights in Cuba.
In his letter, the opposition leader not only expressed his concern for the situation in Cuba, but also expressed his solidarity with other nations facing dictatorships and repression. “My solidarity with Ukraine, with the opposition and those persecuted in VenezuelaNicaragua, Bolivia, Russia, Belarus, Burma and around the world,” he wrote.
