José Daniel Ferrer’s sister thanked the support samples after the opposition leader accepted exile to protect his family.
Lima, Peru – There is no security that the exile of the opponent José Daniel Ferrer takes place, Ana Belkis Ferrer García, sister of the political prisoner, explained on Sunday.
Through A publication On Facebook, Ana Belkis thanked the support samples after the leader of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU), revealed in a Letter written from the green sea prison who accepted exile out with the aim of protecting his family.
“Very grateful with so much support, solidarity and signs of affection and affection towards my brave brother Jose Daniel Ferrer and family, after the publication of his letter announcing having accepted exile,” he wrote.
In the message, Ana Belkis ensures that even Ferrer’s relatives do not have the assurance that this determination is finally completed since the Castro dictatorship “has done his best and impossible to obtain certain benefits that they have obviously not achieved, or achieve.”
The publication also claims justice, freedom and life for José Daniel Ferrer and the more than a thousand political prisoners on the island.
“Dignity has no price and the values and principles are not negotiable (…) outside of the power so criminal and cruel dictatorship!” Highlights the text.
When publishing the letter accepted by exile was Cuba, Ferrer stressed that the regime is forcing it to do it under blackmail, abuse and humiliating conditions that it rejects.
The letter, dated September 10 and Published last Friday On the Facebook page administered by his relatives, he was written by hand and had to be disclosed “immediately”. In it, Ferrer denounces that for years he has undergone “brutal beating, torture, humiliations, threats even death” and that his family has also suffered “the most ruthless persecution” to press him to leave the country or renounce his activism.
Letter of exile between regime pressures
Since the beginning of the letter, Ferrer denounces that he has been the victim of “cruel inhuman and degrading treatment by slender and other instruments of the worst dictatorship that the American continent has known.”
As described, in the last four months and nine days the cruelty against him has intensified. He has suffered “beams, torture, humiliations, threats and extreme conditions”, in addition to “robberies of my food and cleaning products, ordered by the minion of the regime.”
Ferrer reveals that, even before his last arrest on April 29, he had considered the possibility of exile as a way of protecting his wife and children. However, it emphasizes that this “decision” was a direct result of the regime pressures.
“Given the constant manifestations of the political police to leave Cuba, I ended up accepting the exit to exile. Since the procedures began … the regime agents have been playing very dirty: harassment, threats, humiliations, robberies and extreme conditions.”
The opponent also denounces that strong personal pressure was imposed, even to celebrate his marriage on a symbolic date linked to the deceased dictator Fidel Castro. It also ensures that state security has produced videos and recordings with the intention of discrediting it, making it appear as a regime’s collaborator.
By making the letter public, in statements to Cubanet José Daniel’s brother said: “It is very important to spread that situation and the bad intentions of the dictatorship.”
Ferrer had been provisionally released in January 2025 as part of an agreement between the Cuban regime and the Vatican, but the measure was revoked after the death of Pope Francis. He was arrested again on April 29, 2025 after a police operation in his home. Since then, he remains jailed in conditions of isolation and under systematic abuses that aim to force him to leave Cuba.
