His relatives consider that it is a retaliation for the letter that the opposition leader managed to send from the prison.
Miami, United States. – The authorities of the Mar Verde prison denied Monday the conjugal visit to Nelva Ismarays Ortega Tamayo, wife of the opponent José Daniel Ferrer, and prevented him from seeing him. After the refusal, the doctor and activist of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU) decided to stand in front of the prison, exposed to being detained, Ana Belkis Ferrer García denouncedsister of the opposition leader, on Facebook.
“On the morning of Monday, October 6, 2025, Nelva Ismarays Ortega Tamayo went to Mar Verde Prison. A few minutes ago [antes de las 8:44 a.m.] He sent to say that he was denied the conjugal visit and the possibility of at least seeing Ferrer, so he decided to stand in front of the prison and at any time he can be arrested. ”
The publication adds that “everything indicates that the dictatorship was very bothered with The letter that [José Daniel Ferrer García] managed to get out of prison and we publish on Friday 3. ” [a] The entire gangster directive, including [a] The repressive agents of the G2 ”.
Also on Facebook, the Cuban Observatory of Human Rights (OCDH) described The fact as “a new retaliation” against the leader of the UNPACU and held the security regime of Ferrer García and Ortega Tamayo.
The episode occurs after last October 3 was known a manuscript letter of the opponent, dated September 10, in which he accepts the exile to protect his family, but ensures that he will not accept regime conditions.
This Sunday, it transpired that there was no certainty that Ferrer García’s exile was realized, explained Ana Belkis Ferrer. “Very grateful with so much support, solidarity and signs of affection and affection towards my brave brother José Daniel Ferrer and family, after the publication of his letter announcing having accepted exile,” He wrote the opponent.
In the letter disseminated by the family, Ferrer reported the abuses to which he has been subjected. From the beginning, he claims to have suffered “cruel inhuman and degrading treatment by slender and other instruments of the worst dictatorship that the American continent has known.” In addition, he points out the cruelty of the Mar Verde authorities in recent months through “beatings, torture, humiliations, threats and extreme conditions.”
On the decision to accept exile, Ferrer García wrote: “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 UNPACU leader was provisionally released in January this year and returned to prison on April 29. Since then, their relatives indicate that it has remained in a condition of isolation and under pressures to force him to leave the country.
