The United States government condemns the imprisonment of Cuban leader José Daniel Ferrer by the Castro dictatorship

The Western Hemisphere Affairs Office of The United States condemned the Cuban regime’s decision to send opposition leader José Daniel Ferrer back to prison and called on the dictatorship to respect the rights and aspirations of the people.

The US State Department body asked if he had been dismissed the benefit of the house arrest of the well-known dissident José Daniel Ferrer and that he was forced to stay in prison the more than four years he had to serve for an alleged assault.

By a message posted on your Twitter account, US government officials assured Cuban dissidents should not be jailed “for exercising their freedoms.”

“Freedom for Daniel Ferrer. The Cuban government has canceled his house arrest sentence and jailed him again, following protests last month. The Cuban government must respect the rights and aspirations of its people, not imprison them for exercising their freedoms ”, expresses the message of the body charged with the implementation of US foreign policy in the Western Hemisphere

The leader of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (Unpacu) was arrested on October 1, 2019 and sentenced to prison in February 2020 after a closed-door trial for an alleged crime of injuring another man, a charge his family and associates deny.

After six months of confinement, and under strong international pressure, in April 2020, his sentence was commuted to four and a half years of house arrest.

Over a year later, Ferrer has been jailed again for joining the recent citizen protests of July 11. The same day he was kidnapped by the regime near his home. It took 35 days to hear from him.

His relatives published this Tuesday a text of the Provincial People’s Court of Santiago de Cuba dated August 12, in which the judge revokes the house arrest of the leader of the opposition and orders his entry into a penitentiary establishment There, serve the remaining 4 years and 14 days.

To justify the decision, the magistrate maintains that Ferrer maintained “an attitude contrary to the requirements he must fulfill” during his house arrest phaseAccording to the court document, which provides for a period of three days to appeal.

The judge alleges that the convicted person did not return to work and exhibited “incorrect and provocative behavior to the authority”, in addition to being prosecuted for a new crime of public order, a charge which has been imputed in recent weeks to many protesters on July 11.

José Daniel Ferrer García, 51 years old, He is one of the best-known dissidents outside the island, since he was part of the “group of 75” convicted in 2003 during the repressive wave known as the “black spring” and released between 2010 and 2011 with an extra-criminal license after a dialogue in which the Catholic Church and the Spanish government negotiated. In other words, it almost happened nine years in prison, six of them in solitary confinement, and he was tortured dozens of times.

Ferrer, a resident of the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba, he is one of 12 dissidents who decided to stay in his country after his release.

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