The plight of Cuban political prisoner José Daniel Ferrer has alarmed the international community

Deteriorating Cuban opposition leader's detention “conditions” Jose Daniel Ferrer They are worrying the international community, which is asking for the release of Castro's dictatorship.

Ferrer, 54, considered a “prisoner of conscience” by Amnesty International, was captured in Santiago de Cuba on July 11, 2021 amid historic anti-government protests that have rocked 40 cities on the island.

In a resolution, the European Parliament this week condemned “torture and inhuman and degrading treatment by the Cuban authorities” against the opposition member and “other political prisoners”.

“Awaiting his release,” the European Parliament asserted against Miguel Díaz-Canel's dictatorship. “Immediately allow families” to access them “to receive medical care.”

US President Joe Biden's administration also participated in the protest.

Brian Nichols, US diplomatic chief for Latin America and the Caribbean, said in a message on the X social network that Ferrer's “we join the growing international concern about health”.

“We condemn the appalling conditions he and other unjustly detained political prisoners are experiencing.” He added, there were “almost 1,000” people.

Two weeks ago, in conversation InfobayFerrer's wife has condemned the harsh conditions her husband is experiencing inside a Cuban prison.

“My husband was arrested, kidnapped and imprisoned when he tried to come to participate in the demonstrations in Santiago de Cuba,” Nelva Ismare Ortega Tamayo began her story in an audio she sent to Infobay. Since then, the activist has suffered an intensive imprisonment.

“He is currently a prisoner in Cuba, under inhuman, cruel and degrading conditions, subjected to physical and psychological torture, confined in a penitentiary, and suffering the most repressive and incarceration,” his spouse denounced.

“He is without the right to telephone calls, family or marital relations for one year and six months,” said Ortega Tamayo; Sentenced by: “They're burying him alive, killing him slowly.”

The Cuban regime denies the existence of political prisoners on the island and accuses its opponents of being “mercenaries” of the United States.

According to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), Ferrer is in a “dangerous” situation.

From August 14, 2021, he is a “Penalty Cell” and as on March 17, 2023, “He was held in incommunicado detention for a long period of time, a situation which worsened between August 2023 and March 2024.”The Organization of American States (OAS) said in May. He was believed to be dead for a while, he added.

Ferrer was one of the 75 considered “political prisoners” of the Black Spring of 2003, sentenced to 25 years in prison and released in 2011, along with 130 other prisoners after negotiations between the government and the Catholic Church.

In August 2011, he founded the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU) in Santiago de Cuba, where he has his residence, the most radical of the opposition parties. He has been arrested several times because the country considers it illegal.

(With information from AFP)