Both family members and the group Cuban Democratic Directorate of Miami (USA) demanded this Thursday from the Miguel Díaz-Cane regime a proof of life of the imprisoned Cuban opposition member José Daniel Ferrer.
This is because it was revealed that the dissident was brutally beaten in a prison and had to be rushed to a hospital.
According to the Council for the Democratic Transition in Cuba (CTDC), Ferrer was beaten in the Mar Verde prison, in the province of Santiago de Cuba, and urgently transferred to the Boniato prison hospital, in this same province.
Faced with the situation, Brian A. Nichols, Undersecretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs of the United States, showed his indignation.
“We call on the Government of Cuba to allow immediate access to his family and release him, along with the nearly 1,000 political prisoners unjustly detained in Cuba,” Nichols wrote on his X account.
Ana Belkishuman rights activist and José Daniel Ferrer’s sister said in front of the NTN24 cameras: “Now we don’t know how my brother is, because they haven’t allowed him to be seen since April 1 of this year, when his wife saw him for 2 minutes.”
“They (the regime’s supporters) say that they are only going to let it be seen today at 2 in the afternoon from a distance, that they are going to show it to the woman, which makes no sense and goes against human rights,” he added. .
For its part, Ferrer’s wife, Nelva Ismaray, said: “This is not the first time they have beaten him, they have even done it in front of our son. We demand that they give us proof of life, because we have to see what conditions they have it in.”
On July 11, 2021, Ferrer and his son, Daniel Ferrer Cantill, were arrested for participating in popular protests against Castroism.
Ferrer, who was under house arrest, was transferred to the Mar Verde prison to serve the remainder of the four-year sentence to which he was sentenced for corruption in 2019.
Since then, he has been subject to “ill-treatment and violations” of UN recommendations on the treatment of prisoners.
