Amnesty International alarmed by systematic intimidation to leader of UNPACU and his family

The Human Rights Defender Amnesty International expressed concern on Wednesday for the harassment and harassment of elements of State Security and the Police about the Cuban consciousness prisoner José Daniel Ferrer García.

«Since their release last January, José Daniel, his family and nearby people have suffered harassment, harassment, judicial citations, threats of criminalization, and arrests,» Amnesty said in a statement.

The organization stressed that Ferrer García, leader of the opposition Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU), has dedicated his life to the struggle for human rights, and fulfill as a consequence «unfair prison sentences.»

«He and his family have never stopped denouncing human rights violations that he and many other people, activists and human rights defenders have suffered,» the statement underlines.

Amnesty stressed that the daily work of the opposition leader and his family to provide food and health care to dozens of vulnerable people in their locality «is a sample of their civic commitment and courage.»

«The authorities must cease harassment and harassment against him and his family, they must cease threats and intimidation against them and those who collaborate,» said the NGO.

On Wednesday, USA He also reacted to the harassment of the Cuban regime against Ferrer and the humanitarian aid project that leads at the UNPACU headquarters with other activists and collaborators. «Outraged by Harassment of the Cuban Police to Citizens who receive food and first -need articles of @jdaniefferrer,» said the Western Hemisphere’s Office of the State Department in X.

Ferrer has denounced in several videos and posts Shared in their social networks the growing harassment of state security, with a police operation in the surroundings of his home, in the cast of Santiago de Cuba.

Hundreds of people in extreme poverty in that province of the east of the country have received food, health care and medicines in recent weeks thanks to the humanitarian work of UNPACU.