Indignation for new imprisonment of Ferrer and Navarro grows, what is behind the measure? (VIDEO)

The leaders of the Cuban opposition José Daniel Ferrer, in Santiago de Cuba, and Félix Navarro, in Matanzas, were arrested in the last hours and driven again to prison. The new attack against these historic human rights fighters in Cuba has raised a wave of convictions.

Both prisoners of the black spring of Cuba in 2003 had been convicted again as part of the attack against the protesters of July 11, 2021; and January 2025 left prison on probation.

«While the world looks at other matters, the Cuban regime stops opponents of Félix Navarro and José Daniel Ferrer, together with Ferrer relatives. Fighting peacefully for democracy and human rights in Cuba is not a crime. #Soscuba«Alessandra Pinna, the director of the programs in Latin America and the Caribbean in Freedom House.

Johanna Cilano, from Amnesty Internationaldenounced the revocation of probation to both and warned that «during the last months, once again, the Cuban government has cruelly used people defenders and political opponents as currency, and has played with the desires of thousands of family members, all part of a systematic policy of repression.»

«We demand the release of all people detained for exercising and defending their rights. #Cubasinrepresion,» wrote the prestigious organization.

Amnesty International referred to the press release of the vice president of the Popular Supreme Court, Maricela Sosa Ravelo, who confirms the revocation by provincial courts of probation and orders the return to prison of both.

Cilano considers that this text «contains allegations that betray the political reasons that exist after this measure.»

«Jose Daniel and Félix have decades of political activism and struggle for human rights. His imprisonment, such as thousands of people in Cuba in recent decades has been unfair and arbitrary,» said the expert.

From the Cuban Observatory of Human Rights The measure announced by the Supreme Court was qualified as a «repression disguised as legality.»

He RACE AND EQUALITY INSTITUTE He wrote on his social networks that they received the news of the arrest of Cuban opponents «with extreme concern.»

He Cubalex Center He demanded the immediate release of the coordinator of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU) and denounced the systematic harassment against Ferrer, his family and the activists who come to collaborate in the community project that is carried out at the headquarters of the organization in Altamira, Santiago de Cuba.

Also the activist of Cubadecide, Rosa María Payá, He denounced that it is a «more patraña» against these Cuban fighters that are among «the greatest symbols of the Cuban opposition.»

Payá explained details of how the arrests of both occurred, early on April 29, 2025, and said that «these kidnappings are no accident», but that they have to do with the complaint that Ferrer recently made before the Human Rights Subcommittee Parliament Europe.

«Cuba remains the nation of the American continent where human rights are most violated and where there are less freedom. Sens and six years under a police party regime, enemy of the West and ally of the worst dictatorships of the planet,» Ferrer said on April 8.

Before the European Forum, Ferrer presented the complicity of the Cuban regime in the invasion of Russia against Ukraine, in the consolidation of authoritarianism in Venezuela and Nicaragua and in the «sympathies with terrorist movements such as Hamas and Hezbollah.»

The leader of UNPACU explained to the parliamentarians of Europe that the release process that took place on January 16 was “misleading”, since the people who, like him, faced constant threats to be returned to prison for their political and humanitarian activism.

For the activist Anamely Ramos With these actions «the message is simple: here we send.»

«Based on these blows of strength they maintain the possibilities in their control range. They are the ones who release, it is they who squeeze, and when they are convenient for them, what do they release again. What demonstrates the above is that the Supreme Court has issued a note about the revocation of Ferrer and Navarro and has sent it directly to the foreign press media accredited in Cuba, which has long behaved as a box of resonance. of state security. misfortune, and the bodies that suffer there, many times in the shadow. Maintaining that shadow about those spaces of reality is the maximum objective, that people cannot see, much less surprise, «wrote the art historian, former member of the San Isidro movement.

The historian Manuel Cuesta Morúa He condemned the arrest of Ferrer and Navarro and called for all Cubans to support the release of these opposition leaders and all the political prisoners of Cuba.