The distinguished Cuban dissident José Daniel Ferrer has been free of jail and placed on a airplane to the US the place he’ll stay in exile along with his household, the communist nation’s international ministry has stated.
Ferrer, who has been imprisoned repeatedly because the long-term chief of the island’s pro-democracy motion, introduced this month he had opted for exile after dealing with “torture” and “humiliation” behind bars.
In a letter from jail, the 55-year-old stated that since he was re-imprisoned in April after being briefly freed underneath a cope with former US president Joe Biden, “the cruelty of the dictatorship in the direction of me has identified no bounds.”
He cited “blows, torture, humiliation, threats and excessive situations” in jail, together with “the theft of meals and hygiene merchandise ordered by the regime’s minions”.
Ferrer stated he took the choice to depart given threats that his spouse would even be imprisoned and his younger son despatched to an establishment for juvenile offenders.
The international ministry in Havana stated in a press release that Ferrer and members of his household left the nation for the US on Monday after “a proper request from that nation’s authorities and the categorical acceptance” of the dissident.
