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La Jornada Newspaper
Saturday, November 23, 2024, p. 18

Havana., The complaint that the Cuban opponent Daniel Ferrer was brutally beaten in the jail where he is imprisoned yesterday led to an exchange of accusations between authorities from the United States and Cuba.

Ferrer’s wife, Nelva Ortega, said she received information that her husband He was brutally beaten by prison authorities and that he is in a hospital.

We demand that they teach us, that they give us faith in lifeOrtega requested in a video broadcast on social networks.

Declared prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International, Ferrer was detained in Santiago de Cuba when he was heading towards the historic marches of July 11, 2021.

Faced with the denunciation of the aggression, the head of US diplomacy for Latin America, Brian Nichols, said indignant.

For his part, the Cuban Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carlos Fernández de Cossío, questioned that with a deplorable record on human rights United States try judge other countries, like Cuba, to justify aggression.

The Cuban government has accused Washington of violating the human rights of its citizens by applying harsh economic sanctions against the island for six decades.