Dissident Jose Daniel Ferrer Arrested

HAVANA TIMES — A political opposition group, the Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation, reported on Thursday that dissident Jose Daniel Ferrer was arrested at his home in Santiago de Cuba, reported the EFE news agency.

A statement issued in Havana by the commission spokesperson Elizardo Sanchez said Ferrer was arrested on Thursday morning, at which time the authorities confiscated “all of his work materials, documents and other belongings of Ferrer and his family.”

Ferrer, 42, was one of the political prisoners of the “Group of the 75,” and currently leads the opposition party “Union Patriotica de Cuba.” He was also picked up and temporarily held by the authorities in February, April and May of this year.

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