The brutal beating of Cuban political prisoner Jose Daniel Ferrer that landed him in the hospital has been condemned by Cuban activists and human rights organizations all over the world. Now the U.S. is raising its voice and calling out the communist Castro dictatorship’s violent oppression.
The U.S. State Department and members of congress have all released statements denouncing the Cuban regime’s violent beating of a defenseless prisoner of conscience and its egregious human rights violations.
The Biden administration publicly condemned on Thursday the beating of Cuban opposition leader José Daniel Ferrer in Mar Verde prison in Santiago de Cuba.
The spokesperson for the Democratic administration has been Ambassador Brian A. Nichols, the Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs at the U.S. Department of State, who, in a message on X (formerly Twitter), called for the release of the general coordinator of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (Unpacu) and the thousand political prisoners unjustly serving sentences in Cuban prisons.
“Outraged by reports that José Daniel Ferrer was assaulted in prison and transferred to another detention center. We call on the Cuban government to provide immediate access to his family and to release him and the nearly 1,000 political prisoners unjustly held in Cuba,” he wrote on social media.
Congressman Carlos A. Gimenez also expressed his outrage over the beating of José Daniel Ferrer, calling on X for his release and an end to repression in Cuba.
In the same vein, Senator Rick Scott, former governor of Florida, stated on Elon Musk’s social network that the Cuban regime is trying to kill José Daniel Ferrer and called on the Biden Administration for immediate action to demand the release of all Cuban political prisoners.
“The Biden administration must take action. The United States must immediately demand proof that José Daniel Ferrer is alive. If José Daniel is killed by the Castro-Díaz-Canel regime, his death will not be solely due to their malice, but to four years of weak appeasement by Biden and his refusal to defend human rights in Cuba and to protect innocent political prisoners,” Scott added.
In the meantime, while the world is condemning the communist Castro dictatorship’s brutality, Democrats in congress are lobbying the Biden-Harris administration to send aid to the Cuban regime. And they still wonder why the lost the election.