JOSÉ DANIEL FERRER ATTACKED BY THE STATE SECURITY

PRESS RELEASE

Raul Castro would have given personally the order to eliminate
opponents, and two days after the attacks against Guillermo Fariñas and
the ladies in white...

JOSÉ DANIEL FERRER ATTACKED BY THE STATE SECURITY

According to sources from the MININT (Cuban Interior Ministry) consulted
by UNPACU, Raul Castro has given personally the order to eliminate, by
all means, the most active opposition, UNPACU and the Ladies in white,
in a period of three months.
The repression and violence against "key" targets of the opposition have
increased these last weeks with individuals given concrete orders of
infiltration, instead of a massive police short-term repression strategy
that has been going on since three years.
Despite the visit of the Foreign Minister of Spain, José Manuel
García-Margallo and the trade negotiations launched with the European
Union, Raul Castro gave the order to start the repression these last days.


UNPACU REQUESTS FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION TO WATCH CLOSELY THE ONGOING
EVENTS AND TO CALL FOR AN END OF REPRESSION AGAINST PACIFIC OPPONENTS AS
A CONDITION TO THE ONGOING TRADE NEGOCIATIONS.


Santiago de Cuba, November 27th, 2014, 23:00. UNPACU.

UNPACU has been experiencing these last weeks, an increase of violence
that has been practiced through citizens working for the state security.
The main objective of this repression campaign is to cause fatal damage
and harm the opposition's most active organizations, UNPACU, Ladies in
White and Citizens for Democracy (CxD). A recent case related by various
Medias is the aggression of Guillermo Fariñas, 2010 Sakharov Prize for
freedom of conscience by the European Union, who was attacked by an
individual named José Alberto Botell Cárdenas. To stop the aggressor, a
number of people interfered and, among whom, two Ladies in white who
suffered important injures provoked by stab wounds. One of them is still
hospitalized in serious condition.

ON THE ATTACK AND PLOT AGAINST JOSE DANIEL FERRER

A similar case occurred in the headquarters of the UNPACU in Santiago de
Cuba, a case that is now the source of a farce the government is using
against José Daniel Ferrer.

On Thursday 13th of this month, at the headquarters of UNPACU, named
Maria Heredia and located in the neighborhood of Mariana de la Torre, in
Santiago de Cuba, an individual named Ernesto Jiménez Rodríguez,
following direct orders from the political police, provoked a violent
altercation, that was hardly stifled and ended by the expulsion of the
individual from the place. Few minutes later, the same individual went
to UNPACUs headquarters in Altamira carrying heavy metal balls that can
be considered clearly lethal.


Given that the activists recognized the individual and did not let him
renew his attack, he became extremely violent. By chance, many activists
and members were present in the UNPACU headquarter and managed to
immobilize the aggressor and to remove from him the metal arms he was
carrying.

Ernesto Jiménez Rodríguez, a known agent of the state security

Weeks earlier, the same individual Ernesto Jiménez Rodríguez presented
himself at the headquarter José Maria Heredia, demanding affiliation to
the UNPACU. After the usual inquiries, previous to the acceptance of any
applicant, the individual was found to be sent by the Interior Ministry;
a fact that has been confirmed by external sources (since he had been
identified in repressive acts against many activists) and by internal
sources (from the Interior Ministry). Yet, knowing this fact, and
without informing the individual, he was allowed to enter the
headquarters with the due control and with knowledge of his condition as
an infiltrated from the political police, and only for irrelevant meetings.

José Daniel Ferrer has been called by the State Security in order to
plead "guilty"

Following the facts mentioned above, José Daniel Ferrer has been called
by the State Security to testify, supposedly as the defendant, accused
by the individual Ernesto Jiménez Rodríguez, under a false accusation of
aggression against his person.

The summons was delivered to the opposition leader by two 1st
lieutenants by the NRP (National "Revolutionary" Police) around 6 pm of
the afternoon on November 27th at the headquarters of Altamira, Santiago
de Cuba.

José Daniel Ferrer has declared that "In any case, believing that an
individual who has been seen by more than 15 witnesses assaulting many
people could lead a peaceful human rights activist to be brought to
custody creating a false accusation and might even lead him to
detention: There is no way that the UNPACU will submit to this farce"

A complete declaration by Jose Daniel Ferrer (in Spanish), explaining
all the events, can be heard on the following link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEKNr-QISs8

The case of Ernesto Jiménez Rodríguez's attacks was already published by
UNPACU on November 13th and can be found in the following link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t4r9QEsj1Y



1. Direct witnesses of the aggression that occurred in the UNPACU
headquarters in the neighborhood of Mariana de la Torre, and who managed
to expel the aggressor, were: Ricardo Torres Hernández, José Augusto
Bueno Fuentes, Magalis Rivaflecha Revilla, Amado Torres Montalvan,
Yusmila Reyna Ferrera, Ana Lidia Torres Gomez, Roberto Cuello Pozo y
Ernesto Oliva Torres
2. Direct witnesses of the aggression that occurred in the UNPACU
headquarters in the neighborhood of Mariana de la Torre, and who managed
to expel the aggressor, were: Ricardo Torres Hernández, José Augusto
Bueno Fuentes, Magalis Rivaflecha Revilla, Amado Torres Montalvan,
Yusmila Reyna Ferrera, Ana Lidia Torres Gomez, Roberto Cuello Pozo y
Ernesto Oliva Torres


FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT THE UNIÓN PATRIÓTICA DE CUBA (UNPACU):

José Daniel Ferrer, Cuba, Secretario Ejecutivo
Teléfonos: (+53) 53 14 6740 / (+53) 54 33 2181 / (+53) 53 74 0544 /
(+53) 58 32 3612
Luis Enrique Ferrer, Miami, Rep. en el Exterior
Teléfono: +1 786 553 1666
Email: unpacu@gmail.com
Javier Larrondo, Madrid, Rep. en Unión Europea
Teléfono: +34647564741
Email: info@unpacu.org
Website de la Unión Patriótica de Cuba:
www.unpacu.org
Tweeter de José Daniel Ferrer:
@jdanielferrer
http://twitter.com/#!/jdanielferrer
Vídeos directos desde Cuba (Canal YouTube):
http://www.youtube.com/user/unpacu