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UNPACU could end hunger strike after apparent lifting of police siege (VIDEO)

After 26 days of being in place, the Cuban regime would have lifted this Friday the police siege to the main headquarters of the Patriotic Union of Cuba, in Santiago de Cuba, where some of the 25 activists who joined the hunger strike called by the opposition organization remain.

"If so, we could speak of a victory of reason, of justice, of the humanism that characterizes us, against the perversity of the regime that hates its people," said the leader of the opposition movement, José Daniel Ferrer, in a live broadcast via Periscope along with Cuba Decide coordinator Rosa María Payá. 

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List of UNPACU strikers. Twenty-five activists of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU) remain on hunger strike in the Altamira and El Cristo neighborhoods of Santiago de Cuba, but also in Guantanamo, Havana, Holguin, Las Tunas and Ciego de Avila.

Only one activist, Alberto Acosta Sánchez, is supporting the hunger strike from Brazil, as reported to CiberCuba by Nelva Ortega, member of UNPACU and wife of its leader, José Daniel Ferrer.

Although so far more than 70 people have joined the UNPACU hunger strike and a hundred have supported it with fasting, most of them have had to abandon the protest due to health problems.

On Wednesday, April 7, the physical deterioration of José Daniel Ferrer, who continues to suffer from kidney and stomach pains, head and joint pains, nausea, dizziness, loss of balance and weight, and blurred vision, was a cause for concern. 

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Amnesty Int'l: Communist Cuba represses all dissent. The Amnesty International Report 2020/21: The State of the World's Human Rights, published on Wednesday, denounces that the Cuban regime represses all forms of dissidence.

The report, which covers 149 countries and contains an exhaustive analysis of the trends observed by this organization in human rights around the world in 2020, mentions several cases of Cuban opponents, activists and journalists whose rights were violated in the period covered by the report, among them José Daniel Ferrer, Camila Acosta, Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, Denis Solís and Roberto de Jesús Quiñones Haces.

The region of the Americas continues to be one of the most dangerous in the world for defending human rights and Cuba is mentioned among the countries where journalists and human rights defenders suffered aggressions, threats, prosecutions, arbitrary detention and unlawful surveillance. 

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Arrests and incommunicado detention of UNPACU strikers. Nelva Ortega, wife of José Daniel Ferrer, was detained for 3 hours, Ferrer's daughter, Fátima Victoria Ferrer, 16, and activist Yaniris Popa were also detained.

The activists of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU) were victims of violent detentions and incommunicado detention while they continue with a hunger strike against repression and a police siege ordered by the government.

It was reported via Twitter that Dr. Nelva Ortega, wife of José Daniel Ferrer, leader of this opposition group, was violently detained by State Security agents when she was on her way to visit striker Niuvis Biscet, who is very weakened.

Ferrer's daughter, Fatima Victoria Ferrer, 16, and activist Yaniris Popa were also detained along with the doctor. The three women were arbitrarily detained for three hours. 

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