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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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MEPs demand Castro regime to end repression against UNPACU activists.

A group of members of the European Parliament (EP) demanded Thursday that the Castro regime cease repression against the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU) and expressed their concern for the more than 40 activists who have been on hunger strike for thirteen days.

In a letter (pdf) sent to the Cuban regime's Ambassador to the European Union, Norma Goicochea Estenoz, the group calls for the "cessation of the repressive police siege against UNPACU and its activists for their humanitarian work".

The document was signed by EP Vice-President Dita Charanzová; Javier Nart, María Soraya Rodríguez, Leopoldo López Gil, and the vice-president of the European Conservatives and Reformists group, Hermann Tertsch.

 

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