Luis Enrique Ferrer García
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Luis Enrique Ferrer García is a Cuban dissident. He is married and has a daughter.
He was arrested during the Black Spring in 2003 and received a 28-year sentence for his work with the Varela project, a civic initiative calling for democratic reforms in Cuba.
Upon leaving the courtroom, a member of the mob struck Luis Enrique Ferrer García with a hammer, and his mother and sister were violently thrown to the ground.[1]
To protest his unjust imprisonment, especially severe prison conditions and mistreatment by prison authorities, Ferrer García has engaged in numerous hunger strikes throughout his detention, often leaving him very ill and weak. He was the victim of numerous physical assaults by security guards and violent prisoners. According to Human Rights First, attacks are believed to be encouraged by prison authorities to harass and intimidate him.[1]
Ferrer Garcia was freed in November 2010.[2]
Garcia is part of the Cuban Patriotic Union, the same organization that Wilmar Villar Mendoza belonged to. [3][4]
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- ^ a b Luis Enrique Ferrer and José Daniel Ferrer García, Human Rights First, http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/defenders/hrd_cuba/hrd_cuba_garcia.htm, retrieved 2007-12-19
- ^ http://marcmasferrer.typepad.com/uncommon_sense/2010/11/cuban-prisoner-luis-ferrer-released-will-soon-take-exile.html
- ^ Cuban dissidents send out images of police crackdown 2011 12 17, Juan O. Tamayo, Miami Herald
- ^ Cuban hunger striker Wilmar Villar dies in jail, 20 January 2012, BBC
