Family blocked from visiting Cuba political prisoner (UPDATED)

José Daniel Ferrer García

Cuban political prisoners are forced to suffer numerous tortures at the hand of the captors.

And when that is not enough for the regime, it goes after the prisoners' families, adding to their pain.

That's what happened recently when relatives of imprisoned journalist José Daniel Ferrer García not only were blocked from seeing him, guards forcibly removed them from the Las Tunas provincial prison.

The episode reminds that when it comes to its repressive ways, there is no limit to whom the Castro dictatorship hurts.

UPDATED, Jan. 14, 2010 — Ciudadanos has a few more details about what happened.

Posted by Marc R. Masferrer on January 13, 2010 at 07:35 PM in Media, Miscellaneous | Permalink

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