Beginning the fourth week of a hunger strike, Cuban political prisoner Dr. Darsi Ferrer has been thrown into an isolation cell at the Valle Grande prison, according to a report posted at Misceláneas de Cuba.
Ferrer, who started his protest to demand needed medical care and for a judicial resolution of the supposed criminal case against him, has been in solitary since April 7, according to the report, which was filed by Cuban independent journalist Juan Carlos Linares Balmaseda.
Meanwhile, according to Linares, officials again denied a request for Ferrer, who has been in jail since last July, be released pending the outcome of the case.
Ferrer, a physician, journalist and human rights activist, who had become one of the more outspoken critics of the Castro dictatorship, was arrested after he alleged bought some concrete on the black market to make some repairs to his residence. Other dissidents, however, believe he was targeted for repression because of his activism.
Amnesty International in February designated Ferrer as a "prisoner of conscience."
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