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April 29, 2012

Castro regime releases jailed Cuban dissident Jose Daniel Ferrer Garcia

JDFReutersJose Daniel Ferrer Garcia (Reuters photo)

Cuban opposition leader Jose Daniel Ferrer Garcia was released from jail on Sunday, almost a month after his most recent arrest.

But Ferrer, one of Cuba's most active opposition leaders still faces charges of "instigating, directing and financing public disorder" in eastern Cuba. No trial date has been set.

Ferrer, leader of the Cuba Patriotic Union, was one of the Group of 75 dissidents arrested and sentenced to lengthy prison terms during the "black spring" of 2003. He was one of the final Group of 75 prisoners to be released last year after he refused overseas exile as a condition of his release.

Martinoticas.com has more on Ferrer's release.

Posted by on April 29, 2012 at 08:42 PM |

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