Darsi Ferrer
Darsi Ferrer Ramírez (born November 2, 1969 in Pinar del Río , † October 6, 2017 in West Palm Beach , Florida ) was a Cuban doctor , independent journalist and dissident . He was the head of the independent center for health and human rights "Juan Bruno Zayas" .
Among other things, Darsi Ferrer reported regularly on the state of the Cuban health system and the plight of political prisoners . In July 2009 he was arrested himself. Allegedly illegally acquired building materials for the renovation of his ailing house were seized from him. The human rights organizations Reporters Without Borders and Amnesty International spoke of a clear pretext to silence a critic. Amnesty listed Ferrer as a "prisoner of conscience".
The trial took place a good eleven months after his arrest. Ferrer was officially sentenced to one year in prison and three months of "corrective work" outside of prison. Since he had been detained for almost a year, he was released immediately.
In 2011, Ferrer protested in statements to the media, in April also in the form of a public demonstration in Havana, against the fact that the authorities refused to give his wife and him the official approval required in Cuba to travel to the USA. During the peaceful demonstration on a central street corner in the Vedado district, Ferrer was temporarily arrested along with four fellow activists. In the semi-official Cuban blog Yohandry's Weblog , the news was spread that the "provocateur" Ferrer had pursued the goal of preparing a "military intervention" by the USA through a "destabilizing image of Cuba". After two years of waiting, the authorities approved Ferrer's wife, who suffered from a blood vessel disorder in the brain that had not been diagnosed in Cuba, and their son finally to leave for the United States, which took place in April 2012. In June 2012 Ferrer also left Cuba and entered the USA as a political refugee.
On October 6, 2017, Darsi Ferrer was found dead in West Palm Beach, Florida. He was 47 years old.
Web links
- Darsi Ferrer: Del corralón castrista a la globalización in: Blogger Cubano from March 2012, accessed on May 10, 2012 (Spanish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Doctor and journalist arrested and taken to Havana jail ( Memento of August 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) , Reporters Without Borders , July 24, 2009 (English)
- ↑ Cuban human rights activist in maximum security prison must be released , Amnesty International , February 26, 2010 (English)
- ↑ Cuban prisoner of conscience released, Darsi Ferrer, Amnesty International of June 25, 2010 (English)
- ↑ EFE: Darsi Ferrer arrested in Cuba at peaceful protest in: Havana Journal of April 29, 2011, accessed on May 10, 2012 (English)
- ^ "Yohandry Fontana" (pseudonym): Cuba libera a Darsi Ferrer (+ video) ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) in: Yohandry's Weblog from April 29, 2011, accessed on May 10, 2012 (Spanish)
- ↑ Ricardo Quintana: Medicina cubana discrimina a los disidentes in: Martí Noticias of April 6, 2012, accessed on May 10, 2012 (Spanish)
- ↑ El disidente cubano Darsi Ferrer se exilia a EEUU con "pena y esperanza", in: El Mundo from June 28, 2012, accessed on June 18, 2014 (Spanish)
- ↑ Encuentran muerto a opositor cubano en West Palm Beach. In: américatevé. October 6, 2017, Retrieved October 7, 2017 (Spanish).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ferrer, Darsi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ferrer Ramírez, Darsi; Ferret, Darsi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Cuban doctor, independent journalist and dissident |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd November 1969 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pinar del Río , Cuba |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 6, 2017 |
| Place of death | West Palm Beach , Florida, USA |