- Name: Jose Daniel Ferrer Garcia
- Position: Cuban human rights activist. Leader of the dissident movement in Cuba (Cuba Decide)
- Deprived of liberty since: July 11th, 2021
- Judgment: 25 years of imprisonment
- Country: Republic of Cuba
- Place of confinement: Unknown location
- Health condition: Severe health conditions
- Torture complaint: Yes.
José Daniel Ferrer García is a Cuban human rights activist whom the international and Spanish media refer to as “the visible head of the dissident movement in the interior of the Island since the death of Oswaldo Paya in July 2012.”
He was one of the 75 prisoners arrested in the Black Spring of Cuba and sentenced to 25 years. The Prosecutor’s Office requested the death penalty against Ferrer García; then State Security officials proposed that he would not be killed if he agreed to leave Cuba. He has carried out numerous hunger strikes in prison and outside, claiming for the rights of others and his own. He was in prison from 2003 to 2011 and was declared a prisoner of conscience of the Black Spring in Cuba by Amnesty International.
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Jose Ramon Bauza
Position: Member of the European Parliament
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Jose Ramon Bauza Diaz is a Spanish Euro deputy, politician and pharmacist who served as president of the Balearic Islands between 2011 and 2015. A member of the Popular Party between 1996 and 2019, he was also mayor of Mariachi and Senator.
