Cuba: Cuban prisoner of conscience facing trial: Darsi Ferrer

Index Number: AMR 25/008/2010
Date Published: 18 June 2010
Categories: Cuba

Cuban human rights defender Darsi Ferrer is due to be tried on 22 June on spurious charges of receiving illegally obtained goods and violence or intimidation against a state official. He has already been in pre-trial detention for 11 months. Amnesty International believes that he is a prisoner of conscience, and is calling on the authorities to drop the charges against him and release him immediately and unconditionally.