TEHRAN, August 11 - A leader of one of Cuba's largest dissident groups has been held incommunicado for a week in the eastern part of the country, the human rights organization Amnesty International said Friday.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - Amnesty called on the Cuban government to allow family members of Jose Daniel Ferrer Garcia to visit him at a jail in Santiago de Cuba and let him hire a lawyer of his choice.
The leader of opposition group Patriotic Union of Cuba and his colleague Ebert Hidalgo Cruz were arrested Aug. 3 following a traffic accident involving a plain-clothed security official, the group said. It said only Hidalgo has been allowed a family visit.
The U.S. State Department also expressed concern. "No family visit, no lawyer, no due process, no justice," Francisco Palmieri, a principal deputy assistant secretary in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, said in a tweet.
Ferrer was among 75 dissidents imprisoned in a March 2003 crackdown. He was released in March 2011.
The Cuban government had no immediate comment.
Source: AP
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