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MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION (2024/2805(RSP))

On the case of José Daniel Ferrer García in Cuba

B-10-2024-0042

on behalf of the PfE Group · Rapporteur: Susanna Ceccardi, Roberto Vannacci, Silvia Sardone, Hermann Tertsch, Jorge Martín Frías, Klara Dostalova, Ondřej Knotek, Jaroslav Bžoch, Jana Nagyová, Jaroslava Pokorná Jermanová, Nikola Bartůšek

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This resolution concerns the case of Cuban activist José Daniel Ferrer García and human rights in Cuba. It calls for his release, condemns repression, urges sanctions and suspension of EU agreements, and criticizes EU institutions.

Key points

  1. Calls for the immediate and unconditional release of José Daniel Ferrer and all arbitrarily detained persons.
  2. Urges Cuban authorities to provide necessary medical care to Ferrer, citing grave danger to his life due to jail conditions.
  3. Condemns systematic human rights violations by the Cuban regime and urges an end to repression and lack of religious freedom.
  4. Disapproves of the EEAS and High Representative Josep Borrell for ignoring or banalizing the Cuban people's outcry.
  5. Calls on the Council to adopt sanctions against those responsible for human rights violations in Cuba and demands cessation of EU financial aid.
  6. Urges the EU to apply Article 85(3)(b) and immediately suspend the PDCA between the EU and Cuba.

Who is affected

  • Cuban authorities and regime: must release prisoners, provide medical care, end repression.
  • EU institutions (Council, EEAS, Commission): must adopt sanctions, stop aid, suspend PDCA.
  • José Daniel Ferrer García and other detainees: would be released and receive medical care.

Figures and deadlines

  • More than 1,000 political prisoners and prisoners of conscience arbitrarily detained in Cuba.
  • 25 years' imprisonment sentence for Ferrer in 2003.