”Faced with constant pressures from the political police to leave Cuba, I have finally agreed to go into exile”, he writes in a letter from prison as reproduced by his relatives.
The 55-year-old Ferrer leads the country's largest dissident group, Cuba's Patriotic Union (Unión Patriótica de Cuba).
He has been imprisoned on several occasions, among other things after the extensive protests against Cuba's one-party rule in 2021.
In January, he was released along with hundreds of other prisoners after the then US President Joe Biden, in exchange for the releases, removed Cuba from Washington's list of countries that support terrorism.
But as early as April, he was imprisoned again when President Donald Trump revoked Biden's decision.
