By Dave Sherwood
HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba`s top court said on Tuesday it had revoked the parole of high-profile dissident Jose Daniel Ferrer just three months after liberating the activist as part of a Vatican-brokered deal with the Biden administration.
Ferrer failed to attend two mandatory court hearings following his liberation, a violation of Cuban law and the conditions of his release, said Maricela Sosa, vice president of Cuba`s Supreme Popular Tribunal.
“Not only did he not show up, but he also announced through his social media profile, in flagrant defiance and non-compliance with the law, that he would not appear before the judicial authority,” Sosa told Reuters in a statement on Tuesday morning.
Ferrer, who lives in Santiago de Cuba and could not be reached for comment, has maintained that he was wrongly jailed by Cuban authorities from the start and that his presence at any judicial hearing was unnecessary.
The 54-year old activist founded an opposition group called the National Patriotic Union, or Unpacu, in 2011. He is among the communist-run island’s last remaining and highest profile dissidents.
(Reporting by Dave Sherwood; Editing by Christian Plumb)
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