IV 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 165
Calling for the immediate release of all political prisoners in Cuba, including 
Mr. Jose Daniel Ferrer Garcia, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 24, 2005
Mr. ANDREWS submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was 
referred to the Committee on International Relations 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Calling for the immediate release of all political prisoners 
in Cuba, including Mr. Jose Daniel Ferrer Garcia, and 
for other purposes.
Whereas Mr. Jose Daniel Ferrer Garcia, a pro-democracy ac-
tivist in Cuba, was arrested and jailed during the March 
2003 crackdown on Cuban dissidents for his outspoken 
leadership in the Cuban democracy movement; 
Whereas Mr. Jose Daniel Ferrer Garcia is the regional coor-
dinator for the Christian Liberation Movement in 
Santiago Province and, through this leadership position, 
he has mobilized many Cuban youth for democratic 
change, and has focused on accomplishing the move-
ment’s chief objective: to unite citizens that are willing to 
defend and promote human rights and achieve changes in 
the Cuban society through peaceful means;
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Whereas as documented by Amnesty International, Mr. Jose 
Daniel Ferrer Garcia has joined the ranks of thousands 
of political prisoners being held in Cuba’s abysmal pris-
ons; 
Whereas some of these prisoners are being held merely for 
expressing their frustration with the Cuban Government’s 
refusal to provide better health care and improve prison 
conditions; 
Whereas in 1999, the Cuban Government adopted the Law 
for the Protection of National Independence and the 
Economy of Cuba, also known as ‘‘Law Number 88’’ or 
the ‘‘Gag Law’’; 
Whereas the Cuban Government uses its food rationing sys-
tem to promote tyranny and control the Cuban populace; 
Whereas in cases in which the Cuban Government is unable 
to establish grounds for long prison terms for political 
dissidents, these dissidents are continually harassed, de-
tained for short periods of time, subject to their phones 
being tapped, and otherwise under constant surveillance; 
Whereas foreign dignitaries are seldom allowed by the Cuban 
Government to meet with Cuban political dissidents; and 
Whereas Cuban dictator Fidel Castro continues to deny that 
the Cuban Government holds any political prisoners: 
Now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That—
(1) it is the sense of the Congress that the em-
bargo of Cuba should not be lifted until the Cuban 
Government agrees to decriminalize free speech, as-
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sociation, and movement, and other elements crucial 
to the development of democracy and the protection 
of fundamental human rights; and 
(2) the Congress calls on the Cuban Govern-
ment—
(A) to immediately release all political pris-
oners in Cuba, including Mr. Jose Daniel 
Ferrer Garcia; 
(B) to eliminate all of Cuba’s criminal laws 
that unnecessarily restrict the fundamental 
human rights to freedom of speech, association, 
and movement; and 
(C) to respect fundamental human rights 
and immediately schedule free multiparty and 
internationally supervised elections.
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