The former judge and lawyer Julio Ferrer Tamayo is again in prison

In 2004, Julio Ferrer was charged with fraud, convicted and sentenced to 8 months in prison. Eight years later, when he tried to register at the Cuban Legal Association (a nongovernmental organization), he was threatened with criminal prosecution if he continued the process of registration. A month after Ferrer denounced the president of the Second Criminal Circuit, Silvia María Jerez Marimón, before the Supreme Court, for abusing her position in the case against Ferrer's wife (sentenced to 6 year imprisonment), Jerez Marimon decided to start a trial against Ferrer for contempt. This trial with Ferrer, ended in a sentence of 6 months in prison and ban on practicing law for four years. After his release (2015), he joined the Center of Legal Information Cubalex. During the illegal entry into Cubalex's headquarters, where the authorities occupied the organization’s equipment and documents, Ferrer was forced to get undressed and than he was taken to a PNR station. He was imprisoned in the Prison Center known as "1580" in an area of low security. At the end of April 2017, his sentence of deprivation of liberty was changed to "correctional labor with internment".