Following a series of demos outside the London Cuban embassy in support of political dissident and human rights worker Jose Daniel Ferrer we are pleased to announce that he has been released.

Newsagency AFP were contacted by a friend of Jose's and they broke the story Sunday (their report is below)

Other dissidents are still being held and other demos and protests will take place in the future - see our website for details.

Cuban police freed leading dissident Jose Daniel Ferrer on Sunday after three days behind bars, without charge, a fellow activist said.

Ferrer was arrested at his home near Santiago de Cuba on Thursday, when police raided his home and confiscated documents, work equipment and other belongings, said Elizardo Sanchez, head of the banned but tolerated Cuban Committee for Human Rights and National Reconciliation.

“He was released in the morning, without charge, as with previous arrests,” Sanchez told AFP.

Ferrer, 41, leader of the banned Patriot Union of Cuba, was among 75 dissidents jailed and sentenced to long prison terms in 2003. But he was released last year through mediation from the Catholic Church.

The latest arrest was Ferrer's fourth this year alone. Police also took him in for three other days earlier in August, for 27 days in April and for 24 hours in May, due to his political activities against the communist regime of Raul Castro.