Cuban opposition leader Ferrer announces exile after prison ‘torture’

HAVANA, Cuba (AFP) -- Jailed Cuban dissident Jose Daniel Ferrer, the longtime leader of the island's pro-democracy movement, announced Friday that he had chosen to go into exile after suffering "torture" and "humiliation" in prison. "Faced with the constant pressure from the political police to leave Cuba, I have ended up accepting exile," the 55-year-old wrote in a letter from prison dated September 10, which his wife Nelva Ismaray Ortega read to AFP by phone. The letter didn't say where he expec...