"During the visit we noticed that he continued to lose weight but his morale remains high", said Adolfo’s daughter Joana Fernandez and his wife Julia Nunez. He has been banned from receiving Christian Life, a weekend publication of exclusively religious content. His family are going to continue to bring him religious literature despite the prison administration’s refusal to pass it on to the political prisoner.

Adolfo Fernandez and two other prisoners convicted in connection with his case — Arnaldo Ramos Lauzurique and Alfredo Adolfo Dominguez Batista — have been banned from taking their meals in the prison canteen. They must remain in their respective cells and wait for the food while other prisoners are taken for meals to the canteen. They have been offered no explanation to this effect.

Of 75 dissidents arrested in March 2003, 61 remain behind bars. "This news doesn’t become obsolete as the time passes because every day in prison takes away years from the lives of these people — members of Cuban civil society who have been silenced in such a brutal way," write the political prisoner’s wife and daughter. "Despite all measures and talks, their suffering and the suffering of their families continues, and it is a long time yet before the regime that tortures political prisoners every day in many ways inventing more new means of reprisal, eases."

Adolfo Fernandez’s family are granted permission to visit him once every three months. They are grateful to all organisations and individuals who remember their father and husband. Their involvement in his fate and the attention of the public support him in prison to which he was confined by Cuban authorities for 15 years.