Cuban State Security detained this Sunday in Matanzas the historian Alina Bárbara López Hernández and, in Havana, the writer and journalist Jorge Fernández Era and the activist Leonardo Romero Negrín. The first was arrested when she was preparing to protest against the precautionary measure of “home prison” for the crimes of “disobedience” and “contempt” filed against her during the illegal detention she suffered on June 14.
Lopez Hernandez announced on their social media that this Sunday she would express her discontent in the Parque de la Libertad, in Matanzas, for what she considered a “farce set up in order to threaten her and keep her confined in her home.”
The professor warned that, given the phobia that State Security feels for the posters with slogans against the Government, she would carry “a blank sheet as a symbol of the impossibility of exercising freedom of expression in Cuba.” Aware that she would not be allowed to arrive, she stressed that she would go up, “briefcase in hand, without any problem in the patrol car and from there to the prison”; however, she added that she would only testify in the presence of her lawyer.
The historian’s youngest daughter demanded her mother’s immediate release. “I will go wherever necessary but someone who still has a sense of justice in this country will have to listen to me,” she wrote on her mother’s Facebook account. She recalled that last Wednesday she spent the whole day sitting outside the La Playa station in Matanzas. where she was being interrogated her mother. The political police made the usual display of it and “watched me and looked as if trying to intimidate me. I want to make it clear to you (although they must have perceived it) that I am not afraid of them.”
The historian’s youngest daughter demanded her mother’s immediate release. “I will go where necessary but someone who still has a sense of justice in this country will have to listen to me”
Also this Sunday, the writer and editor Jorge Fernández Era was detained again in Havana. as denounced by his wife, Laideliz Herrera Laza. “He was taken to the Zulueta Unit.” He transcended that at the time of his arrest he was in the Central Park of the capital and was carrying a blank sheet.
“From Cuban civil society we demand their immediate release,” said historian Alexander Hall.
On social networks, the arrest, in Havana, of the activist Leonardo Romero Negrín, the 9/11 protester who was beaten by an officer while in custody, was also announced. According to activist Carolina Barrero, he was arrested along with “his mother Aíxa Negrín when they were going to the Dragones police station in solidarity with Alina and Jorge.”
Romero Negrín was a physics student at the University of Havana when he was arrested on Obispo street for walking with a sign that read “Socialism yes, repression no.” It happened on J11, 2021 and he was released on July 17, accused of “public disorder”.
In an interview he gave to The Young Cuba The student said that what they did to him “was little” compared to other detainees who had “a bruise in the eye”, “the swollen face”, as well as “others with plaster casts, with broken fingers”.
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