The historian Alina Bárbara López Hernández and the writer and journalist Jorge Fernández Era were released this Sunday afternoon after spending several hours arrested by State Security, the first in Matanzas and the second in Havana. However, in the early hours of this Monday Leonardo Romero Negrín was still detained, who was arrested in the capital with his mother Aixa Negrín, already released, when they were going to the Dragones police station to show solidarity with the first two.
Fernández Era’s departure from the station was confirmed by his wife, Laideliz Herrera, on your Facebook account with a simple “Jorge is already in the house. Thank you all for caring. We love you.” Since then, both have remained silent. The writer was in Havana’s Parque Central and was carrying a blank sheet of paper when he was arrested and taken to Zulueta’s unit. It is the second consecutive month that the intellectual, previously a contributor to the publication young cubais arrested after his discrepancies with the regime began earlier this year.
The writer was in the Central Park of Havana and was carrying a blank sheet of paper when he was arrested and taken to the Zulueta unit
Alina Bárbara López, on the other hand, Yes, he has recounted his arrest this Sunday, which occurred when he was leaving his house early in the morning to deliver medicine to his daughter. The teacher planned to go later to the Parque de la Libertad, in the city of Matanzas, where she protests every 18th of the month since last April, due to the political situation in the country. On June 14, López was arrested in the middle of the street when she was going to work and a precautionary measure of house arrest was imposed on her, in addition to the accusation for the crimes of “disobedience” and “contempt”, allegedly committed when she was arrested. .
This Sunday, the teacher was again taken to the La Playa station where, she points out, “she was pleased” by the treatment she received on this occasion, since they allowed her to be alone with her lawyer every time she requested it. She there she learned that “by magic” one of the crimes that she was accused of the previous Wednesday, that of abuse, disappeared, so that some witnesses that she had planned will no longer have to testify. For now, the crime of disobedience remains and López hopes that the Prosecutor’s Office will resolve the complaint that she filed a day after her arrest.
“The precautionary measure was not revoked for a more severe one, since I was detained at a time and place that were not the ones that I had announced for my peaceful demonstration, therefore they could not prove that I had violated the precautionary measure. I do not know dare to allow me to get to the Park to stop there, because they obviously want to avoid the eyes of public opinion about it,” he said.
From now on, the teacher promises to be “disciplined” and leave home from this Monday with a blank sheet around her neck, including the usual step she must take through Parque de la Libertad, where she works, since the prison measure domiciliary does not prevent you from traveling through the “usual routes”.
One of the crimes that he was accused of the previous Wednesday, that of mistreatment, disappeared, so some witnesses that he had planned will no longer have to testify. For now, the crime of disobedience remains
“I insist that our political system is a potential factory for political crimes that are crudely camouflaged under the guise of common crimes,” concludes her letter, adding that a patrol car took her home, as she had initially requested, because she is tired. to invest their money in returning from the police unit.
Romero Negrín, the only one of the three arrested whose possible release has not come to light, was a physics student at the University of Havana when he was arrested on Obispo street for walk with a sign that said “Socialism yes, repression no” on 11J 2021. The young man was released six days later 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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