SAN LUIS POTOSÍ, Mexico.- The academic Jenny Pantoja She was arrested on the afternoon of Wednesday, September 18, after being besieged in her home, according to a report by the Cultural Rights Observatory.
The anthropologist and historian Cuban woman could be charged in Villa Marista, according to what was communicated by the regime’s agents at the time of her arrest.
“I will go out because they have no legal authority to detain me and because I think and know that the day we all fight firmly for our civil rights, they will not be able to hold on to power any longer,” Pantoja had said about her willingness to carry out the peaceful protest that she carried out every 18th with Alina Bárbara López Hernández.
Hours before the detention arbitrary, the intellectual had attached photos of the patrols surrounding her home and stated that the regime’s repressors follow her everywhere.
In her text, published on Wednesday, she expressed her indignation at the expulsion of Alina Bárbara López from UNEAC, also harassed by State Security.
“This month, September, not to be outdone, the henchmen of the failed Cuban government, through their henchmen, the organs of State IN-Security, have launched a wave of repressive actions against those of us who dissent. The cathartic peak was reached with the expulsion of the intellectual Alina B López Hdez from UNEAC and the resignation of Jorge Fdez Era,” he wrote.
“Raymar Aguado, a prominent young intellectual activist, and Alex Hall, who is also a prolific intellectual in publications in various media, are also cited by IN-State Security for ‘interviews,’” he said.
He also referred to the case of Jorge Fernández Era, who was notified to attend Villa Marista on Wednesday to meet with the Deputy Kenia. “More of the same, but with more intense tones and shades.”
At the end of July, officials from the Miguel Enríquez Faculty, part of the University of Medical Sciences of Havana, fired Jenny Pantoja Torresas the academic told CubaNet.
“The dean, Natascha Mezquia de Pedro, decided in a meeting to dispense with my services under the pretext that there are too few students and too many professors in the department,” he explained.
Pantoja had been working at the institution since April as a professor of Cuban History and Political Culture. Although she was on probation, her performance had been satisfactory and weeks before her immediate boss had assured her that her services would not be laid off.
He June 18thIn addition, Pantoja was violently detained along with the teacher Alina Barbara LopezBoth were heading from the city of Matanzas to Havana to carry out their peaceful protest with the aim of demanding changes in the government structure in Cuba and the release of political prisoners.
