Jorge Fernández Era was released, but with a ban on leaving the country

MIAMI, United States. — Cuban journalist writer and editor Jorge Fernández Era, who was detained and interrogated this Thursday by agents of the Ministry of the Interior (MININT), it was “regulated” by the island authorities.

In a extensive publication Posted on Facebook, where he recounts in detail what happened yesterday, media collaborator such as The touch and The Young Cuba indicated that the political police decided to “replace the precautionary measure of provisional detention with the also precautionary measure of ‘prohibition from leaving the country’ while the Municipal Prosecutor’s Office does not rule” on his criminal status.

“I suffered, I accept it, not because from now on I am denied to verify how bad the rest of the world is, but because from now on I have gone from being a journalist who —says UNEAC— ´writes aggressive articles against the leaders of the Revolution’, to a ‘regulated’ intellectual”, wrote Fernández Era.

The writer publicly thanked the teacher, essayist and historian for the gesture Alina Barbara Lopez Hernandezwho went yesterday to Parque de la Libertad, in the city of Matanzas, to demand his release.

“To her, and to the thousands of people who have spoken on the networks against the abuse of which I have been a victim, a big hug. It comes to them with the conviction that neither the prohibition to leave the Island, nor provisional detention, nor home confinement, nor cash bail, nor the obligation to appear, nor the jail itself will silence my cry for this Cuba of Alina , Hall, Raymar, Laideliz, them, you, me”.

The prominent Cuban intellectual also recognized the physical and mental damage caused by the persecution of State Security.

“And since it can’t all be bad news for first lieutenants Manuel and Vilarte, Major Viera and the officer of the Fire Department who will be my lottery in the fourth round, I inform you that, since they entered my existence, I have lived with haggard eyes. I suffer from palpitations and I sleep on antirepressive drugs,” said Fernández Era, who has been harassed by the political police for weeks.