Havana/The demonstration that Professor Alina Bárbara López, the writer Jorge Fernández was and historian Jenny Pantoja star again this Friday for the security of the State. Although the academic could carry out her protest, Fernández was arrested and Pantoja was forced to remain in her home. Other activists, such as Blanco Berta Soler’s lady and her partner, were held at home since Thursday.
“My husband, Jorge Fernández was, just stopped a patrol with state security agents at the corner of the house. They told me that they would take him for the Aguilera unit,” in Lawton, in Lawton, public In social networks Laideliz Herrera Laza. As explained, the collaborator of 14ymedio He was heading to the Central Park of Havana where he has manifested for two years.
Fernández had already warned hours before his intention to demonstrate. “So that for me it is not left, I will stop today, April 18, in front of the monument to Martí of the Central Park, to, in addition to demanding, it is convened to a constituent assembly, all political prisoners are released, the galloping poverty and cease the harassment of those who think differently, just define my legal situation and that of people like Alina Barbara López Hernández,” he wrote on Facebook.
For his part, López criticized the arrests and surveillance of the political police for Fernadez was, Pantoja, Soler and her husband, the former political prisoner Ángel Moya Acosta. He also denounced that activist Yamilka Lafita, known as Lara Crofs, prevented him from leaving his home.
López criticized the arrests and surveillance of the political police Fernadez was, Pantoja, Soler and her husband, the former political prisoner Ángel Moya Acosta
The academic also offered the details of her demonstration: between 9:00 and 10:00 in the morning she went to the State Security Headquarters in the Versailles neighborhood. “Before withdrawing from the place, I asked the recruit that guarded in the garrita that would do me to communicate to the officer who directs the institution that the citizen Alina López had exercised her right to the peaceful demonstration,” he said. Later, he moved to La Libertad Park where it usually manifests.
In another text shared on Thursday, López had recalled that exactly one year ago he was intercepted by the Police and beaten by several officers, who locked her in a patrol with little ventilation. “Everyone will remember then with the complaint I made before the Military Prosecutor’s Office of Matanzas: ‘filed for lack of elements constituting crime,” he added.
Pantoja’s imprisonment at home was indicated by the Cultural Rights Observatory. “More than a year ago that a group of citizens support this claims initiative in pursuit of the country’s democratization. The Government of Cuba responds with parapolicial violence through its repressive apparatus, illegal surveillance is the most used method.”
They also explained that Pantoja’s house had been surrounded by police officers and “women who integrate the force destined for the confrontation of Cuban dissidents (to avoid the images associated with gender violence).”
As for Soler and Moya, Cubalex published the details of his detention on Thursday. The arrest, clarifies the platform, occurred around 2:00 in the afternoon in the area of the Virgen del Camino, in Havana, and “so far its whereabouts are unknown.”
“The forced disappearances of short duration are a systematic practice of the regime that seeks to break the will of those who disagree”
“The forced disappearances of short duration are a systematic practice of the regime that seeks to break the will of those who disagree. This tactic leaves the detainees without access to defense, without contact with their families and completely exposed to abuse, violating their fundamental rights,” said the statement, which recalled that both activists are frequently harassed by state security.
This start of the year has been active for the repressive devices of the regime. Next to the 553 prisoners release Through the mediation of the Vatican, the island’s government has intensified its persecution to activists and relatives of political prisoners, getting to enclose several of them.
This is the case of Two collaborators of 14ymedio: Yadiel Hernández Hernández, known as Kakashiin Matanzas, when he investigated drug trafficking and consumption in a city school. The other is José Gabriel Barrenechea, who has been in prison for five months, waiting for trial, for participating in the protests of November 8 at the crossroads, Villa Clara.
The political police also have been trying to prevent the patriotic union for weeks, based in Santiago de Cuba, to deliver food and aid to those in need. Its leader, the opponent José Daniel Ferrer, He has reported Several attempts by police officers to steal the food he buys, in addition to the arrest of several of their collaborators.
