The facts may constitute a crime of “injuries, illegal deprivation of liberty and disclosure of the secret of communications”
14ymedio, Havana, 23 April 2024 — Professor Alina Bárbara López Hernández filed a complaint against the four agents who arrested her last week when she was traveling to Havana to hold a protest
The record of receipt of the complaint before the Military Prosecutor’s Office of Matanzas highlights that the reported events “could be related to the commission of the crimes of injuries, illegal deprivation of liberty and disclosure of the secrecy of communications,” all of which are contemplated in the penal code.
“As a victim, I can be part of the process and appoint a lawyer, which I will do,” the intellectual added on her Facebook account.
“As a victim, I can be part of the process and appoint a lawyer, which I will do”
In the document, to which EFE had access, the complainant describes the attacks she suffered from the agents last Thursday at the Bacunayagua police checkpoint, when she was traveling from Matanzas to Havana.
López, 58, claims in the complaint that she was forced to return to Matanzas “for no apparent reason” and that, as she “refused without receiving an explanation,” “they pushed her, hit her” and “they put her into the patrol car through the force.”
Once in the vehicle, the text continues, “after being immobilized in the lying position” they “attacked her by leaning on one of her knees, slapped her and twisted her right hand.”
Then they left her locked up, alone and in the sun for an indeterminate amount of time inside the police vehicle and, when she protested to be let ou