14ymedio, 20 August 2024 — The historian Alina Bárbara López Hernández and the journalist Jorge Fernández Era were detained this Sunday, once again, by State Security after having “challenged” the home confinement measures that have been arbitrarily imposed on them. The arrests of the Cuban intellectuals were carried out separately as reported by themselves and their relatives on social networks. The journalist was intercepted in the morning as he left his home in Havana. As every 18th of each month, his intention was to protest peacefully for a series of political demands that are part of a list of demands addressed to the Government that he has been defending with López since April 2023.
“Aware that I would not be allowed to go anywhere, I decided to get out and that was enough for them to handcuff me, put me in the car and we moved ‘to Guanabo’, according to information provided to my wife,” he said Monday on his social networks, where he recounted some details of his arrest. Contrary to what was reported to his relatives, he was taken to the Santiago de las Vegas station, where he was forced to remain for eleven hours