14ymedio, Havana, 24 December 2023 — After the Hermanos Saíz Association (AHS) censored, in October 2022, the event The Worst Generation, with a poster of artists who had begun to question the regime, Alina Bárbara López Hernández began to be the object of attention by State Security. The professor and historian was going to moderate that debate, in addition to prefacing a book that would have the same title and that the regime also prevented from being carried out.
She herself reported the harassment through social networks and, after receiving several requests from the political police to appear for questioning, she presented a “formal complaint and annulment action against the official summons” to the Provincial Prosecutor’s Office of Matanzas, where she resides.” With this, the teacher achieved something unprecedented: State Security annulled the summons.
Her actions and arrests have been reflected in Havana by the writer and journalist Jorge Fernández Era, with whom she collaborated on the digital magazine La Joven Cuba. In January 2023, inspired by Matanzas, Fernández Era presented a similar demand for nullity in the capital, after receiving a summons to appear, and did not attend the scheduled meeting.
She was tried for “disobedience,” and declared guilty on November 28
In April, López Hernández was detained for several hours by State Security after protesting another detention of Fernández Era in Matanzas’ Freedom Park. After being released, she recounted the details of the arbitrary detention in a long Facebook post and announced that every 18th day of the month she would demonstrate peacefully.
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