Surveillance camera removed from the street where reporter Iliana Hernández resides in Havana

TheSurveillance Camera located on the street where the Cuban reporter and member of theSan Isidro Movement, Iliana Hernandez It was removed this Friday by three workers who arrived at the area in a white van.

“Didn't they say that that camera wasn't for me?” the journalist fromCyberCuba in a tweet, in which he also shared images of themoment when they dismantled the equipment from a public lighting pole, right on the corner of his home in Havana.

In response to the publication of Hernández, who traveled to Spain last week, several Internet users expressed their concern that The regime saw his recent departure as definitive and did not allow him to enter Cuba..

“We will see what happens, I already said what I would do if an airline does not allow me to get on the aircraft, they will know if they want to be a mockery to the world” responded the activist who couldtravel to Spain after four years of a government ban.

Other users of the social network stated that the surveillance camera will be recycled, like everything in the country,and will end up in the house or neighborhood of other opponents or independent journalists those that the dictatorship wants to keep well controlled, in a direct violation of their rights and freedoms.

The teamIt was installed in the Hernández neighborhood in December 2020, according to a video that she herself published on Twitter on that occasion, in which she also said in a mocking tone that thanks to her they would no longer rob the area and that is why they should name her Delegate.

“There is no coincidence here,” said the independent journalist while recording the clip. “Security cameras to protect us from thieves, hahaha,” and he joked that his neighbors would be able to sleep with the doors open.

At the beginning of that same month, State Securityhad installed other surveillance equipment on the roof of the house of the president of the Committee for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR) from the block where the activist resides. They thus had access to the entrance to the home of the Cuban reporter, who was even under siege during those days.

After leaving Cuba and arriving in the Spanish capital, Hernández commented that this decision was not final, although he will be away from the island for more than a year. He assured that he plans to return and thatwill continue working for the freedom of the country.

The reporter announced that she traveledupon knowing that it was no longer regulated, a condition that since March 2018 prevented him from leaving Cuban territory. This "immigration regulation" is one of the methods most frequently used by the government to punish and maintain control over opponents, activists and independent journalists.