Regime prosecutes Cuban intellectual Alina Bárbara López for “disobedience”

The critical intellectual Alina Bárbara López Hernández reported that the Cuban regime will prosecute her for the alleged crime of “disobedience.”

“The Municipal Court of Matanzas decided to file the accusation against me for a crime of 'Disobedience'. I formally went from accused to accused. "It is a common crime, although we all know that this case has always had a political nature,"wrote the editor and essayist from Matanzas in a Facebook post which has raised the solidarity of Cuban civil society since last Monday.

Although he had initially said that the trial would take place this month,López Hernández specified in another postthat his lawyer “made a mistake when telling me the date, it will be the 16th of November, at 9:30 am at the Matanzas Municipal Court.”

López Hernández has been harassed in recent months by the Cuban political police due to his critical position and his decision to exercise his citizen right to peaceful protest.

The academic has been carrying out a monthly civic action for political prisoners and the resignation of senior officials of the regime, which consists of protesting alone with a blank sign in Liberty Park.

On several occasions she has been harassed, detained and subjected to interrogations.

It all started last April when the Cuban authoritiesThey prevented him from protesting peacefully in that park in the center of Matanzas, against the arrest of the writer and journalist Jorge Fernández Era.

The Cuban intellectual went out for a walk with a sign demanding the release of the writer, who was arrested by the Police in Havana.

The regimeCuban intellectuals from Matanzas are also regulatedwho was prevented from participating in an academic event outside the island.