The prestigious Cuban academicAlina Bárbara López Hernández gave details in his profileFacebook of the violent police arrest he suffered on Thursday morning when he was going from Matanzas to Havana.
The teacher, whoShe was released in the afternoon after being detained for almost 12 hours without reason. Some recalled that she was arrested at the Bacunayagua checkpoint, where the police demanded that she get into a patrol car without giving her any explanations or showing her an arrest warrant.
"They only answered that they did not know the reason for the arrest or the person who determined it and they repeated like automatons that they were following orders," he said.
"I made it clear to them that without knowing the reason I did not agree to get into the patrol car. Then three female officers grabbed me by force to get me in. In the strong struggle I was hit in the face, head, arms, and I also defended myself emphatically. Who knows? dares to reduce me by force, without a clear arrest order or a convincing explanation, you should know that I will always defend myself," he stressed.
The activist explained that they managed to get her into the car and she was lying in the back seat, then a thick officer knelt on her legs to prevent her mobility. The other two, thinner, went through the other door to snatch his wallet and twisted my right arm, with such violence that they damaged the shoulder joint.
"I can't move that arm and I'm in terrible pain," he said.
The agents then took the cell phone away and closed the car tightly. When she felt hot and short of air, she asked for the windows to be rolled down.
"They refused and I first started kicking the window and then I started hitting the inside of the car until they had to open it. If they dare to close me under those conditions I will always react like that," clarified the intellectual, alluding to the video published by the regime, whereHe was seen inside the patrol car banging on the door in protest and demanding that the agents finish taking her to the station.
According to López Hernández, she remained there for an hour or more until they left to return to Matanzas, where they took her to the Playa Police station.
He was there from around 11:00 am until 5:30 pm. At that time she was seen by a doctor who detected a problem in her shoulder and gave her paracetamol, which gave her no relief.
"In total, it was just over five hours from the time I arrived until someone came to talk to me. (...) Finally they took me to an office where the criminal instructor Yordanys was, who gave me a warning, which I did not sign. I did not go. charged," he said.
Alina thanked all the people who were concerned and demanded her release and who denounced "the hitmen who today committed enormous rapes and abuses."
He added that this Friday he will give details of his conversation with the officer, but that first he will go to the hospital to treat his shoulder.
On Thursday morning, the daughter of the prominent professor and activist denounced thathis mother had been arbitrarily detained when she tried to travel to Havana.
"She could only tell me that and that she would call me in a few minutes. She didn't, so I waited 30 minutes and started calling her again and she didn't answer her cell phone. They have her incommunicado and deprived of her freedom (which has already been returned to her after the fine was collected)," he said then.
Alina Bárbara López Hernández, who resides in Matanzas, wasprosecuted last November for an alleged crime of disobedience, after in April 2023 he went out with a sign to the central park of that city to demand the release of the writer and journalist Jorge Fernández Era.
After the trial, it wasconsidered guilty and sanctioned by the Municipal Court of Matanzas to pay a fine.
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