The outstanding Cuban academicAlina Bárbara López Hernández suffered a sprain and other injuries as a result of the abuse and beatings inflicted on him by three police officers during theviolent arrest of which he was subjected on Thursday when he was trying to leave Matanzas towards Havana.
Alina, 58 years old, was detained at the Bacunayagua checkpoint, where they demanded that she get into a patrol car without giving any explanation. When she refused, three female officers forced her into the car and once inside, they restrained her and beat her.
After almost 12 hours detained in a police station in Matanzas, was released. On Friday, due to pain, he had to go to the orthopedic ward at the Faustino Pérez provincial hospital.
"I was diagnosed with a right humeral dislocation (sprain of the right shoulder) that was immobilized with a sling and a subluxation in the thumb of my left hand, which I was immobilized with a cast for 21 days," he revealed.
"They issued me a medical certificate for 30 days. All of this was a result of the police brutality that was exercised against me yesterday," he stressed in hisFacebook.
In otherpost, the teacher offered details of theviolence that the police exerted on her when she refused to enter the patrol car without a reasonable reason, and stressed that she will never, in any circumstance in which she is physically attacked, stop defending herself.
"I asked for an explanation about the reasons for the arrest and the officers pushed me, hit me on the head and arms to get me into the car; even one of them (who was the rudest and told me several times: ' "Shut up, mija!") she took the opportunity when they had managed to get me into the car and I was immobilized to slap me. She was very upset, and she said it several times, because in the struggle her cell phone had fallen to the ground and it went off," Alina related.
"I responded to each blow to the extent that I could, which I think was a great measure, however there were three of them. I have obvious bruises and my right shoulder is in very bad condition because two of the agents twisted my arm back with all their strength. force when they had me lying down and immobilized in the back seat. Their purpose: to snatch my wallet to steal the phone I was carrying, which was not mine," he added.
Once the intellectual was transferred to the Playa police station, they left her waiting for five hours until they took her in front of Yordanis, a criminal instructor from State Security Operations, who introduced himself as a lawyer.
"Smiling, and seemingly friendly, her first question was the most cynical thing I have ever heard: 'Alina, how do you feel?' Imagine my response," she said.
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