They denounce State Security's harassment of writer Jorge Fernández Era.

The intellectual and writer Jorge Fernández Era is once again a victim of harassment by State Security (SE), being forced to serve house arrest this Sunday, as reported by human rights organizations in Cuba.

Three officials from the Ministry of the Interior prevent Fernandez from leaving his home, arguing that he is under house arrest, Cuba X Cuba reported on Facebook.

The comedian also told Professor Alina Bárbara López Hernández, during a phone call, that while he was getting ready to buy food with his wife, the poet Laideliz Herrera Laza, they were detained by two police officers and one from State Security, the latter dressed in civilian clothes.

Fernández tried to continue on his way, but the repressors tried to “forcefully put him into the police car,” denounced Cuba X Cuba.

The struggle continued until the undercover agent said, "they would not take him if he returned home," the organization pointed out, highlighting the violation of the Cuban intellectual's human rights.

They both returned to the house where they remain isolated and without internet access, as indicated in the complaint exposing another incident of repression against the Cuban civilian population, just a few days after ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel stated that events of this nature do not occur on the island.

So far, Fernández has not been condemned by any court and, on the contrary, has filed countless complaints to the Prosecutor's Office for the flagrant violation of his citizen rights.

Likewise, he has expressed his dissatisfaction to Rogelio Polanco, head of the Ideological Department of the Central Committee of the Party, and to Uneac. However, in both cases, he has not received any response.

The board of directors of the organization Cuba X Cuba, of which Fernandez is a collaborator, condemned this new violation of the rights of an honest citizen, warning that "it adds to many others perpetrated by Cuban State/Party/Government forces."

Similarly, they demanded that the authorities refrain from violence and harassment, arguing that they "violate the rights endorsed in the Constitution."

However, the harassment towards the Cuban writer began this Saturday when he himself reported on Facebook that two SE officers warned him not to leave his house.

"They warn me that they will arrest me if I try to leave today for Central Park. I will do it at some point during the day regardless of the consequences, wherever they take me, wherever they lock me up, whatever they charge me with. I do not fear them," the activist said in his post.

In 2023, more than a hundred artists and comedians supported Fernández and denounced that he was the subject of unfair harassment by the SE, which penalized him for his collaborations with independent media.

The renowned Cuban actor and comedian, Osvaldo Doimeadiós, sent a message showing his solidarity and willingness to help in the difficult situation he was going through at that time.