The intellectual and writer Jorge Fernández Era has once again become a victim of harassment by State Security (SE), being forced into house arrest this Sunday, according to reports from human rights organizations in Cuba.
Three officials from the Ministry of the Interior are preventing Fernández from leaving his home, claiming that he is under house arrest, reported Cuba X Cuba on Facebook.
The humorist also recounted to Professor Alina Bárbara López Hernández during a phone call that while he was preparing to buy groceries with his wife, the poet Laideliz Herrera Laza, they were stopped by two police officers and one officer from the SE, the latter dressed in civilian clothes.
Fernández attempted to continue on his way, but the authorities tried to "forcibly put him into the patrol car," reported Cuba X Cuba.
The struggle continued until the plainclothes officer stated that "he would not be taken if he returned home," the organization pointed out, highlighting the violation of the human rights of the Cuban intellectual.
Both returned to the house where they remain isolated and without internet access, the report stated, highlighting yet another incident of repression against the Cuban civilian population, just days after the ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel claimed that such events do not occur on the island.
So far, Fernández has not been convicted by any court and, on the contrary, has filed numerous complaints with the Public Prosecutor's Office for the flagrant violation of his citizen rights.
He has also 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 received no response.
The board of directors of the organization Cuba X Cuba, of which Fernández is a collaborator, condemned this new violation of the rights of an honest citizen, warning that "it adds to many others perpetrated by the Cuban State/Party/Government forces."
Similarly, they demanded that the authorities cease the violence and harassment, claiming that it "violates the rights enshrined in the Constitution."
However, the harassment towards the Cuban writer began this Saturday when he reported on Facebook that two SE officers warned him that he should not leave his house.
"They warn me that they will take me away if I try to head to Central Park today. I will do so at some point during the day, regardless of the consequences, wherever they take me, wherever they confine me, whatever charges they bring against me. I am not afraid of them," said the activist in his post.
In 2023, more than a hundred artists and comedians rallied around Fernández and denounced that he was the target of unjust harassment by the SE, which penalized him for his collaborations with independent media.
The renowned Cuban actor and comedian, Osvaldo Doimeadiós, sent a message expressing his solidarity and willingness to help during the difficult situation he was facing at that time.
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