They denounce the arbitrary detention of writer Jorge Fernández Era and academic Alina Bárbara López.

Cuban intellectuals Jorge Fernández Era and Alina Bárbara López Hernández have once again become victims of harassment by State Security (SE), having been detained indiscriminately by that repressive body this Sunday, as reported on social media.

The writer Jorge Fernández Era is missing after being detained on the morning of this Sunday by State Security and officers of the Revolutionary National Police at the exit of his home in Havana. The detention occurred after he announced on Facebook that he would hold a peaceful protest on August 18 in front of the José Martí monument in Central Park, independent media outlet La Hora de Cuba reported.

While academic Alina Bárbara was detained after protesting outside the Provincial Party headquarters in Matanzas in solidarity with Fernández Era, and is currently at the police station of La Playa in that city, it was noted from the intellectual's profile on Facebook.

Although they have not been able to ascertain the reasons for Alina Bárbara's detention, family members pointed to a "violation of her house arrest."

Hours before the academic spoke out, she had indicated on her profile that she had contacted Laideliz Herrera Laza, the wife of Jorge Fernández Era, and “at this hour she doesn’t even know where he is being held since they have evidently not allowed him to make a call to reassure her.”

Additionally, he had warned that "if they don't release him in an hour, I'm going to lie down at the entrance of the Provincial Committee of the Party in Matanzas, which they say is the one that guides and is above society and the state."

The civic thought laboratory CubaXCuba condemned the criminalization of dissent and the “violation of the constitutional rights to peaceful demonstration of Alina and Jorge, committed by the Cuban state and its repressive forces.”

Likewise, they demanded "the immediate release of both intellectuals, harassed by State Security in open violation even of Cuban law itself."

On the 18th of each month, the intellectual, along with other Cuban activists, would peacefully protest. She had been doing this since March 18, 2023, in the Parque de la Libertad in Matanzas, to protest against the repressive situation in Cuba.

He chose that date in homage to the Protest of the Thirteen, which took place on March 18, 1923, where an equal number of young Cuban intellectuals protested against the governmental corruption of the Island's Government.

However, the Cuban regime has viewed that demonstration unfavorably and sought, by all means, to prevent it, even resorting to repression against the demonstrators.