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DonateDear OAS Ministers of Foreign Affairs: Ahead of the assembly of the Organization of American States on Friday, the Committee to Protect Journalists urges you to oppose any attempts to debilitate the regional human rights system. The failure of member states to preserve the autonomy and independence of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and its special rapporteur on freedom of expression would make citizens throughout the hemisphere more vulnerable to human rights violations and represent a blow to democracy in the Americas.
Committee to Protect Journalists
Dominican Republic
Letters
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New
York, January 31, 2012--The six-month jail sentence of Dominican journalist
Johnny Alberto Salazar, who was convicted of defaming a local lawyer on January
18, should be revoked on appeal, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
Reports
| Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Iraq, Libya, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Russia, Somalia, Syria, Thailand, Tunisia, Vietnam, Yemen
Journalists die at high rates while
covering protests in the Arab world and elsewhere. Photographers and
freelancers appear vulnerable. Pakistan is again the deadliest nation. A CPJ special report
New York, August 3, 2011--The body of José Agustín Silvestre, a critical Dominican journalist who ran a magazine and hosted a television program, was found Tuesday morning shortly after he was seized by gunmen in the southeastern city of La Romana, according to local press reports.
New York, February 2, 2011--Dominican police wounded journalist Francisco Frías Morel on Friday as
he was covering a funeral procession for a youth killed in a police shooting in
the northeastern city of Nagua, according to news
reports and CPJ interviews. The Committee to Protect Journalists called on
local authorities to conduct a thorough investigation and to hold those
responsible to account.
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC:
New York, August 8, 2008—Unidentified individuals shot and killed Dominican journalist Normando García Thursday evening in the city of Santiago, 102 miles (163 kilometers) north of the capital, Santo Domingo. The Committee to Protect Journalists is investigating whether García’s murder is linked to his journalistic work.
At around 6:40 p.m., García, a cameraman for the daily news program “Detrás de la Noticia” (Behind the News) and producer of the music program “Pachanga Mix” on television station Teleunión, was dropping his car at a car wash when multiple gunshots were fired from a moving car, according to local news reports.
Attacks on the Press
| Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Panama, Uruguay
Attacks & developments throughout the region
November 24, 2007
Posted January 10, 2008
Noel Encarnación, Freelance, Despierta Ocoa
ATTACKED, THREATENED
Police attacked and threatened Encarnación, a freelance photographer and reporter for the radio news show "Despierta Ocoa" (Wake up Ocoa) on local state-owned radio Maniel FM, after he photographed victims of Hurricane Noel in the province of San José de Ocoa in central Dominican Republic, the reporter told CPJ.
Posted January 10, 2008
Noel Encarnación, Freelance, Despierta Ocoa
ATTACKED, THREATENED
Police attacked and threatened Encarnación, a freelance photographer and reporter for the radio news show "Despierta Ocoa" (Wake up Ocoa) on local state-owned radio Maniel FM, after he photographed victims of Hurricane Noel in the province of San José de Ocoa in central Dominican Republic, the reporter told CPJ.
JUNE 11, 2007
Posted June 26, 2007
Erica Guzmán, Hoy and Radio Popular
THREATENED
Guzmán, correspondent in the eastern city of Samaná for the national daily Hoy and the national station Radio Popular, told CPJ that her daughter received two anonymous calls threatening the journalist and her family with death after she reported on a local corruption scandal.
Posted June 26, 2007
Erica Guzmán, Hoy and Radio Popular
THREATENED
Guzmán, correspondent in the eastern city of Samaná for the national daily Hoy and the national station Radio Popular, told CPJ that her daughter received two anonymous calls threatening the journalist and her family with death after she reported on a local corruption scandal.
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