Prison penalties for defamation excluded from Dominican Republic draft penal code
The International Press Institute (IPI) today warmly congratulated the Justice Committee of the Dominican Republic Chamber of Deputies for removing prison penalties for defamation and insult from the draft penal code under consideration. In a letter to the Committee’s president, Demóstenes Martínez Hernández, IPI Executive Director Alison Bethel McKenzie lauded the move “an important step […]
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