"Media unions [in the Dominican Republic] protested [in the city of Santiago de los Caballeros] to claim respect for freedom of expression and to demand sanctions against police agents for the aggression of several journalists and photojournalists.
The heads of the Dominican College of Journalists (CDP, for its initials in Spanish), the National Union of Press Workers (SNTP), the Dominican Association of Tourist Press (ADOMPRETUR), the Association of Christian Communicators (ADOCOC), and the Santiago branch of the Photojournalists Association were joined by journalist Ramon De Luna, winner of the National Journalism Award.
The attempt to silence journalist Edward Fernández, of Diario Libre, by a congressman; the aggressions against journalists Inocencio Encarnación, Roberto Reyes, Maricela de la Cruz and Amparo Infante by a policeman; and the death of cameraman Newton González, are some of the cases they demand to be clarified. They also cited the aggressions against journalists in [the hospital] Santiago Rodríguez, [in the city of] Jarabacoa and demand clarification on the death of the son of journalist Luis Céspedes Peña."
