"[In the Dominican Republic,] the Dominican College of Journalists (CDP, for its initials in Spanish), the Association of Photojournalists, and the National Union of Press Workers (SNTP) alerted the country's top authorities and Dominican society this Thursday about a series of dismissals, mistreatment, threats, restrictions, and attacks against journalists and other media workers.
Press unions considered the dismissal of more than 40 journalism professionals and the presumed dismissals by the Directorate of Government Strategy and Communication (Diecom) to be excessive.
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They cited the assault on two journalists by security agents while asking a question to Interior and Police Minister Faride Raful, an action they consider detrimental to freedom of expression.
Equally worrying is the fact that people close to the director of the National Police based in Santo Domingo Este were upset by an article written by journalist Julio García Mazzara, who has been pressured to take down the publication."
