Police officers in the Dominican Republic have attacked and threatened a journalist reporting on a forced eviction they were carrying out in the north of the country ...
In 2012, 12 cases of individuals and communities whose human rights have been violated were given huge international public attention by Amnesty International. ...
Activists peacefully demonstrating in the Dominican Republic against discrimination suffered by Dominicans of Haitian descent were arbitrarily arrested by the police ...
A prosecutor in the Dominican Republic has filed charges against five policemen and a naval officer for the murder of two men in 2009, in what Amnesty International ...
A prosecutor in the Dominican Republic has filed charges against state agents for the murder of two men in 2009, just another example of the pressing need for radical ...
Human rights defenders in the Americas have made fundamental contributions to the advancement of human rights. However, as the clamour for human rights has grown ...
On 20 November a mentally disabled man was brutally abducted in Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic, during an illegal forced eviction carried ...
In the Dominican Republic many factors limit the effectiveness, and contribute to the high level of distrust, of the police. Reform of the National Police is felt ...
The Dominican Republic's National Police must urgently address how it responds to public protests as part of a comprehensive policing reform in the Caribbean nation ...