After around eight months of negotiations, the Dominican government and the Dominican Newspaper Society (SDD) have reached a consensus on amendments to the National Intelligence Agency (DNI) Law, which had been criticized for infringing on freedom of the press. The SDD was critical of several ambiguities in the law that creates the new centralized intelligence agency.
A joint commission, composed of journalists, civil society representatives, business leaders, government officials, and legal experts, has agreed on modifications to several articles of the law, including those related to the protection of journalistic sources. The objective is to safeguard journalistic freedom.
“We have managed to build a version that corrects the ambiguities of the law,” said Persio Maldonado Sánchez, president of the SDD. The agreement, reached after a final lengthy meeting...
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