The International Federation of Digital Journalists (FIPED) denounced the arrest by security forces (DNI) of journalist Marino Zapete Corniel, saying that freedom-of-the-press laws in the Dominican Republic are being violated. The federation says that the arrest was made without any prosecutor?s order.
Zapete has achieved much notoriety for his articles published in Los Nuevos Tiempos Digital, a publication widely circulated by email to a large mailing list in the Dominican Republic.
A recent issue carried a report on Zapete?s visit to the area of the new Jarabacoa mountain home of the President.
Speaking at a press conference in Miami, Daniel Efra?n Raimundo, the director of Los Nuevos Tiempos Digital, said: ?We support, defend and applaud the courage of the Dominican journalist, at times when the other media are silent accomplices in the case of Baninter and the mansions that President Mej?a is building in Jarabacoa and another zone near the Dominican capital.?
For a copy in Spanish of his most recent article and to request an email copy of his story on the Jarabacoa house, see
http://www.cafebambu.com/