Speaking yesterday, Tuesday 12 November, Deputy Pelegrin Castillo denounced what he described as an international campaign to use the international media to pressure for international penalizations against the Dominican Republic. As reported in Listin Diario, Castillo said that in 1999 the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) asked the San Jose Court to ban the Dominican state from exercising migratory control on any Haitian in its territory, independently of whether the person was here legally or illegally. He said that then the IACHR position is that the Dominican state does not have the right to exercise migratory controls on the border or regarding Dominican nationality, respecting the minimum standards of human rights. He said the present international campaign following the issuing of Constitutional Court Ruling 168-13 seeks to intimidate the country.
“At this time, it is important that the Dominican people know of this historical fact that occurred in the first hearing on the process after the ‘Dominican Republic: Apartheid of the Caribbean’ documentary was shown. Castillo said most of the cases taken to that court have the same faked characteristics of the recent case of William Ferreras Medina or Winet Yean. He warned that the Dominican Republic’s experience with the IACHR has always been negative.
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