Former President Hipolito Mejia, Luis Abinader and other PRD faction leaders have submitted a complaint to the OAS Inter-American Commission for Human Rights for supposed violations by the government. They say that the high courts are “controlled by the government party,” and have found it impossible to get a fair hearing on the conflict that has divided the PRD. They said that they would start a series of legal actions in other international organizations to rescue party institutions and benefit democracy in the country. They have enlisted lawyers Jaime Aparicio and Bjorn Arp of Aparicio, Arp and Associates in Washington, D.C. in the case. Aparicio said they would show the international courts that the state does not protect the civil and political rights of former President Hipolito Mejia, Andres Bautista, Orlando Jorge Mera and Geanilda Vasquez who were expelled from the organization by the faction headed by party president Miguel Vargas.
They will begin legal processes before the Committee of Human Rights of the United Nations, the Council of Human Rights of the UN regarding the independence of judges.