{"id":129256,"date":"2019-07-31T16:42:18","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T16:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.do\/?p=129256"},"modified":"2019-08-01T03:07:16","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T03:07:16","slug":"constitutional-court-revokes-article-ordered-jail-for-defamation-of-politicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/07\/31\/constitutional-court-revokes-article-ordered-jail-for-defamation-of-politicians\/","title":{"rendered":"Constitutional Court revokes article ordered jail for defamation of politicians"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.do\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Tribunal-Constitucional-Listin-Diario.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-129324\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Constitutional Court (TC) declared that Art. 284-18 of Electoral Regime Law 15-19 violates the Constitution. The article had established a penalty of three to ten years in jail for defamation crimes against politicians. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Constitutional Court ruled: &#8220;The imposition of custodial sentences for sharing propaganda affecting a candidate denaturalizes the exercise of free access to information and unreasonably and disproportionately limits the freedom of expression and dissemination of thought.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2019\/07\/31\/576237\/tc-echa-abajo-articulo-de-la-ley-electoral-lesivo-para-la-prensa\">Listin Diario<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tribunalconstitucional.gob.do\/\">Tribunal Constitucional<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>31 August 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Constitutional Court (TC) declared that Art. 284-18 of Electoral Regime Law 15-19 violates the Constitution. The article had established a penalty of three to ten years in jail for defamation crimes against politicians. The Constitutional Court ruled: &#8220;The imposition of custodial sentences for sharing propaganda affecting a candidate denaturalizes the exercise of free access &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/07\/31\/constitutional-court-revokes-article-ordered-jail-for-defamation-of-politicians\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[154,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129256"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129256"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129325,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129256\/revisions\/129325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}