{"id":168557,"date":"2021-11-17T07:20:02","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T11:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=168557"},"modified":"2021-11-17T10:33:21","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T14:33:21","slug":"haitians-receive-free-legal-assistance-through-the-national-public-defense-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/11\/17\/haitians-receive-free-legal-assistance-through-the-national-public-defense-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Haitians receive free legal assistance through the National Public Defense Office"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Justicia-maso-Twitter.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-145724\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The National Public Defense Office (Oficina Nacional de Defensa P\u00fablica) reports assisting 853 Haitians in the first months of the year of 897 foreigners. The foreigners receive free legal advance through this government department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of the foreigners assisted, 804 were Haitian men and 67 Haitian women. The office also assisted 6 Venezuelans, 4 US or Canadians (3 men and 1 woman), 3 Chinese, 2 Colombians, 2 Peruvians (1 man and 1 woman), 1 German, 1 Argentinean, 1 Spanish, 1 Dutch, 1 Italian, 1 Mexican, 1 Dutch, 1 Puerto Rican and 1 Russian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number of foreigners assisted by jurisdiction was<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Montecristi 70, Hig\u00fcey 70, San Pedro de Macor\u00eds 57, Mao 54, La Vega 46, Barahona 45, Santiago 44, Santo Domingo province 44, El Seibo 36 , Monte Plata 34, Pedernales 31, San Jos\u00e9 de Ocoa 29, Santo Domingo Oeste 27, Santiago Rodr\u00edguez 27, Jiman\u00ed 25, Azua 21, Neyba 19, Dajab\u00f3n 19, Espaillat 18, Distrito Nacional 18, San Juan de la Maguana 17, El\u00edas Pi\u00f1a 17, San Francisco de Macor\u00eds 16, Hato Mayor 16, La Romana 15, Ban\u00ed 15, San Crist\u00f3bal 14, Bonao 11, Cotu\u00ed 10, Puerto Plata 9, Salcedo 8, Las Matas de Farf\u00e1n 5, Villa Altagracia 5, Constanza 3, Saman\u00e1 1 and Nagua 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Public Defense Office represents those who for any reason do not have a lawyer in criminal law conflicts. It also carries out actions to ensure the rights of the assisted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/acento.com.do\/actualidad\/haitianos-son-extranjeros-mas-atendidos-por-defensoria-publica-9006143.html\">Acento <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>17 November 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Public Defense Office (Oficina Nacional de Defensa P\u00fablica) reports assisting 853 Haitians in the first months of the year of 897 foreigners. The foreigners receive free legal advance through this government department. Of the foreigners assisted, 804 were Haitian men and 67 Haitian women. The office also assisted 6 Venezuelans, 4 US or &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/11\/17\/haitians-receive-free-legal-assistance-through-the-national-public-defense-office\/\" 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":[290,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168557"}],"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=168557"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168621,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168557\/revisions\/168621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}