In a rare case of Senate censure, the Dominican upper house has issued a public rebuke for one of its members, the senator from San Pedro de Macoris, Alejandro Williams, for “his inappropriate actions” against three Dominican journalists, including the editor in chief of Listin Diario. In an 8-point declaration, the Senate described Williams’ actions as “attacks on press freedom”, when he tried to find the sources of information for stories written by Maria Isabel Soldevila of Listin Diario, Margarita Cordero and Norma Shepard about alleged problems that the usually-absent senator had pending with Medicare investigators in the United States.<\/p>\n
Williams runs dental clinics in New York and when stories appeared about some irregularities linked to his clinics he sent henchmen “disguised as FBI agents” to threaten the journalists. The Senate ordered the Note of Censure to be published in all the nation’s newspapers. Williams attended just one of the Senate commission’s 9 sessions, accompanied by his lawyer and refusing to comment on any of the accusations in the newspaper articles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In a rare case of Senate censure, the Dominican upper house has issued a public rebuke for one of its members, the senator from San Pedro de Macoris, Alejandro Williams, for “his inappropriate actions” against three Dominican journalists, including the editor in chief of Listin Diario. In an 8-point declaration, the Senate described Williams’ actions … <\/p>\n