United States criticizes Human Rights in the DR

The 2011 Report of Human Rights Practices published by the US Department of State yesterday, Thursday 24 May, claims that there are extra judicial executions, maltreatment and other abuses of suspects and a lack of respect of the law in the Dominican Republic.

The report said that there is still violence and discrimination against women, with domestic abuse, rapes and murders.

It also highlighted the serious discrimination against Haitian immigrants and their descendants, especially what it describes as the retrograde step of the new immigration laws that leave people who have lived here for generations stateless.

The US also condemned corruption, arbitrary arrests, prison conditions and the persecution of human rights groups, as reported in Listin Diario.

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