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04-24-2009, 03:00 PM
Today's El Caribe editorial focuses on a proposed change to the Constitution that would prohibit media from covering court cases until the final sentence is issued. Veteran journalist Radhames Gomez Pepin, a former president of the Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) says that, "this change would not be passed unless we were crazy or shameless". Deputy Pelegrin Castillo gave the warning about the threat against freedom of the press and free speech. Another veteran journalist, Rafael Molina Morillo, says that the proposal clashes with the principle that penal court cases need to be transparent and public. El Caribe writes that the proposal by deputy Eugenio Cedeno is so unheard of that General Prosecutor Radhames Jimenez has suggested that the members of the Revisory Assembly review and discard it.
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