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12-06-2006, 05:40 PM
President Leonel Fernandez enacted the law for the Petition of Protection yesterday. This new law is designed to extend people's legal recourses against any attack on their basic rights. The new law, 437-06, says that "every person has the right to simple recourse known as a Petition of Protection." The first article of the law says that any person shall have access to such a petition in the face of any act, whether of commission or omission, on the part of any public authority or any individual, "that in real or imminent manner and with either arbitrary or illegal manner manifests, injures, restricts, alters or threatens the rights and guarantees explicitly or implicitly recognized by the Constitution regarding personal freedom that is under the protection of Habeas Corpus." President Fernandez said that the guarantee of basic human rights is one of the hallmarks of all organized societies.
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