{"id":479248,"date":"2025-08-19T19:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T23:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/senators-respond-to-amnesty-international-regarding-their-criticisms-of-the-penal-code\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T19:46:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T23:46:48","slug":"senators-respond-to-amnesty-international-regarding-their-criticisms-of-the-penal-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/senators-respond-to-amnesty-international-regarding-their-criticisms-of-the-penal-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators respond to Amnesty International regarding their criticisms of the Penal Code"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>Santo Domingo<\/strong>.\u2013 Senators from different blocs responded this Tuesday to the statements of Amnesty International, which described the approval of the new Penal Code of the Dominican Republic as a \u201cbacktrack in human rights.\u201d\n\nIn that sense, the senator for the Social Christian Reformist Party (<a href=\"https:\/\/prsc.org.do\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/prsc.org.do\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PRSC<\/a>), Ram\u00f3n Rogelio Genao, considered that the organization does not have \"moral quality\" to question, specifying that they approved a piece in accordance with the times.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\"They are going to keep criticizing, but it was a pending issue that the Congress of the Dominican Republic has already resolved,\" he specified upon leaving the session of this day.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nIn the same vein, the representative of San Crist\u00f3bal for the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM), Crist\u00f3bal Venerado, expressed himself, noting that the lower house has the right to approve what it considers.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>\u201cEste pa\u00eds es nuestro\u2026 \u00bfPor qu\u00e9 ellos no protestan con Estados Unidos? Con todo lo que hace y est\u00e1 haciendo el actual presidente, sin embargo meten sus cucharas aqu\u00ed. Nosotros somos dominicanos y somos libres\u201d, <\/p><cite>sostuvo.<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\nOn his part, legislator Santiago Zorrilla, also from the ruling party, suggested that Amnesty International should raise the points of the piece with which it disagrees so that they can be agreed upon, although he endorsed the statements of his colleagues.\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>You can also read: <a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/nacionales\/senadores-cesantia-no-modificada\/\">Senators assure severance will not be modified<\/a><\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\nIt is recalled that President Luis Abinader enacted the Penal Code on August 3, after being approved by the National Congress (bicameral) after years of debates.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo.\u2013 Senators from different blocs responded this Tuesday to the statements of Amnesty International, which described the approval of the new Penal Code of the Dominican Republic as a \u201cbacktrack in human rights.\u201d In that sense, the senator for the Social Christian Reformist Party (PRSC), Ram\u00f3n Rogelio Genao, considered that the organization does not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133543,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-479248","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Carolina Alvarez","author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c41b7d2513f99fce290b3781fa561c1b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479249,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479248\/revisions\/479249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}