Weekly Report - 16 December 2003
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Police rapped for killings and torture
The Dominican police has taken a sharp rap on the knuckles by the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights (IIDH, in the Spanish acronym) - and a severe drubbing from the local rights NGO, Comisión Nacional de los Derechos Humanos (CNDH). The reason: excessive use of force, including `extralegal executions'.
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