{"id":161736,"date":"2026-09-17T10:22:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T14:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/merits-trial-against-angel-martinez-for-the-lawsuit-filed-by-faride-raful\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T10:22:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T14:22:43","slug":"merits-trial-against-angel-martinez-for-the-lawsuit-filed-by-faride-raful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/national\/merits-trial-against-angel-martinez-for-the-lawsuit-filed-by-faride-raful\/","title":{"rendered":"Merits trial against \u00c1ngel Mart\u00ednez for the lawsuit filed by Faride Raful"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Merits trial against \u00c1ngel Mart\u00ednez for defamation to begin this Thursday<\/h2>\n\n<p>The Second Criminal Chamber of the National District is scheduled to resume this Thursday the trial against communicator \u00c1ngel Mart\u00ednez. The legal process arises from a defamation and slander lawsuit filed by the Minister of Interior and Police, Faride Raful, who seeks justice regarding the dissemination of information that, in her view, violates her reputation and honor.<\/p>\n\n<p>The court seeks to continue the hearing that was previously postponed due to the non-appearance of the defendant&#8217;s defense attorney, Julio C\u00e9sar Paredes. In this proceeding, the alleged violation of articles 21 and 22 of Law 53-07 on High-Tech Crimes and Offenses will be analyzed.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lawsuit details<\/h2>\n\n<p>In addition to the criminal action, the official has filed as a civil party and has requested compensation of 50 million Dominican pesos. Raful maintains that the statements issued by Mart\u00ednez through his digital platforms have caused significant damage to her public image as a servant of the State.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The court is preparing to evaluate the evidence and arguments presented by the parties involved in this case of high public relevance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Communicator&#8217;s judicial record<\/h2>\n\n<p>This is not the first judicial process that \u00c1ngel Mart\u00ednez has faced for similar situations. His recent record includes several convictions:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Milagros De Camps Case:<\/strong> On May 28th, the same court sentenced him to six months in prison and the payment of 10 million pesos for damages.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sergio Moya Case:<\/strong> The communicator received a suspended sentence of three months in prison and the payment of 2 million pesos after being found guilty of defaming the deputy of the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Roberto Fulcar Case:<\/strong> There is an open file filed by the political leader, who also became a civil party for the dissemination of content he qualifies as false and defamatory on the defendant&#8217;s YouTube channel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>The development of this judicial session in the National District will be key to determining Mart\u00ednez&#8217;s legal responsibilities regarding the multiple accusations weighing on his communicational practice.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merits trial against \u00c1ngel Mart\u00ednez for defamation to begin this Thursday The Second Criminal Chamber of the National District is scheduled to resume this Thursday the trial against communicator \u00c1ngel Mart\u00ednez. The legal process arises from a defamation and slander lawsuit filed by the Minister of Interior and Police, Faride Raful, who seeks justice regarding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":161737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12809],"tags":[13891,2540,13427,1000],"class_list":{"0":"post-161736","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"tag-angel-martinez","9":"tag-defamation","10":"tag-faride-raful","11":"tag-trial"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}