{"id":476837,"date":"2025-07-30T11:53:46","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T15:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/they-gave-me-soup-with-hair-and-made-me-mop-alexis-medina-denounces-mistreatment-in-prison\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T11:53:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T15:53:46","slug":"they-gave-me-soup-with-hair-and-made-me-mop-alexis-medina-denounces-mistreatment-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/dominican-news\/justice\/they-gave-me-soup-with-hair-and-made-me-mop-alexis-medina-denounces-mistreatment-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThey gave me soup with hair and made me mop\u201d: Alexis Medina denounces mistreatment in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"Santo Domingo.<\/strong> \u2013 Alexis Medina S\u00e1nchez<\/strong>, the main defendant in the Antipulpo case, lashed out this Wednesday against the Dominican judicial system, claiming that he was a victim of mistreatment while serving preventive detention. During his final statements before the Second Collegiate Tribunal of the National District, Medina stated that in prison he was forced to perform cleaning tasks and that they even served him food in unsanitary conditions.\n\n\n

\u201cThey made me mop the floor and gave me soup with hair,\u201d<\/strong> he declared, although he clarified that he didn’t mind doing those tasks, since, according to him, he is a hardworking man. \u201cBecause they were elderly people, I mopped the floor for them,\u201d he explained, referring to other inmates with whom he shared a cell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may be interested in: <\/strong>MP: Alexis Medina operated like a “real octopus”<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nIn his defense, he vehemently denied being the ringleader of an alleged corruption network that had embezzled the State of almost five billion pesos. He said that he only met several of the accused as a result of the judicial process.\n\nMedina also responded to those who have dismissed him for his past as a hairdresser. He admitted that, at 17, he cut his friends’ hair without charging, but stressed that he has been an entrepreneur since he was young. “Since my youth what I have done is work. I was an exporter of tires and batteries as a businessman,” he maintained.\n\nThe accused, brother of former President Danilo Medina, faces charges along with other defendants for his alleged participation in a structure that would have used its closeness to power to obtain millionaire contracts irregularly during the past government.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Santo Domingo. \u2013 Alexis Medina S\u00e1nchez, the main defendant in the Antipulpo case, lashed out this Wednesday against the Dominican judicial system, claiming that he was a victim of mistreatment while serving preventive detention. During his final statements before the Second Collegiate Tribunal of the National District, Medina stated that in prison he was forced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":476838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[36952],"tags":[18075],"class_list":["post-476837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-justice","tag-alexis-medina"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-202V","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/64326988184f0.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Justice"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/64326988184f0.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}