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Jailed priest in Haiti says he will run for president with ousted leader's support PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – A jailed Roman Catholic priest says he is waiting for the backing of deposed leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide before he decides to run for president in the fall.
The Rev. Gerard Jean-Juste, who has been in jail since July without charges, has emerged as the most prominent member of Aristide's Lavalas Family movement, which is still the most popular political faction in this troubled nation....
Posted: Thu, Aug 25, 2005 9:06am PDT
Haiti: UN mission condemns rash of lynchings in capital Facing a new show of disorder in Haiti, the United Nations police force in the strife-torn country has strongly condemned a rash of lynchings that has erupted in the capital, Port-au-Prince, over the past several weeks....
Posted: Thu, Aug 25, 2005 9:05am PDT
Congresswoman Waters says that Ambassador Foley was right about the government of Haiti Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Maxine Waters (CA-35) released a statement in response to Ambassador James B. Foley's comments regarding the interim government of Haiti. The Congresswoman's statement follows:...
Posted: Thu, Aug 25, 2005 9:01am PDT
We hear hope coming: Letter from Haitian National Penitentiary “In many ways, Black August, at least in the West, begins in Haiti. It is the blackest August possible – Revolution, and resultant liberation from bondage.” – Mumia Abu-Jamal...
Posted: Wed, Aug 24, 2005 6:50am PDT
International Tribunal on Haiti Each morning residents of Cite Soleil and other poor
neighborhoods, the neighborhoods which twice elected
President Jean Bertrand Aristide by huge margins, awake
to find bodies in the streets......
Posted: Tue, Aug 23, 2005 10:26am PDT
Haiti Under U.S. Pressure to Release Neptune by Aina Hunter
August 15th, 2005 6:41 PM...
Posted: Wed, Aug 17, 2005 6:50am PDT
Prominent Catholic priest, Rev. Gerard Jean-Juste, jailed in Haiti collapses in cell A prominent Catholic priest who has been jailed for nearly a month collapsed in his cell and had to receive medical treatment, his lawyer said Tuesday....
Posted: Wed, Aug 17, 2005 6:48am PDT
Haiti's leading political party condemns "sham" elections Fanmi Lavalas asks its members not to stand in line to be assassinated once more, as has occurred in Solino, Bel-Air, Cite Soleil, Grand Ravines, La Saline, Barriere Bouteille, etc....
Posted: Wed, Aug 17, 2005 6:46am PDT
Letter from Haitian National Penitentiary - We Hear Hope Coming [Fr. Gerard Jean-Juste, an outspoken advocate for
democracy and human rights, especially for the poor,
has been in prison in Haiti without written charges
since July 21, 2005. This message comes by way of
Bill Quigley a law professor at Loyola University New
Orleans in the US who is volunteering to assist Mario
Jospeh, his lead Haitian lawyer. Mr. Joseph is a
lawyer with BAI in Port au Prince. Bill is
volunteering with the Institute of Justice and
Democracy in Haiti.]...
Posted: Tue, Aug 16, 2005 11:03pm PDT
Haiti Under U.S. Pressure to Release Neptune But no mention of Jean-Juste or Annette August...
Posted: Tue, Aug 16, 2005 10:32am PDT
Letter to Miami Herald on Haiti Coverage The author of this memo is a former lawyer for the Aristide government of Haiti, it it he surveys a small sampling of recent atrocities committed by Haitian police and paramilitaries...
Posted: Tue, Aug 16, 2005 10:30am PDT
Haitian police provide machetes for attacks, UN bears responsibility Reports continue to come in of UN and Haitian police attacks on civilians; go to http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/08/1758961.php for an August 10 alert from the Haiti Action Committee, which includes chilling details of paramilitary thugs attacking unarmed civilians with machetes. Haitian media outlets report that the machetes were distributed out of a National Police car....
Posted: Mon, Aug 15, 2005 2:45pm PDT
Witnesses: Haiti Police Kill 5 in Raid Police stormed a volatile slum in the capital Wednesday in an attack on well-armed gangs that witnesses said left at least five people dead - including a pregnant woman and a teenage boy....
Posted: Thu, Aug 11, 2005 5:41am PDT
New massacre in Haiti-URGENT ACTION ALERT Urgent Action Alert - Act now to stop the killing...prevent new UN/police invasion of Cite Soleil
New Police Massacre of the Poor in Solino Quarter of Haitian Capital...
Posted: Wed, Aug 10, 2005 5:32pm PDT
Haiti to Postpone October Local Elections Local elections scheduled for this fall will be postponed until after legislative and presidential elections, Haitian officials said Tuesday....
Posted: Tue, Aug 9, 2005 8:21pm PDT
Media Freedoms Threatened in Haiti Haiti Support Group concerned about proposals that threaten to limit media freedom...
Posted: Tue, Aug 9, 2005 1:28pm PDT
Haiti: Ex-president Aristide's party signs up for elections Representatives of the Lavalas Family Party of former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti signed up Monday for elections scheduled for later this year.
Former legislators of the party went to the office of the Acting Electoral Council to sign up as the procedures required for the registration of the party, according to reports from Port-au-Prince, capital of Haiti....
Posted: Tue, Aug 9, 2005 1:26pm PDT
Hope for Father Jean-Juste! There are reports on the radio that
several political prisoners are going to be released soon. If
they do that it will be because of international pressure....
Posted: Thu, Aug 4, 2005 5:40pm PDT
Hell Freezes Over; Miami Herald Runs Good Haiti Election Piece Posted on Sat, Jul. 23, 2005
An election without voters...
Posted: Tue, Aug 2, 2005 3:31pm PDT
Roger Noriega, the Architect of the Rule of Terror in Haiti, Quits State Department Two years to the day of his July 29, 2003, confirmation, Roger F. Noriega, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, quit his job. Noriega was the chief architect of the coup d'etat against Haiti's internationally recognized democratically elected President and all 7,000 elected officials of Haiti....
Posted: Mon, Aug 1, 2005 6:32am PDT
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