Haiti

(RSF/IFEX) – The justice ministry announced on 30 March 2009 that Fritzner Fils-Aimé, the latest judge to be put in charge of the investigation into the April 2000 murder of Radio Haïti Inter director Jean Dominique, has been suspended for “serious acts of corruption.” Two other judicial officials – Joseph Descharles, the prosecutor of the […]

World Report 2009: Haiti

(RSF/IFEX) – On 16 December 2008, a court in the southeastern town of Jacmel convicted police officer Bastien Novembre of assaulting Radio Express reporter Fritzer Philogène and ordered him to pay Philogène 100,000 gourdes (approx. US$2,500) in damages. If Novembre, a member of the elite Departmental Unit for Maintaining Order (UDMO), fails to pay he […]

(RSF/IFEX) – One of Haiti’s best known journalists, Joseph Guyler C. Delva, was sentenced to a month in prison by a Port-au-Prince criminal court on 10 December 2008 for defaming Sen. Rudolph Boulos. Delva is still free pending the outcome of an appeal. Boulos sued Delva after he said Boulos had a US passport. This […]

(RSF/IFEX) – Justice has still not been fully rendered in the case of Brignol Lindor, a young radio journalist who was murdered in a particularly barbaric manner in the southwestern town of Petit-Goâve seven years ago, despite the fact that two individuals implicated in his murder were given life sentences in December 2007, Reporters Without […]

General Assembly 2008 Country Report: Haiti

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 16 July 2008 CPJ press release: HAITI: Spanish authorities restart Haiti murder investigation New York, July 16, 2008 – The Committee to Protect Journalists is encouraged by the decision of Spanish authorities to reactivate the investigation into the 2004 murder of Antena 3 correspondent Ricardo Ortega, who was fatally […]

(RSF/IFEX) – An official Haitian investigation has officially blamed the foreign interposition force present in Haiti after the ouster of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide on 29 February 2004 for the murder of Ricardo Ortega of the privately-owned Spanish TV channel Antena 3. The conclusions of Haitian judge Bernard Saint-Vil were released by the Spanish journalist’s parents, […]

Report to the Midyear Meeting 2008: Haiti

(CPJ/IFEX) – The following is a 9 April 2008 CPJ press release: Three reporters injured while covering mass protests in Haitian capital New York, April 9, 2008 – Two Haitian reporters were injured by rubber bullets while covering clashes between protesters and Haitian and U.N. forces in Port-au-Prince Tuesday, according to news reports and interviews. […]

Annual Report 2008: Haiti

World Report 2008: Haiti

(RSF/IFEX) – On 2 April 2008, the eve of the eighth anniversary of radio Haïti Inter director Jean Dominique’s murder, RSF said it was baffled by the failure to render justice in this case, especially as the existence of a clear political and judicial will to combat impunity in the past two years has resulted […]

Attacks on the Press in 2007: Haiti

Freedom of the Press 2007: Haiti

(RSF/IFEX) – RSF hopes the authorities will quickly arrest the seven people who were convicted in absentia on 23 January 2008 of the 2001 murder of Radio Echo 2000 journalist Brignol Lindor, so that light can be shed on every aspect of this crime. Two other people were already sentenced on 12 December 2007 to […]