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Haiti

Cité Soleil in mourning for murdered community radio station manager

Jean Liphète Nelson and four other people were driving in a Radio Boukman vehicle in Bois Neuf, a part of Cité Soleil, when they came under fire from four heavily armed individuals.

Haiti

Two Petit-Goâve radio journalists arbitrarily detained

Ernst Joseph and Wolf "Duralph" François have been held since 22 June 2011 and are facing defamation charges, which could result in jail sentences.

Haiti

Radio station destroyed in arson attack

The attack occurred after the station aired coverage of controversial legislative election results.

Haiti

State TV chief fires three journalists, brings criminal defamation suit against them

Eddy Jackson Alexis, Josias Pierre and Jacques Innocent are accused of "grave insubordination" and alleged inability to prevent their political affiliations from affecting their professional duties.

Haiti

Radio journalist gunned down in Port-au-Prince, motive unclear

Jean Richard Louis-Charles, a journalist working for Radio Kiskeya was fatally shot in the head near the capital's central Champs-de-Mars square.

Haiti

Revival of journalism lags behind media reconstruction, says RSF

The earthquake highlighted the importance of the role the media play in humanitarian disasters, not only as news sources but also as vehicles for rallying and uniting the population, RSF noted.

Haiti

RSF urges supporters of political factions to refrain from turning media into hostages

RSF is concerned about the dangers for Haitian and foreign journalists in the turmoil that has shaken the country since the widely disputed general election.

Haiti / United States

US marines seize Haitian photographer's camera

Homère Cardichon was covering a demonstration by disgruntled residents outside the US embassy.

Haiti / United States

IAPA protests international journalists' eviction from airport

According to IAPA, the measure by the U.S. military was implemented abruptly and without appropriate alternatives provided for the journalists to continue reporting.

Haiti

Radio stations getting back on the air in Port-au-Prince

With the help of foreign technicians and media outlets, a total of 20 radio stations were functioning a week after the 12 January quake.

Haiti

Three radio stations still operating after Port-au-Prince earthquake

The 12 January earthquake severely damaged the premises of several media outlets.

Haiti

Provincial radio station Idéale FM ordered reopened following forced closure

Reporters Without Borders hails justice minister Jean-Joseph Exumé's decision to remove the seals that were placed over the entrance to Idéale FM

Haiti

Idéale FM radio station closed for refusing to reveal sources

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders condemns the 8 April 2009 closure of Idéale FM, a privately-owned radio station based in the north-western town of Port-de-Paix, by local prosecutor Jean Frédéric Bénêche for allegedly "obstructing justice." The prosecutor asked the station to identity its sources for a report about Alain Désir, an alleged drug trafficker who is being held in Florida. When the station refused, the prosecutor ordered its closure and had an official seal put on the entrance.

Haiti

Judge in Jean Dominique murder case suspended for corruption

(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 southwestern town of Jérémie, and Patterson Dorval, the deputy prosecutor of the southwestern town of Petit-Goâve - were suspended at the same time for similar reasons. The charges against them are to be heard by the Higher Council for the Judiciary.

Haiti

Policeman ordered to pay damages to journalist he assaulted

(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 could go to prison for one year. A report by his superiors also recommended disciplinary measures.

Haiti

Journalist sentenced to one-month prison term for allegedly defaming senator

(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 would preclude him from being a senator as the 1987 constitution bans dual nationality.

Haiti

Seven years after Lindor murder convicted killers still at large

(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 Borders said.

Spain / Haiti

Spanish authorities reopen investigation into 2004 murder of Antena 3 correspondent Ricardo Ortega

(CPJ/IFEX) - The following is a 16 July 2008 CPJ press release:

Haiti / Spain / United States

Official investigation blames American troops for 2004 death of journalist Ricardo Ortega

(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.

Haiti

Three reporters injured while covering mass protests in capital

(CPJ/IFEX) - The following is a 9 April 2008 CPJ press release:

Haiti

Eight years after journalist Jean Dominique's murder, RSF baffled by failure to render justice

(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 in convictions in two other cases of journalists' murders.

Haiti

Victory over impunity "within reach" in Lindor murder, says RSF, after seven are convicted in absentia

(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 life imprisonment for the murder.

Haiti

Two gang members get life sentences for journalist's murder; six other suspects still at large

(RSF/IFEX) - RSF hails the 12 December 2007 outcome of a two-day trial before a court of assizes in the southern town of Petit-Goâve, in which two members of a local militia known as Domi nan Bwa were given life sentences for the murder of Radio Echo 2000 journalist Brignol Lindor on 3 December 2001.

Haiti

Commissioner returns to country, accuses senator and police commissioner of blocking investigation into journalist's murder

(RSF/IFEX) - Joseph Guyler C. Delva, the president of an independent commission investigating the murders of journalists who was forced by repeated death threats to leave the country, returned to Port-au-Prince on 25 November 2007.

Haiti

Two suspects arrested for Gonaïves radio station manager's murder

(RSF/IFEX) - Another gang member, Bernard Joseph, was arrested on 20 November 2007 in connection with the 16 May murder of Alix Joseph, manager and programme host of Radio-Télé Provinciale, in the northwestern city of Gonaïves.

Haiti

Head of commission probing murders of journalists flees country after being threatened and followed

(RSF/IFEX) - RSF is concerned that a leading Haitian journalist, Joseph Guyler C. Delva, had to leave the country on 9 November 2007, after getting repeated death threats since 25 October and then being followed.

Haiti

Four arrested in murder of journalist Brignol Lindor as trial nears

(RSF/IFEX) - RSF has welcomed the arrest of four individuals suspected of killing radio journalist Brignol Lindor, of Radio Echo 2000, on the eve of a trial set to begin on 3 December 2007, six years to the day after he was hacked to death in the southwestern town of Petit-Goâve. Six other suspects ordered arrested early this month remain at large. RSF regretted such last-minute moves and warned against a hasty trial that might gloss over the responsibility of certain people for Brignol's death.

Haiti

Prominent journalist receives death threats

(CPJ/IFEX) - The following is a 31 October 2007 CPJ press release:

Haiti

Police arrest another gang member suspected in journalist Jacques Roche's murder

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders welcomes the arrest of Wensley Boshomme, a gang member also known as "Zachary Occeda" and "Bertold," who is suspected of participating in the July 2005 murder of Jacques Roche, the head of the arts and culture section of the daily "Le Matin".

Haiti

President lends support to independent investigative committee, pledges justice in murders of journalists

(CPJ/IFEX) - The following is a 27 September 2007 CPJ press release:

Haiti

Two men get life for journalist Jacques Roche's murder

(RSF/IFEX) - RSF welcomes the life sentences handed down by a Port-au-Prince court on 30 August 2007 against two men, Alby Joseph and Chéry Beaubrun, for the abduction and murder of Jacques Roche, the head of the "Le Matin" newspaper's arts and culture pages. Roche was kidnapped on 10 July 2005 and found dead four days later.

Haiti

Committee will oversee investigations of journalist murders

(CPJ/IFEX) - The following is a 13 August 2007 CPJ press release:

Haiti

Second radio journalist murdered in a week

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has strongly deplored the murder of well-known actor and radio presenter François Latour, whose body was found on 23 May 2007 in Port-au-Prince a day after he was kidnapped by armed men on his way home.

Haiti

Radio journalist Alix Joseph shot to death

(CPJ/IFEX) - The following is an 18 May 2007 CPJ press release:

Haiti

Activist Johnson Edouard, killed in Gonaïves, had not worked for "Haïti Progrès" for past three years

(RSF/IFEX) - The staff of the weekly newspaper "Haïti Progrès" have said that Johnson Edouard, who was killed on the night of 12 April 2007 in the north-western city of Gonaïves, had not worked for the newspaper for about three years. The theory that he was murdered in connection with his political activism therefore seems more likely. Edouard was the regional representative of Fanmi Lavalas, former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's party.

Haiti

Second journalist in three months murdered

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has expressed shock over the brutal murder of the correspondent of the weekly "Haïti Progrès", Johnson Edouard, in the northwestern city of Gonaïves on 12 April 2007.

Haiti

Seven years of impunity for killers of journalist Jean Dominique

(RSF/IFEX) - On the seventh anniversary of radio Haïti Inter owner and manager Jean Dominique's murder on 3 April 2000 in Port-au-Prince, Reporters Without Borders notes with regret that the investigation that was re-launched two years ago has still not yielded any results and impunity continues to prevail in this case.

Haiti

Gang members gun down freelance photographer at his home

(RSF/IFEX) - RSF was horrified to learn that freelance photographer Jean-Rémy Badio was murdered in the southern Port-au-Prince district of Martissant on the afternoon of 19 January 2007. He was reportedly shot dead in his home by members of a gang he had photographed a few days before.

Haiti

Cassation court rejects request by family for civil party status in journalist Brignol Lindor's murder case

(RSF/IFEX) - The following is a 30 November 2006 RSF letter to Haitian President René Préval, and Port-au-Prince Public Prosecutor Claudy Gassant:

Haiti

UN mission apologises for assault on photographer

(RSF/IFEX) - The UN stabilisation force in Haiti (Minustah) apologised on 8 November 2006 to the daily "Le Nouvelliste", whose photographer, François Louis, was assaulted five days earlier by UN peacekeeping troops during a demonstration at Martissant, in the suburbs of the capital, Port-au-Prince.

Haiti

UN peacekeepers assault "Le Nouvelliste" photographer

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders condemned an assault by UN forces in Haiti on photographer François Louis, of the daily "Le Nouvelliste" as he was covering a demonstration in Port-au-Prince by supporters of former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, in which one person died.

Haiti

No sign of justice a year after journalist Jacques Roche was murdered

(RSF/IFEX) - A year after "Le Matin" journalist Jacques Roche was kidnapped in Port-au-Prince on 10 July 2005 and was found dead four days later, Reporters Without Borders has voiced anger and bitterness that the investigation has ground to a halt and the suspects who were arrested have not been brought to trial.

Haiti

On the sixth anniversary of Jean Dominique's murder, Haiti's new president urged to reopen the case

(RSF/IFEX) - On the eve of the sixth anniversary of Radio Haïti Inter director and political commentator Jean Dominique's murder on 3 April 2000 in Port-au-Prince, Reporters Without Borders has added its voice to all the tributes being paid to Dominique and urged President-elect René Préval, who will be sworn in on 14 May 2006, to give a solemn undertaking to reopen the case.

Haiti

Authorities urged to resume investigation on fourth anniversary of Brignol Lindor's murder

(RSF/IFEX) - The following is a 1 December 2005 RSF press release:

Haiti

RSF open letter to presidential candidates calls for break with culture of impunity

(RSF/IFEX) - The following is a 10 October 2005 RSF press release:

Haiti

Kidnapped journalist's body found

(CPJ/IFEX) - The following is a CPJ press release:

Haiti

Journalist kidnapped in Port-au-Prince

(RSF/IFEX) - RSF has voiced concern over the 10 July 2005 kidnapping of Jacques Roche, editor of the daily "Le Matin"'s arts and culture section. His abductors have threatened to kill him unless a US$250,000 ransom is paid.

Haiti

Journalist threatened with kidnapping and forced to leave the country

(RSF/IFEX) - RSF has expressed concern over the plight of Nancy Roc, host of the Radio Métropole weekly programme "Metropolis", who was forced to leave the country on 16 June 2005 after being threatened with kidnapping.

Haiti

CPJ calls for investigation into reporter's death

(CPJ/IFEX) - The following is a 7 April 2005 CPJ press release:

Haiti

Miragoâne residents arrest one of Brignol Lindor's alleged murderers

(RSF/IFEX) - RSF has welcomed the arrest of Joubert St-Just, one of the alleged killers of Radio Echo 2000 presenter Brignol Lindor, who was hacked to death with machetes on 3 December 2001 in the southern town of Petit-Goâve. St-Just was arrested on 30 March 2005 by residents in the nearby town of Miragoâne.

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