Haitian Police murder a journalist in a police station and injure others

Journalist Haitian Romelo Vilcin has been murdered and several of his colleagues were injured this Sunday by members of the National Police in the courtyard of the Delmas 33 sector police station in Port-au-Prince, confirmed a union in the sector.

Vilcin and the other communicators went to the police station to express their solidarity with the Radio Zenith journalist, Robest Dimanche, detained and beaten by the Police.

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The Haitian Association of Online Media (AHML, in French), in a note made public, “strongly” condemned the murder of the journalist.

“We condemn these methods of operation of the public force that recall a sad period in our history,” expressed the entity in its social networks.

The journalist was a permanent correspondent for Radio Generation 80the station confirmed on its Facebook account.

Vilcin is the seventh journalist to be killed in Haiti in 2022. These journalists fell into the hands of the police themselves or of the armed gangs that control much of the Haitian capital.

The AHML regrets that in 2022 the list of murdered journalists has grown exponentially, and demands a judicial investigation into the cases of journalists murdered during the year.

According to a report this Sunday, presented at the 78th General Assembly of the Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) in Madrid, journalists in Haiti They carry out their work in a “dangerous and insecure setting” in which they face murder, kidnapping and assaults, and the media are under attack.

In its text, the IAPA denounces that Haitian journalists “have not been able to escape from the hell in which the country is plunged”, in the midst of the violence of the armed gangs, the institutional crisis and the protests against the government of the Prime Minister, ArielHenry.

On September 11, Frantzsen Charles of FS News and Tayson Lartigue of Tijèn Jounalis were killed while covering clashes between rival gangs in the dangerous neighborhood of Cité Soleil in Port-au-Prince, and their bodies were burned.

On October 24, the body of communicator and lawyer Tess Garry was found. She disappeared on October 18 when she left the town of Cavaillon, where her family resides, for the city of Les Cayes, where she worked at radio Lebon FM.

The family confirmed the identity of Garry, a harsh critic of the government and who had received death threats, whose face was disfigured and his body showed signs of violence.

Source: Elcomercio

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