Since the advent to power of the de facto Prime Minister Ariel HENRY, the security situation in the country has been deteriorating continuously and armed gangs are multiplying exponentially. Massacres, raids and armed attacks have been recorded everywhere, particularly in the departments of the West and Artibonite – the two (2) largest geographic departments in…
L’année judiciaire 2021-2022 s’est clôturée sur un bilan extrêmement maigre, les cours et tribunaux du pays n’ayant que très peu fonctionné en raison notamment des arrêts de travail du personnel judiciaire et de la situation sécuritaire préoccupante en Haïti. Ce ralentissement dans les travaux judiciaires a eu pour conséquences une augmentation exponentielle du nombre de…
Since April 2022, the Central Directorate of the Judicial Police (DCPJ) has been investigating a case of arms and ammunition trafficking, in which three (3) employees of the National Old Age Insurance Office (ONA), one (1) agent of the Haitian National Police (PNH) and one (1) employee of the Office of Work Accident, Sickness and…
Since the beginning of 2023, the National Human Rights Defense Network (RNDDH) has been concerned about the obvious and accelerated deterioration of the country’s overall security situation…
The National Human Rights Defense Network (RNDDH) learned that on January 20, 2023, Sherlson SANON was tried by the Criminal Court of Port-au-Prince sitting without the assistance of a jury, for the association of wrongdoers and slanderous denunciations. He was sentenced to one (1) year’s imprisonment. And, since he had already spent in prison the…
Selon des informations parvenues au Réseau National de Défense des Droits Humains (RNDDH), le 11 novembre 2022, le substitut commissaire du gouvernement près le Tribunal de première instance de Port-au-Prince, Maître Jeanty Souvenir, a tenté de libérer Amos Edmond et Signoly Edmond, deux (2) inculpés poursuivis pour assassinat alors que leur dossier est pendant par…
During the judicial year 2021-2022, the National Human Rights Defense Network (RNDDH) monitored the functioning of the courts and tribunals, and prisons of the country. In addition, meetings were held with heads of jurisdiction, prison officials, and prison administration authorities…
On July 14, 2022, weapons, and ammunition as well as other illicit objects presumably covered by the exemptions granted by the Haitian government to the Episcopal Church of Haiti, were seized at the customs of Port-au-Prince…
At the dawn of July 7, 2022, a new war broke out in Cité Soleil between the armed gangs belonging to the two (2) rival coalitions, G-9 an Fanmi e Alye and G-Pèp, led respectively by Jimmy CHERIZIER alias Barbecue and Gabriel JEAN PIERRE alias Ti Gabriel or Gabo…
On the night of July 6-7, 2021, President Jovenel MOÏSE was assassinated at his home in Pèlerin 5. The judicial police investigation opened around this case allowed the arrest and imprisonment of several people. They are awaiting the results of the judicial investigation against them for their involvement in this murder…