Haitian Rights Worker Slain
A human rights activist was found stabbed to death today in a jeep just outside Port-au-Prince, another human rights leader and a radio station said.
Lafontant Joseph was beaten before he was killed, private station Radio Metropole reported. Jean-Claude Bajeux, director of the Ecumenical Center for Human Rights, said the body was identified by the victim’s wife, Raymonde Joseph, director of the Haitian Woman’s Committee Against Torture. “This murder . . . means that the lives of all militants for human rights in Haiti are in danger,” Bajeux said.
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