Leader of Uprising Freed From Prison
A Haitian rebel leader who once led a paramilitary group accused of killing and torturing thousands of people has been released from prison, his lawyer said.
Louis-Jodel Chamblain, a leader of the armed uprising that ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in February 2004, was freed Thursday, attorney Stanley Gaston said. Chamblain was jailed in April 2004 on two counts of murder.
He was acquitted but kept in prison because of allegations that he masterminded a 1993 fire in a vast waterfront shantytown, Gaston said.
An appeals court ruled there were insufficient grounds to hold him, Gaston said.
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