U.N. Official Says Detainees Held Illegally
The head of the U.N. mission’s human rights unit in Haiti accused judicial officials and the interim government of illegally detaining most of the 4,000 people behind bars in the country.
Thierry Fagart said most of the inmates had not been formally charged or put on trial by the interim authorities who replaced ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide two years ago.
He said the decision by authorities in the impoverished Caribbean country to hold people “preventively” behind bars, for months or years, often without charges, was unacceptable.
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