"A journalist kidnapped earlier this month in Haiti was released last Fri. Feb. 17. His captors were demanding US$ 200,000 for his release.
Journalist Valéry Numa confirmed on his Twitter account that his colleague Jean Thony Lorthé was released after the ransom demanded that the presenter of the radio program 'Rafrechi Memwa,' broadcast in Creole on Radio Vision 2000, was paid.
Lorthé was kidnapped on Feb. 3 while going to a funeral with his brother and a female relative in Pétion Ville, a middle-class neighborhood northeast of the Haitian capital. The armed gang known as Ti Makak has been identified as the perpetrator of the kidnapping."
