"Violent attacks and threats waged by a coalition of militarized gangs are among the many risks Haitian journalists face to report the news amid intensifying insecurity in the country’s capital city, Port-au-Prince. Yet as a rotating cast of transitional leaders hope to restore order across the Caribbean nation, journalists say a lack of transparency and hostility from government authorities have left many media outlets and their reporters without the protections they desperately need to safely do their jobs.
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Media outlets have filed complaints that the interim government has displayed a lack of transparency in its efforts to hold the country together; this includes the failure to publish its budget — passed in secret — as well as the controversial hiring of foreign military contractors who have used armed drones to battle gangs.
Since [President Jovenel] Moïse’s [2021] assassination plunged the country into lawlessness and impunity, CPJ has documented the killings of 12 journalists and the destruction of at least six radio stations — mostly at the hands of the gangs."
