“Day after day, journalists report on the violence crisis gripping Haiti, playing a dual role as both victims and witnesses on the ground. The Caribbean nation ranks as the country most likely to allow the murder of journalists to go unpunished, according to a 2024 report from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). In March, […]
"The Association of Haitian Journalists (AJH for its initials in Creole) reported Sunday the disappearance of two journalists in the city of Mirebalais, amid a growing climate of violence by armed gangs operating with impunity in the country. The International Federation of Journalists categorically repudiates the criminal violence against press workers and calls for their […]
"The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by the arson attacks on at least three TV and radio stations in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince over the last week, as escalating gang violence has caused widescale destruction. Between March 12 and 13, armed gangs from the Viv Ansanm (Living Together) coalition attacked independent stations Radio Télévision Caraïbes […]
"In recent hours, armed gangs attacked the Port-au-Prince facilities of Caribbean Radio and Television (RTVC), Haiti's largest media group, the network reported Thursday [March 13]. As RTCV reported, it had to abandon that facility a year ago in order to continue operating due to the gangs' actions. [...] Photos and videos circulating on social media […]
"Two reporters were killed and several were wounded Tuesday [Dec. 24, 2024] in a gang attack in Haiti on the reopening of Port-au-Prince's biggest public hospital, the country's online media association said. A police officer was also killed in the attack. Street gangs forced the closure of the General Hospital early this year and authorities […]
"The situation in Haiti continues to deteriorate at an alarming rate. Gang violence has reached unsustainable levels, endangering not only the lives of civilians but also the media's ability to report on the horrors in the country. [...] The press, essential to documenting the crisis and mobilizing international action, is now stymied by gang violence […]
"The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on CONATEL, Haiti’s telecommunications authority, to end its suspension of a popular evening show on Radio Mega, one of the country’s largest broadcast outlets, amid concerns the penalty was imposed without due process. [...] The suspension was imposed on November 22 after a wanted Haitian gang leader, Jimmy ‘Barbecue’ Cherizier, called into […]
"The Committee to Protect Journalists is disturbed by threats made against journalist Widlore Mérancourt by Haitian gang leader Jimmy 'Barbecue' Cherizier over his article about a Reuters journalist giving Cherizier gifts of balaclavas, alcohol, and cigarettes. 'We are very concerned about the threats made against AyiboPost’s editor-in-chief Widlore Mérancourt by the Haitian gang leader Jimmy 'Barbecue' […]
"Le Nouvelliste, Haiti’s oldest independent daily newspaper, has been around for 126 years, and the outlet’s owners are proud to have maintained its operations through the country’s intensifying challenges — from foreign occupation and devastating earthquakes to coups. But now Le Nouvelliste’s survival — and that of more independent media outlets in the country — […]
"The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the Thursday [June 27] decision by Carlos Hercule, Haiti’s Minister of Justice and Public Security, to place Ronald Richemond, the federal prosecutor of the city of Les Cayes, on leave until further notice. CPJ has reported on allegations linking Richemond to the murder of Haitian radio journalist Garry Tesse […]
"A former senator and a former mayor, along with five others, have been accused of murdering journalist Néhémie Joseph five years ago in a town in central Haiti. Judge Edwige Dorsainvil ordered pretrial detention for former legislator Rony Célestin, former mayor Lochard Laguerre, and Juste Chandou Clerjeune, Elionel Casséus, Angelina Fabiola Cameau, Douyon Rosevald, and […]
“On World Press Freedom Day, the Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression (SRFOE) of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) reiterates its concern for the grave situation of journalists in Haiti, a country that currently faces the greatest challenges to press freedom in the hemisphere. This Office urges the Presidential Transitional […]