PORT AU PRINCE, CMC—The media group SOS Journalists on Friday “strongly condemned” what it termed the angle of the Transitional Presidential Council (CPT) and the federal government of Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé in “abandoning” journalist Jocelyn Justin, who is because of endure surgical procedure in Cuba.
“As soon as once more, and sadly, the authorities have failed to satisfy their commitments, together with the one made very just lately, to supply the ailing journalist with lodging in Cuba, meals, and medical bills important for his restoration,” SOS Journalists mentioned in a press release.
Justin’s decrease jaw was shattered by bullets fired by gangs throughout violent incidents on December 24, 2024, close to the Normal Hospital. The assault left three folks lifeless, together with two journalists, and 10 others injured.
Reporters With out Borders (RSF) has since known as for pressing motion by the CPT, with worldwide assist, to guard journalists and the best to info.
SOS Journalistes says it doesn’t perceive the “habits of the manager authorities, who look like appearing in dangerous religion within the case of Justin, who finds himself in a really delicate state of affairs in Cuba.
“Just some days in the past, the federal government assured SOS Journalistes that all the pieces vital could be finished to make sure the journalist obtained all the help his case required,” the media group mentioned, noting that the injured journalist wants lower than US$2,000 to cowl the price of the rest of his medical keep in Cuba.
“The federal government can’t declare that it lacks the means to fulfill this requirement,” SOS Journalistes mentioned, including that it “regrets having to revisit this subject, which we thought had been resolved.
“SOS Journalists calls on the Transitional Presidential Council and the federal government of Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé to honor their commitments and act instantly to treatment this drawback, permitting the journalist to obtain remedy, meals, and the acquisition of the remedy he wants,” it mentioned.
RSF mentioned that journalism in Haiti is beset by an unprecedented disaster, marked by excessive prison violence that had intensified since 2022 when no less than six journalists had been killed in reference to their work.
