26925: Hermantin(news)Lawyer says Jean-Juste possibly has cancer (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: leonie hermantin <lhermantin@hotmail.com>

Posted on  Fri, Dec. 16, 2005

HAITI

Latin American & Caribbean Briefs

> From Herald Wire Services

PORT-AU-PRINCE - Lawyer says Jean-Juste possibly has cancer

A jailed Catholic priest who had been considered a potential candidate for 
Haiti's presidency may have cancer and should be released to seek medical 
treatment in the United States, his lawyer said Thursday.

The Rev. Gerard Jean-Juste, a supporter of ousted Haitian President 
Jean-Bertrand Aristide, has declined an examination by government doctors 
because he doesn't trust them, attorney Bill Quigley told reporters outside the 
jailed priest's church in the capital.

Dr. John Carroll, a supporter who examined Jean-Juste in jail, said the priest 
has swelling in his neck and under his arms and an abnormal white blood cell 
count, which are possible indications of cancer or an infection.

''Every day that goes by, we are wasting time,'' Carroll said. ``If this is 
indeed cancer, his life is in danger.''