[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

27293: Hermantin(News)JEAN-JUSTE CALLED POLITICAL PRISONER (fwd)






Leonie Hermantin


Posted on Thu, Jan. 19, 2006



Latin American briefs


From Miami Herald Wire Services

HAITI

JEAN-JUSTE CALLED POLITICAL PRISONER

PORT-AU-PRINCE -- A lawyer for the Rev. Gerard Jean-Juste on Wednesday called his client a ''political prisoner'' and said medical tests confirm the Roman Catholic priest, jailed for six months in connection with the slaying of a Haitian journalist, has leukemia.

Supporters of Jean-Juste have for months insisted that he has cancer and should be sent to the United States for treatment.

''He's a political prisoner,'' attorney William Quigley said at a news conference in front of Jean-Juste's former parish church in Delmas, a suburb of the capital, Port-au-Prince. ``If that isn't bad enough, he is deathly ill with leukemia.''

Jean-Juste, 59, was arrested in July on suspicion of involvement in the abduction and slaying of journalist Jacques Roche that month. He has denied the charges.