26502: Hermantin(News)Haitian rights activist to endorse presidential candidate (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: leonie hermantin <lhermantin@hotmail.com>


Posted on Mon, Feb. 06, 2006




Haitian rights activist to endorse presidential candidate

By JACQUELINE CHARLES
jcharles@MiamiHerald.com

On the eve of Tuesday's elections in Haiti, newly freed prisoner and Catholic 
priest Gérard Jean-Juste is expected to endorse former president René Preval 
today.

He will hold a press conference at 10:30 a.m., at the Wyndham Ft. Lauderdale 
Airport Hotel, 1870 Griffin Road, Ft. Lauderdale.

Jean-Juste was released from Jackson Memorial Hospital on Friday after having 
been granted a medical release from a Port-au-Prince prison the previous week. 
He is being treated for leukemia. Doctors said they are ''optimistic'' about 
his chances for recovery.

Like Preval, Jean-Juste is a longtime supporter of ousted Haitian president 
Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Preval is the leading candidate, according to polls, 
followed by businessman Charles Henri Baker among several other candidates.