Haitian Press freedom is at risk after Aristide

Press freedom remains precarious  in Haiti five months after President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was  ousted in an armed revolt but the targets of attack and  intimidation have changed, a journalists' watchdog group said. Prior to Aristide's ouster, attacks on journalists or radio  stations were mainly directed at media considered to be  antagonistic toward Aristide, but now reporters viewed as  sympathetic to the former leader are at risk, the New  York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said. In a report issued this week, the watchdog said that at  least three pro-Aristide journalists have been illegally  detained, a media outlet shuttered, and another forced to  suspend news broadcasts. A number of journalists have gone into  hiding since Aristide fled on Feb. 29.  [more]