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]
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