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☆ Haiti rights group decries 'inhumane' conditions in police jails
  + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
June 1 (Reuters) - Detainees in overcrowded cells in Haitian police stations are living in "inhumane, degrading conditions", a human rights group RNDDH said Thursday, with police relying on makeshift prisons amid insecurity and a crippled judicial system. Six police stations that the group RNDDH visited in Haiti's Ouest Department showed "very alarming" conditions, it said, urging immediate action from the judicial system, which has struggled for years and is facing strikes by staff calling for better work conditions. The rights group said many of the detainees in the Port-au Prince station had received no visits, reducing their access to food and water normally brought by relatives. Haiti has seen an escalation in violence by armed gangs, driving a humanitarian crisis that has displaced tens of thousands of people. Reporting by Sarah Morland in Mexico City and Harold Isaac in Port-au-Prince; editing by Robert BirselOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
Persons: RNDDH, Sarah Morland, Harold Isaac, Robert Birsel Organizations: Haiti's Ouest, Prince, United Nations, Thomson Locations: Haitian, Haiti's, Port, au Prince, Haiti, Mexico City
☆ Haiti's deadly vigilante movement sees decline in gang violence, report says
  + stars: | 2023-05-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
The situation in the Caribbean country remains extremely volatile as heavily armed gangs continue to drive a humanitarian crisis that has displaced tens of thousands amid frequent kidnappings for ransom, gang rapes, tortures and murders. The vigilante movement, known as "Bwa Kale", began after residents of the capital Port-au-Prince lynched and set fire to over a dozen suspected gang members in the early morning of April 24. "Without making a value judgment, the 'Bwa Kale' movement has in just one month produced convincing, visible results; fear has changed sides," CARDH said in the report. Port-au-Prince, which CARDH estimates is now 60% controlled by armed gangs, sits in Haiti's Ouest Department where most of vigilante killings that it recorded - including lynchings, stonings, beatings and burnings - took place. Bwa Kale, CARDH said, likely emerged from the extreme cruelty inflicted by gangs, the ineffectiveness of the government, police and army and lack of international action.
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