Author
Aaron Lakoff
An interview with Haitian-Canadian activist and journalist Jean Saint-Vil about the arrest of Kevin Pina and Jean Ristil, both independent journalists in Port-au-Prince.
On Friday, September 9th, Haitian Police arrested two independent journalists, Kevin Pina (an American living in Haiti) and Jean Ristil (a local journalist).
Pina and Ristil were released a few days later, but their arrest represents a climate of fear that dominates in Haiti as the country moves closer to presidential elections in November - elections which many Haitians are calling illigitimate in the context of a coup d'etat led by Canada, the USA, and France.
Here we speak with Jean Saint-Vil, an activist and journalist of Haitian descent living in Ottawa. Saint-Vil addresses the details of the arrest, and the threat of media censorship in the period of elections.
Recorded on September 13, 2005.
Produced for the CKUT (90.3FM) Community News Collective in Montreal by Aaron Lakoff.
For non-profit use only.
For more information:
www.outofhaiti.ca
http://www.haitiaction.net/
www.zmag.org/lam/haitiwatch.cfm (Z net Haiti watch)
www.ckut.ca
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