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Sunday, February 16, 2014
The London-based human rights group, Amnesty International, has called for a thorough investigation into the killing of Haitian human rights activist Daniel Dorsinvil, general coordinator of the Platform of Haitian Human Rights Organisations (POHDH) and his wife, Girldy Lareche.
According to Haitian human rights organisations, Daniel Dorsinvil was shot in the heart, while his wife was shot five times in the residential neighbourhood of Canap' Vert of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince.
The circumstances and the motives of the killings are unclear but Amnesty International said Haitian human rights organisations fear that it could be an assassination, "especially considering the manner in which the couple was killed and the senior position of the human rights activist within the organization."
Amnesty International said it was also concerned about the "degraded environment in which human rights defenders are operating in Haiti".
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