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Monday, May 16, 2005
The Caribbean Community is criticising Haiti's interim government for failing to take "even the first step" in prosecuting former Prime Minister Yvon Neptune. In a statement issued from their headquarters in Georgetown, Guyana the grouping caled it a glaring example of a political detention.
Mr Neptune has been held close to 11 months without charge. The interim government, installed in March last year after the then President Jean Bertrand Aristide was exiled, accused Mr Neptune of organising political killings during the rebellion that led to the former Presidents departure.
And while the diplomatic pressure was being applied in Georgetown, Mr Neptune's daughter Maryvonne was making an appeal in New York for Haiti's neighbours to pressure the government into releasing him.The 58-year-old Mr Neptune has been on a hunger strike for more than three weeks. He has refused medical evacuation unless the Government gives him unconditional release. The interim Government describes Mr Neptune as being in "relatively good health", contradicting his lawyer and family members who say he is weak and nearing death.
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